Wow how long will the y drag this crap out.and at what expense to the tax payers who in a poll for CNN didnt even care and were discusted at the price tag of these hearings.If the government is so worried about setting a good example for the children stop doing so much corruption and the covering it up.People need to stop comparing steroids to heroin the not even close. Alot of this message comes from Mr Hoten,I am sorry his son hung himself but there was no evidence of steroids playing a role none. Congress let him testify because they used him to push the issue. His son was taking several anti depressants which are proven to cause teens to commit suicide. Lets go after them , yeah right , the pharmcutical compomponies have to much power and money. PEDs have been out since 1939 and alot of atheletes have used especially baseball players in the 50s, 60s 70s and 80s. And when they werent using PEDS they were using speed an amphetimines. So do we start questioning some of the old time greats and threatening thier families for evidence? I think they should launce a investigation into any offical who is involved in these trials and try and get any dirt on them by any means to make sure they are worthy enough to even be pointing fingers at anyone.
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The Steroids Trial Of The Century
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I got more mail on my Bonds columns than on any subject I've ever written about. Some of it was hateful, a lot of it was nasty, and many quite reasonable folks expressed bafflement as to how I could reach that conclusion when there was no proof beyond a shadow of a doubt. That's where folks confuse sportswriters with juries and courts of law. Concern yourself with courtroom principles like "beyond a reasonable doubt" and most anything can seem a muddle.
There have been a lot of steroids under the bridge since then. Folks read or at least read about "Game of Shadows," the brilliant book chronicling Bonds's crossover to the dark side. Folks read or read about the Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball's attempt to elucidate the steroids epidemic. Folks watched Mark McGwire and Roger Clemens bumble in testimony before Congress. And just last week folks heard Alex Rodriguez deliver his own version of cheating by virtue of ignorance, delivered not behind closed doors, but in front of microphones, so we got to hear just how ridiculous it sounded.
We now have the evidence of the failed drug tests as well as the drug calendars and ledgers that the judge has booted from the proceedings. They can toss evidence from the courtroom but they can't scrub it from our minds. And there's the loyal trainer. Who believes that Anderson won't testify because the truth would help Bonds? The truth seems obvious to anyone willing to open his eyes. But I also understand that this truth is not necessarily incompatible with acquittal.
We may just have to live with that. Regardless of the trial's outcome, Bonds has shamed himself and endured considerable punishment in the one realm that I suspect matters to him most—his legacy, his once lofty perch in the game's pantheon. Look at him and you no longer see the greatest slugger in baseball history. Now he is eternally B*arry B*onds.
© 2009
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