Re: Barry Bonds indicted
Some of the outright dishonesty in the media is shocking to me.
Let's talk Mark Fainara-Bada-Bing-Bang.....who today on ESPN wrote this excerpt, surmising that the allegation of a failed steroid test in Nov 2000 is "previously undisclosed new information":
[ QUOTE ]
'...The item that jumped from the 10-page indictment was the revelation of "positive tests for the presence of steroids ...'
'.. informed him about a drug test he had taken in November 2000 that showed he tested positive for testosterone.....
...the previously undisclosed evidence was the first glimpse of the material the government has been secretly compiling against Bonds for almost four years...
[/ QUOTE ]
Yet, almost two years ago, in the book HE WROTE....is this excerpt:
[ QUOTE ]
Bonds underwent one such screening on Nov. 18, 2000, according to BALCO documents. Quest Diagnostics ran an anabolic steroid panel on Bonds.
After the 2001 season, on Nov. 12, LabOne, another drug-testing lab, did another workup on Bonds's testosterone levels. LabOne reported a level of 11.2, which was considered abnormally high for a man of Bonds's age.
[/ QUOTE ]
Is Bada-Bing-Bang really that forgetful about what he wrote in his own book....or is he being purposefully misleading in order to create the false impression that this indictment introduces "new" allegations?
Like Will Carroll wrote in his piece on Deadspin...they need you to believe this indictment presents something new, even though it doesn't....because they couldn't get Greg to talk, and they had no choice here but to go ahead with the indictment rather than to dismiss the GJ with nothing.
The chance of a 4th GJ with a new AG taking over was slim. This is the govt's hail mary to retrieve the sunk cost of the past 4 years wasted chasing their white whale.
4 counts...
4 pitches...
4 balls...
Bonds walks.
|