Barry Bonds Is Probably Guilty Of Being A Prick  The prosecution
in the case, which begins jury selection today, really wants to
make this trial about that. But it's not. It's not about
steroids either, actually. It's a perjury case, to determine
whether he was lying when he said he didn't take illegal things,
which might not have been illegal at the time.  The case, which
has already played out in the court of public opinion for years,
fed by witch hunts and show hearings and a series of seemingly
coordinated leaks to The New York Times, finally gets down to
business on Monday. But not without some pre-trial attempts to
show that Bonds is an asshole, and to weed out any jurors who
agree.  Yesterday Judge Susan Illston of the US District Court
in San Francisco barred prosectors from introducing into
evidence nine years of angry voicemail messages Bonds left for
then-mistress Kimberly Bell. Their flimsy excuse was that it
could show signs of "roid rage," which isn't even a
scientifically defined "thing." More