Barry Bonds Defense

I predicted that the defense of Barry Bonds would consist of attacking the attackers and playing the race card. It only took one day for me to be proven right. Bonds' lawyer, Michael Rains begins the attack on the credibility on the sources of information for the new Game of Shadows book:

Although most of the authors' supposed 200 or so "sources" for this book remain anonymous, we know and understand that one of the most prominent sources is a woman who previously attempted to extort Barry for money, and who, after that failed, told Geraldo Rivera that she never saw Barry take illegal or performance-enhancing drugs, but explained that her source of knowledge supposedly came from conversations she had with him -- conversations she intended to report in her soon-to-be published (and yet to be published) book.

It will be pretty tough to taint the credibility of all 200 sources but it won't be from lack of trying by Bonds' defense team. Then Willy McCovey plays the race card:

"Knowing what I have gone through in sports, there are always those little, you know, racial overtones," said McCovey, a black man who started his career in the segregated south of the 1950s and broke into major league ball with the Giants.

"I don't think it would be this big a deal if McGwire was still playing and was in the same shoes chasing that record," he said of McGwire, who is white. "I don't think they would be spending all this time to dig all this dirt up on him."

It should be noted that McCovey is described as a senior advisor to Bonds. I'm betting that's a paid position and would it be a surprise that people on Bonds' payroll are defending him? It should also be noted that when McGwire testified under oath to Congress - he took the 5th instead of lying. As I keep hammering home - it will be the lying to the grand jury that nails Bonds instead of the actual use of banned substances.