Barry Bonds Poll Question 1: Is what Bonds did worse than what Mike Vick did?

[OmahaBlueDog]

In terms of the severity of the offense, how (in your mind) does Bobds' conviction stack up to the conviction of Mike Vick?

[rufus dog]

1. did it to himself

And B.S. on the integrity of the game! That was compromised long before Bonds went on his binge.

Vick impacted animals by his behavior.

[Demoiselle]

2. I agree with Rufus! (nt)

[uppityperson]

3. He did it to himself, not to others, so not as bad. Lying to the Grand Jury however, that was very

wrong. I cannot compare that to animal abuse since they are very different.

[Avalux]

4. Nope. What he does to his body, I don't care. What Vick did to dogs, unforgiveable. n/t

[CBGLuthier]

5. While I despise what Vick did, is there any valid reason for bringing him up again

Mind you I hate the SOB an awful lot and all but I do not see any reason to discuss Vick in relation to Bonds.

Other than an excuse to trash Vick some more.

[uppityperson]

6. Lying the the grand jury is what he's up for. Not for using steroids but for lying under oath.

[Johonny]

11. people don't seem to get that

:)

For all that money it seems like he should have been able to afford a good lawyer to get him through that grand jury without creating a legal nightmare for him.

[OmahaBlueDog]

9. Both athletes. Both federal criminals. Both convicted for a charge other than their best known crime

There are a lot of commonalities. I'm just wondering who will get the harsher sentence in the end.

[Modern_Matthew]

7. Steroid use in baseball had no place in our courts system, anyway. Don't care if he lied. nt

[Skidmore]

8. Why is it so darned important for people to scrounge around

to try to find reasons for these sports guys to get away with breaking laws? I just don't get it.

[flvegan]

10. I just thank the Gods of justice that so much time and money was spent

prosecuting an athlete for using steroids. Bad money thrown after worse.

[uppityperson]

13. This last bit was for lying to the grand jury, not for drug use

[flvegan]

14. Lying about drug use.

That's how the whole stupid thing started.

[uppityperson]

17. It doesn't matter, you aren't supposed to lie to a grand jury. I know how it started and

think at the most he should have just been not allowed to play again. But lying to a grand jury is him piling stupidity upon illegality.

[madokie]

12. Sure it was. He stole from all of us, lying mofo anyway

his home run record should be expunged

[rufus dog]

15. then who would hold the record!

Another lying MOFO!

The owners and commissioner screwed the pooch by ignoring steroid use. Of course the McGuire/Sosa drama was good for gate receipts and TV revenue. Go look back at guys who were hitting 50 home runs in those years, it was a friggen joke.

[pintobean]

16. Can't you get Snooki into this poll somehow?

[spanone]

18. of course not, but it's still some bad shit

[Cali_Democrat]

19. So when are the bankers gonna face the law?

I don't give a shit about Barry Bonds.

[Motown_Johnny]

20. Lying to Congress? Hell, Senators do that all the time.

Barry should just say that he never meant for any of those to be factual statements.