Would You Go To Jail For Your Best Buddy?

SAN FRANCISCO — Greg Anderson, the personal trainer who has long stuck by his childhood friend Barry Bonds, indicated to a federal judge yet again Tuesday that he would not testify in Bonds’s perjury trial.

On Tuesday, Bonds pleaded not guilty to four counts of knowingly lying to a grand jury in 2003.

Anderson, who prosecutors say gave Bonds steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, nodded when Judge Susan Illston of United States District Court asked him if he planned to refuse to testify in the trial, which begins March 21. “He’s nodding yes,” Anderson’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, said as Anderson stood silent next to him. “He’s taking the not testifying to the nth degree.” Some in the courtroom laughed at Geragos’s comment. But not Bonds, who sat hushed at the defense table. At times, he raised his eyebrows, which wrinkled his brow, and slowly rubbed his hands. But as the judge told Anderson she would jail him for the length of the trial — which is likely to last more than two weeks — Bonds barely flinched. On Tuesday, Bonds pleaded not guilty to four counts of knowingly lying to a grand jury in 2003 in connection with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative steroids case, and not guilty to one count of obstruction of justice. Anderson, who spent time in prison for steroids distribution, also spent more than a year in jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating Bonds. 

Pretty simple question if you ask me and the answer is no. No way would I go to prison for my best friend. Absolutely not. I've seen Locked Up on MSNBC and I want no part in that. Nobody will be diddling about in my anus if I have anything to say about it. I'll take a bullet or a punch or get the shit beat out of me for my best friend but I'm not going to jail. You're in trouble by the law and you want me to help you out? Sorry. In the words of Colin Cowherd, "That's a you problem." I'd even die for my best friend because that means I don't have to suffer but going to pound town is a no fucking way for me. But you know Greg Anderson is coming out of this thing with a hefty paycheck from Bonds if he refuses to testify so that turns things up a notch. Barry probably told him if he sits on his ass in jail for a month then he'll come out $5 million bones richer. Would you go to jail for a month if it meant you would have $5 million sitting your bank account after? That's like asking if I'd rather have Donahue shit in my mouth everyday for a year or get stabbed once a day by my sworn enemy(so all of you) for the entire month of August and I had to go to the beach once a day so sand got in my cuts and I couldn't use Neosporin. Just a total lose-lose.


P.S. Doesn't Greg Anderson look like a guy who can get "things" done for you.