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Bonds Found Guilty; What About Selig & Union??

Let me start out by saying that I believe that Barry Bonds used steroids.  I also believe that many others in major league baseball were using steroids or other performance enhancing drugs.  I also believe that Major League Baseball and the Major League Players Association knew that players were using steroids and performance enhancing drugs and did nothing about it until BALCO. 

So I'm not sure what the guilty verdict on an obstruction of justice count means when looking at the Bonds case.  The jury was deadlocked on the perjury charges.  If Bonds is guilty of obstruction of justice how is he not guilty of perjury???  One account I read was that the jurors were not sure that Bonds knew that he was being injected with steroids. Hmmm.

It's gotten to the point for me that I really don't care anymore.  Bonds biggest mistake was his arrogance in that he wouldn't just come clean.  The same can be said for Roger Clemens and that's why the feds are going after them so hard.  Both men could have avoided all of this by just telling the truth.

The bigger issue, and this has been the bigger issue for me all along, is that baseball and the union knew that this was going on and did nothing about it.  In fact, I contend that baseball and the union was quite happy with the results: a home run chase by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, more home runs and higher scoring games.  Remember there was a fan backlash prior to the home run chase because of the the 1994 - 1995 baseball strike.

What irks me is that MLB and the Union are not being held accountable.  They could have put an end to all of this right away but didn't.  At best, they both just looked the other way.  At worst, they were willing accomplices.  Do I condone what Bonds, Giambi, McGwire, ARod, Big Papi, Manny, (that's right Red Sox fans...maybe Schilling too) etc. did??  No!!! But MLB and the union knew and they have gotten off scott free.  A big joke and a disgrace!!!