Baseball's all-time home run king, Barry Bonds is on trial in San Francisco on perjury charges stemming from a 2003 testimony he gave to a grand jury investigating steroid use among major league baseball players. Frankly speaking, it does not take a genius to see from pictures of Bonds as his career progressed, along with the sudden rise in his numbers after age 35, that he almost certainly was a big-time steroid user, as well as a likely user of HGH. The evidence is damming, and the likelihood of a conviction is quite high. With that as a backdrop, the question that must be asked is this: Once he is free after a jail sentence, does MLB prohibit him from the Hall Of Fame ballot? There is no provision for banning a drug user from the Hall Of Fame, unlike gamblers (read Pete Rose), so there is quite a high likelihood of Barry Bonds going from Prison to Cooperstown, and this is what makes no sense about this whole situation: Barry Bonds almost certainly would have been in the Hall, even if he had never touched the stuff, as, assuming his stats were inflated perhaps 20% by PEDs, he still would have hit at least 600 home runs, making him a first-ballot inductee, but his ego may well have made him throw it all away.
A POTENTIAL NIGHTMARE SCENARIO FOR THE CBC
There has been much speculation about the CBC's second-round playoff schedule, since the Canadian election is scheduled for Monday May 2nd. While a potential "Heidi" situation exists for the network a few days earlier. The second round of the playoffs begins Aprl 28. Assuming the Vancouver Canucks win their first-round series(which I believe they will), they will host Game one of their second-round series at 10 P.M. that night. The nightmare for CBC is this: Multiple Overtime. In such a scenario,
Game One could still be going, when the clock is approaching 4 A.M. EDT April 29th, when CBC, unlike Versus in the U.S.(Who hopefully would have the good sense to, if anything simulcast a U.S. local broadcast from a RSN that would not be affected by this), is planning to begin coverage of the Royal Wedding. So, if you are CBC, what do you do? Pull the plug on a triple-OT playoff game(the "Heidi" scenario), farm it out to Bold? (similar to what NBC did during the playoffs some years ago, where they farmed out an OT to Versus, so they could show a Preakness pre-race show), or begin showing Will and Kate's big show on Bold, praying that someone scores quickly, so HNIC can sign off, and CBC news take over? WHAT DO YOU DO?
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Bonds: Thanks for saying something that I have been thinking about, but just have not had the heart to say. What a waste of his legacy. Regardless of whether or not he is convicted and goes to prison, he will have ample time to think about his choice.
ReplyDeleteNHL/CBC: Given that 4 a.m. ET is six hours after the opening faceoff, a pre-emption is highly unlikely. However, if there is a conflict, the last option is the most likely in my eyes. As for Versus, it will pick up the opponent's feed or send its own crew to the game.