Baseball Talk

The highly-anticipated Barry Bonds perjury trial is finally underway and there has been already been some interesting aspects.

According to a story on ESPN.com, Bond’s former friend and business partner testified on Wednesday that he watched Bonds walk into his master bedroom with his trainer Greg Anderson, who had a syringe and needle in hand.

Steve Hoskins also testified that he never saw Anderson inject Bonds with steroids, but he had recorded conversations between Bonds and Anderson as they were talking about performance-enhancing drugs.

The story says:

“Much of the recording was first released by the prosecution in February 2009. At one point, Anderson is heard discussing what the government alleges are designer steroids he supplied to Bonds.”

Barry Bonds, baseball's home run king, is on trial for lying to a jury about taking PED's. (Photo by: http://www.popstarsplus.com/sports_barrybonds.htm)

Hoskins then was hammered by the defendant’s lawyers for giving answers that were inconsistent to answers he gave in a previous testimony several years ago. He claimed that there were errors in both the grand jury testimony and a government report on an April 2005 meeting he held with prosecutors.

The defense went on to question Hoskins’ credibility and they accused him of trying to extort baseball’s home run king.

The story ends by Hoskins saying that he only wanted what was best for his former friend, Bonds, and that he would never want to hurt him saying:

“‘I’d never want to get Mr. Bonds in trouble in any way, shape or form,” he said, calling [Bonds] “a very good friend” and “a very good person.”

“I was the one trying to stop him from taking steroids because I thought it was bad for him,” Hoskins said.”