On Tuesday afternoon, the Associated Press released the breaking news that baseball’s all-time homerun leader Barry Bonds has been indicted on 15 felony counts. This is a separate indictment from the one filed late last year, for which Bonds was indicted on 4 counts of “perjury” and 1 count of “obstruction of justice”. However both (indictments) have a common theme: Bonds allegedly lying (to a grand jury) about “knowingly” using performance-enhancing drugs. Odds-making kings at BodogLife.com have prepared the odds every National League team has of winning the 2008 NL Pennant.

The March 13th (2008) indictment, is based on 14 (felony) counts of Bonds allegedly giving false declarations to a grand jury back in 2003 and 1 obstruction of justice (felony) count. Bond’s former team the San Francisco Giants’ odds of winning the NL Pennant are 100/1.

Barry Bonds hasn’t personally responded to the indictment, but his (lead) attorney, Allen Ruby, indicated to the media, he will be entering a “not guilty” plea on Bonds’ behalf: “Barry Bonds is innocent."

Bonds, is scheduled to appear in court for a mandatory hearing June 6, but it is unclear if he'll be required to enter a plea, at that time.

The 43 year-old homerun king is currently unemployed. After the end of last season, the San Francisco Giants refused to offer Barry a contract, and they both parted ways.

To the day, Barry is a free agent looking for a club in need of a DH. But thus far, not one team seems willing, to deal with the circus that follows the guy that holds sports most celebrated award.

Is this really the end of Barry Bonds and his legacy?

Well, It’s hard to say. Simply because the one man, who holds all the pieces to this puzzle, is Barry Bonds' former trainer (and alleged drug supplier), Greg Anderson.

Anderson has refused on several occasions to cooperate with the government’s investigation into the steroid use in MLB, and specifically, with Bonds’ steroid use. For his reluctance to tell the truth, Anderson has been held in “contempt of court” and, thus, imprisoned for long periods of time. Still to the day, the U.S. government has yet to crack Greg Anderson, as he remains as quiet as a church mouse.

When the BALCO (Bay Area Laboratories CO) investigation broke out, just a few years back, Anderson was the most prominent name, which linked (and tainted) baseball to steroids. Anderson most demanded item was a very specific one -a scientific breakthrough indeed- simply called “The Clear”.

The Clear was the most popular steroids used by the MLB players at the time. Because it served as a steroid, mixed with a masking agent, it became very appealing and thus, very available to the players (courtesy of BALCO and Greg Anderson). At that time, the famous Clear was completely invisible to baseball’s drug regimen, so it is impossible to truly know, what percentage of the players were actually on it.

It is easy to infer, that BALCO (located in Northern California, near San Francisco) undoubtedly opened not only Pandora’s box, but also everyone’s eyes, to the truth about baseball, and its long history with performance-enhancing drugs.

Here are the odds brought to you by BodogLife.com every team in the NL has of winning the 2008 NL Pennant:Arizona Diamondbacks: 7/2

Atlanta Braves: 14/1

Chicago Cubs: 9/2  

Cincinnati Reds: 50/1

Colorado Rockies: 25/1

Florida Marlins: 14/1

Houston Astros: 20/1

Los Angeles Dodgers: 9/1

Milwaukee Brewers: 11/1

New York Mets: 11/4 

Philadelphia Phillies: 6/1

Pittsburgh Pirates: 80/1 

San Diego Padres: 25/1

St. Louis Cardinals: 9/1

Washington Nationals: 100/1       

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