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The most interesting thing to us about the Barry Bonds news out Thursday isn't the news itself, that federal prosecutors cut the number of felony charges against the former slugger faces from 11 to five.

Bonds has pleaded not guilty.

Frankly, we were most surprised by the realization that, yes, it looks like this prosecution is actually going to trial next month.

Why does this surprise us? Because we’d mostly forgotten about the whole saga. The case — a perjury prosecution — is heading into its fourth year. (The initial indictment against Bonds came down in 2007, back when he was still posting sick numbers for the San Francisco Giants.)

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