Barry Bonds: Missing Tape Resurfaces as Bonds' Perjury Trail Nears End

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As Barry Bonds' perjury trial was supposed to wrap up, something unexpected happened.

A tape—believed to have been lost—magically resurfaced. And now the government claims that they have even more incriminating evidence against Bonds, baseball's home run king, who denies knowingly using steroids during his career.

The New York Times' Juliet Macur writes:

"Prosecutors said that a long-lost microcassette was unexpectedly and inexplicably found Sunday and contained a secretly taped conversation that would corroborate the testimony of one of its witnesses. They said it could become a pivotal piece of evidence in the trial.
"But Bonds’s lawyers said the tape would never go into evidence, and the judge expressed doubts about the admissibility of parts she had heard because they were barely audible."

A former prosecution witness, Steve Hoskins, claimed earlier during the trial that he had repeated conversations with Bonds' orthopedic surgeon Arthur Ting about Bonds' steroid use—an allegation that Ting denied.

The sudden emergence of this tape makes for a very interesting conclusion to the trial.

Which version of the story is true: Ting's or Hoskin's?

We know the story of Bonds' historic run to catch baseball's home run records, both single-season and all-time. But there's very little we know about what happened in the background.

Did he really have no idea what he was doing? Or, did he just think his personal accomplishments would supercede his abrasive personality and endear him to baseball fans everywhere?

Something tells me, Barry's greed and giant ego never thought it would ever catch up to him.

As the trial nears an end, we could be in for a very entertaining climax.

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