So Barry Bonds has been lying all this time, huh? Well, that's a shock. Next, you're going to tell me that O.J. really did kill his wife.

Lots of people have found and will continue to find reasons to get outraged by this whole saga. On one side you have the Bonds-haters who are lusting for blood and wonder why it took this long to get an indictment and why they couldn't have done it before he broke Hank Aaron's record. On the other side, you have those inexplicable Bonds supporters who refer to this as a "witch hunt".

I'm somewhere in the middle on this, I guess. I long ago reconciled that fact that people cheat in every game where there is an opportunity to do so. The only game I can think of that might be "uncheatable" is rock-paper-scissors (unless you try to bring dynamite into the equation, I guess). Baseball has a long tradition of cheating cheaters. Heck, several of them are in the Hall of Fame.

The whole "did he or didn't he use steroids" debate has been settled for quite a while in the minds of any right-thinking individual. Bonds used, and so did Mark McGwire, and so did Sammy Sosa, and so did lots of other guys who helped "revive" the game of baseball with their chemically-enhanced moon shots. In a 1999 episode of The Simpsons, Mark McGwire said a line that applies well to the collective mindset of the baseball establishment of the time: "Do you want to know the terrifying truth? Or do you want to see me sock a few dingers!"

So the issue here isn't whether or not Bonds used steroids, and based on the indictment, it's likely we'll be able to prove that he knew there were steroids in the substances he received from BALCO Labs. Now, there are only two questions that remain to be answered.

What do the Feds know? And how did they get this information?

Bonds' former personal trainer, Greg Anderson, has been in jail since August 2006 for refusing to testify against Bonds, but he was released hours after the perjury and obstruction of justice charges against Bonds were announced. Did Anderson finally squawk?

This is going to be the intriguing part of this upcoming trial. As Bonds' lawyer John Burris said, "I'm curious what evidence they have now, they didn't have before." You and me both, John.

Forget about the home run record and the asterisk and the Hall of Fame. If Barry Bonds committed perjury on Dec. 4, 2003 when he claimed that he was unaware that Greg Anderson was supplying him with steroids, then he committed a federal offence and he'll be facing jail time. Think about that. Pampered, privileged, prima-donna Barry Bonds... in prison. Hey, if the writer's strike goes on long enough, I smell reality series!

Pass the popcorn. This is going to be good drama.

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