Bonds physique photos included at trial

[El Supremo]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Longtime San Francisco Giants clubhouse manager Mike Murphy will testify about Barry Bonds’ hat size, a Nike employee will discuss the slugger’s feet and prosecutors will show the jury photographs of Bonds’ growing physique during his career, court papers filed Monday showed.

In a witness list filed Monday, prosecutors outlined their planned evidence, most of which has been made public since a grand jury started meeting more than seven years ago. The prosecution said former San Francisco Giants teammate Bobby Estalella, and former Bonds girlfriend Kimberly Bell will testify Bonds told them he used steroids.

In addition, they said former Bonds assistant Steve Hoskins will testify he learned of Bonds’ steroids use from both Bonds and personal trainer Greg Anderson, who is refusing to testify. And Kathy Hoskins, Bonds’ former personal shopper, will testify she saw Bonds being injected by Anderson.

Bonds has been indicted on four counts of making false statements to a grand jury and one count of obstruction of justice for telling the grand jury he never took steroids or human growth hormone from Anderson, took only vitamins from Anderson and was injected only by physicians. He has pleaded not guilty....

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-bonds-steroids

[Auggie]

1. These prosecutors are getting creative...

Is Mike Murphy testifying against his will? As the article says, he's been on the payroll for 53 years-- 31 as the Giants clubhouse manager. He's been tight with all the players and now is being asked to nail one of them.

This article ran in the Sunday S.F. Chronicle, mostly about Murphy's friendship with Willie Mays (LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/07/SPDJ1I1ENG.DTL), but there's this one very ironic part that's un-seemingly and incredibly timely:

• CHRONICLE: Willie (Mays), Barry looked up to you. You helped him quite a bit, right there in Murph's clubhouse.

• Mays: That was one of those things Bobby (Barry's dad) asked me to do. Whenever Barry needs something, he'll pick up the phone. He knows where to find me. He's a good kid. He's not as bad as he pretends to be. He talks mean. But if you back up, he'll go forward. If you say certain things the right way, he'll calm down and talk to you.

• CHRONICLE: Lot of controversy followed that man, especially with steroids. Lot of media in your clubhouse for all different reasons.

• Murphy: We still take care of everybody.

---------------

Huh...