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Barry Bonds*, former outfielder for the San Francisco Giants, was finally indicted yesterday for lying to a federal grand jury. Bonds is accused of lying to the grand jury about his steroid use during his baseball career and his ties to the Balco lab that produced the steroids he used. Finally, we will be done with Bonds the baseball player, instead we can get to see who Bonds really is, a lying, selfish, egotistical cheat.

The only problem with the Bonds indictment is that it came a few months too late. If only the charges had been brought before Bonds had a chance to break Hank Aaron’s home run record. Now, technically, Bonds is the all time home run champ. While that may be the case for now, these charges against Bonds coupled with any other information about his continuous cheating while chasing Aaron’s record, should knock this lying good for nothing self right out of baseball and its record books.  

It is truly a shame for baseball and its fans to have one of its biggest records held by someone that clearly cheated their way to success. Bonds is certainly not alone in using performance enhancements but he did continuously lie about using them even in the face of overwhelming evidence that he did. With this indictment it is clear that Major League Baseball needs to continue to ratchet up its testing of players so a problem like this never against tarnishes America’s pastime. Good riddance to Bonds. May he lose his records and may he be banned from baseball forever.

(*embarrassment to baseball)