Choose your allusion-- the sword of Damocles finally striking, the chickens coming home to roost, karma being an ill-tempered bitch-- but Barry Lamar is now up against it for breaking the law, breaking the law. Personally, we were a bit stunned that it happened coming as it did years after the actual case, but we're cavemen-- we fell on some ice and was later thawed by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses us! ...

You know who doesn't want to Spare The Air anymore? BART. Disturbed by the uptick in crime as a result of the all-day free rides (on that last Friday of Sparing The Air, the BART police went on twice as many calls as usual), the BART police chief has proposed that they go back to just making BART free during commute hours on extra hot and smoggy days. Matier and Ross had some lurid crimes......

Looks like the Google guys can dish out the privacy-invasion but can't take it -- they've sued the guy who was designing their super-secret Boeing 767 for violating a confidentiality agreement. After the designer was fired, he went to the press and revealed, among other things, that the Google founders wanted to install hammocks and a California king-sized bed in the plane, and that the project had been described as "a party plane." High fashion......

And the next shoe dropped. After yesterday’s big scoop revealing Jason Giambi’s Grand Jury testimony, the Chronicle, which has been all Woodward and Bernstein about the BALCO trial, got an even bigger scoop today- the testimony of one Barry Lamar Bonds, aka the guy who is breaking every record in baseball. In the testimony, Bonds said that he took the steroids “the cream” and “the clear” for a bit in 2003 but did not know......

For a trial that's supposed to be leak proof, this whole BALCO mess is leaking all over the place. In response to charges of misconduct brought on by details of the investigation leaking, , the court leaked documents on Friday detailing an interview Federal Agents had with Barry Bonds' personal trainer Greg Anderson ("Barry Bonds' Personal Trainer Gary Anderson", of course, pretty much being his new name). In the report, Anderson named several Giants' players......

After this weekend, it's going to get harder for us Giants' fans to try and live in our shiny, happy denial land in regards to Barry Bonds and this whole BALCO mess. While most of the Chronicle's stories claiming that Barry was taking steroids were "leaked" documents from a supposedly leak-proof Grand Jury, Saturday's Chron blared out to the world that they actually have a tape from 2003 purportedly of Barry's trainer and friend,......

Gary Sheffield dishes on BALCO and Barry Bonds....