Please, please, please let it be true

Of course, the All-Star game is the biggest news for baseball fans today, so this isn't getting quite the attention it might on any other day. But I hope it's true.

According to a report in the New York Daily News, several sources within Major League Baseball expect a San Francisco grand jury to indict Giants slugger Barry Bonds, possibly even as early as next week.

The senior sources said they have no inside information, but expect Bonds to be indicted before the grand jury that has been hearing evidence against him expires within the next couple of weeks.

Several sources within MLB said they found plenty of damning information about Bonds in their own investigation, launched secretly a year before commissioner Bud Selig appointed former U.S. Senator George Mitchell in March to head an MLB inquiry into steroid use.

Bonds faces possible indictment for perjury and tax evasion. When he appeared before a grand jury in December 2003, Bonds testified that he did not knowingly take performance-enhancing drugs.

Anybody who knows me in real life knows how much I hate the San Francisco Giants. And inside of that hatred is my hatred of Barry Bonds, which burns with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. And it's not just because he's a cheater. He's also an asshole, and (allegedly) a racist to boot.

And while I doubt muscle-head will ever spend a single day in prison (plea bargain), perhaps this will be enough to shame him into retirement before he can break Hank Aaron's career home run record, and maybe, just maybe keep him out of Cooperstown. Oh yeah.