Gammons truly does love the game, so I’ve read and heard. Kudos to him for bringing positive and deserved recognition to OBMs body of work. When one has a near death experience and realizes that every day thereafter is a gift, one tends to be a little more open-minded, a little more honest, and a little bit more willing to see the other side of a well reasoned, thought-out, and equally passionate frame of reference.

I believe it is called acceptance. Something that too many in msm are not willing to be.

I stand by my statement however that the type of agents that are raiding the home of Greg Anderson’s mother in law en masse (20+) in the middle of the night in an effort to coerce testimony against Bonds is thuggery hiding behind a badge. The ridiculously continued excessive show of force with cops dressed up as ninja soldiers and dime store Rambos on unarmed, non resistant civilians is just too silly for words.

You didn’t really think I was going to let a nice guy like you get the last word in, did you?

Again, good to see you back.

Kent, the USAO certainly didn’t have to indict for perjury. Who was it, Schools(?) did the indictment right before he left for Alabama. I read so many places things like “the feds wouldn’t indict unless they were sure they would get a conviction” and “they wouldnt’ have indicted if Greg Anderson was all they had”, etc.
That was always false. They chose to burn that money for the purposes stated by +mia of ruining Bonds’ reputation and career because they were jealous of him being the best at something. Something they are not. And because they could. It’s not their money. They were ruled by their FEELINGS as you state but it wasn’t at being shown up. It’s just been hatred and jealousy. The whole BALCO case has always been about getting Barry Bonds.

Many people have realized the ridiculousness of this faux scandal and the Bonds = Perjury story for some time now. John’s just expressed the lunacy of it all from about Day 1.

Play ball, please ?

+mia: Rail on if you wish, but most of the Special Agents that I know are the people that you’d want in those positions. (The prosecutors? Eh, they’re lawyers; most are okay though.) I’d guess that the USAO in SF is none to happy with this dog of a case, the backlash it’s starting to produce, and especially the money, time and resources that it has (dare I say) squandered. That’s just my opinion. I mean hell, how much time and money were spent to prosecute the Enron or Worldcom folks? You get my point

After all these years, somebody throws me a bone. You’ve been here from the beginning, so you know that the accolades I’ve just received are for writing the same things I wrote years ago. Well, better late then never.

Thanks everyone.

Of course the government does not care if they actually convict Bonds of perjury. Novitsky and the rest of the out of control law enforcement and judicial prosecutors have already ruined his reputation, his career, and for many of us, any remaining respect we had for an out of control federal government that wastes trillions and an equally out control mainstream media that slanders at will. And. The the lesson is well-learned. Of course the grand jury system will mess with you. Nothing like an onerous overbearing judiciary to earn respect from the citizenary. Fear is a great tool.