"Sources"
within major league baseball believe that Barry Bonds will be
indicted for perjury and tax evasion by a San Francisco grand jury
when it disbands in the next few weeks, according to
a report in the
New York Daily News. I hope they're correct.
Where they're not correct is when they write:
"A Bonds
indictment, coming just two months after he passed Babe Ruth on the
all-time home run list, would be a public relations calamity for
the game."
On the
contrary. A Bonds indictment is like a disinfectant, albeit tardy
and incomplete, for the game. And on the more cynical side, it may
spare Bud Selig and his minions from their true public relations
calamity: having to congratulate this loathsome figure on breaking
the game's all-time homerun record, when most everyone watching
would know the achievement was a fraud.
