Barry Bonds

The Barry Bonds trial did not start up all that long ago, though it certainly seems like it has went on forever.

It officially began on March 21 and finally saw its conclusion today.

As we all know now, Barry Bonds was found guilty of obstruction of justice and the three charges of perjury were all declared as a mistrial after jurors were unable to agree on a verdict.

Now that the trial is over, what did we all learn?

Major League Baseball all-time home run leader and former San Diego Giants left fielder Barry Bonds has been found guilty of obstructing justice, while the jury could not agree on three other charges in a verdict announced Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco.

Since the extent of obstruction of justice ranges so widely, Bonds' penalty could be anything from a simple fine to a 10-year prison sentence.

The verdict is in: Barry Bonds is guilty.

While the jury of public opinion has determined that Bonds was guilty of knowingly taking steroids for years and lied about it, a federal court couldn’t seem to determine the same thing.

The biggest issue in baseball is the usage of steroids. Bud Selig and the rest of the league have become more wish-washy and flip-floppy than any politician on the face of the planet. Implementing a ban on performance enhancing drugs is only a fraction of what the league needs to do to keep PEDs out of Major League Baseball.

One of the great characteristics about the game of baseball is that families enjoy it together, whether a father taking his son to his first big league game, or fathers, sons and brothers sharing baseball on the diamond.

A father's pride.  A son's rise to stardom in his father's footsteps.  Brothers bonding on the diamond.  These timeless themes have captivated baseball fans for generations.

Here now is a ranking of the greatest baseball families ever.

Mad Magazine should feature Manny Ramirez on their covers. He’s one of the original Boston Red Sox Idiots. And, now we have confirmation he is crazy as a Looney Toon.

Imagine having been banned once for 50 games for using a forbidden substance, and then to use the proverbial putative something again.

Imagine being so stupid that you are caught once more with hormones, steroids or the creeping crud inside you.

Manny Ramirez has announced his retirement from major league baseball, rather than continue with the league's drug use program.

The slugger is just the most recent in a litany of elite hitters who have seen their reputations tarnished by the use of performance-enhancing drugs. How great could they have been without?

Manny will go down as one of the greatest pure hitters of his generation, and will never sniff the Hall of Fame because "great" wasn't enough.

Barry Bonds awaits his fate in a federal courthouse in San Francisco for allegedly lying about knowingly using steroids.

While professional athletes are looked very highly upon by the American public, they often times do not act accordingly.  From being violent, to being just plain rude, these athletes often times are really nasty people. Here are 25 of the meanest players in MLB history.                         

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While baseball is known as America's pastime, the sport is no stranger to controversy.

Facing on-and-off-field scandals since before the dinosaurs walked the earth, Major League Baseball continues to battle its tarnished reputation.

In a sport that requires class and natural skill, rather technique, many players have tried to cheat the system.

From the most prolific home-run hitters in history using steroids during their primes to players purposely losing games to win bets, baseball has faced arguably the most controversy of any professional sport.