Once upon a time, Frank Deford was one of my favorite writers. I wonder now if I was just naive. Was he always this full of himself?
…. But let’s look on the bright side. The Report does give Barry Bonds more esteemed company as a cheat. Right? Unfortunately for him, though, it removes the one excuse his supporters offered — that he was picked on for racial reasons. Now that Roger Clemens, a white man who is to pitching in this era what Bonds has been to hitting — has been fingered and dishonored, Bonds, as a black man, can’t claim that he has been discriminated against.
Ummm…. Frank? Bonds has been targeted by sportswriters and talking heads for four years now. Bonds was investigated for most of that time by multiple government agencies, (at an estimated cost of over $10 million dollars), and has had his name and reputation dragged through the mud during what should have been the most exciting and proud years of his life by assholes like you. All this has happened while the men who supposedly gave Bonds the PED’s he “cheated” with have denied doing so the entire time.
Now, Clemens simply says he didn’t use PED’s and you and all of your “journalist” friends are to falling all over yourselves to make sure we know that the man responsible for these accusations is a shady character. He is a “weasel,” a “sewer rat,” a “disgruntled former employee,” and, of course, testified under duress. Oh, you don’t believe him? Please. Thanks for the good work. I’ve got friends who think it’s unfair if someone uses steroids to get in shape to be a carpenter because of all the bullshit you’ve been spewing for half a decade, and now you wanna go after Clemens, after ignoring a decades worth of results that suggested he might have more going for him than just a heavy-duty workout regimen. Bonds’ head is bigger? Great investigative journalism.
McNamee says Clemens used PED’s, and that he helped him do it, and is immediately labeled an unreliable witness with a bone to pick with Clemens, while Greg Anderson –who says that he did not provide Bonds with PED’s, and never saw him use them– has been accused of waiting for some big pay-off. Hmmmmm…. something doesn’t add up here. That’s right, Mr. Save the Children. It’s you and your sportswriter friends that have a credibility problem right now.
You can’t tell us one trainer is a liar for saying that his guy used PED’s –based on nothing at all, by the way, no interviews, no first-hand knowledge, NOTHING– and the other trainer is a liar for denying that his guy did –this time because a couple of your friends wrote a book that contradicts his direct, under oath, testimony. You can’t have it both ways. Either you believe the trainers, or you don’t.
If McNamee is lying when he outs your pal, and Greg Anderson and Victor Conte are lying when they say the bad guy didn’t…. Well, even a blowhard like you can see where I’m going here. You’re being selective, and if race isn’t the reason why, well, then; what is?
Lessee, then… I know people who sell drugs so I use them, if they say I don’t use them it’s more likely I do, if I don’t have credibility it means I’m not a racist, there is complete rational balance between the media reaction to Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, if I refer to a person (who’s name we all might know) as a “black man” and another as a “white man” there is no race issue, if I don’t cheat on my wife I can be believed about almost everything, if I do cheat on my wife I can be believed about almost nothing, and Jose Canseco would be a reliable authority on these matters.
Is this a summary of your post, Maestroh? Not really much of a rebuttal.
Nope. Go back to second grade and do two things: 1) learn how to read; 2) learn that name calling is the foolish tactic of a moron who has nothing substantive to say.
Bonds and Clemens are both guilty and we all know it. Next question?
Ummm…. Frank? Bonds has been targeted by sportswriters and talking heads for four years now. Bonds was investigated for most of that time by multiple government agencies, (at an estimated cost of over $10 million dollars), and has had his name and reputation dragged through the mud during what should have been the most exciting and proud years of his life by assholes like you. All this has happened while the men who supposedly gave Bonds the PED’s he “cheated” with have denied doing so the entire time.
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Bonds was investigated because his trainer had ties to a laboratory that was juicing every athlete housed on the West Coast. If you have a similar story with Clemens – including his grand jury testimony – please tell us.
Now, Clemens simply says he didn’t use PED’s and you and all of your “journalist” friends are to falling all over yourselves to make sure we know that the man responsible for these accusations is a shady character. He is a “weasel,” a “sewer rat,” a “disgruntled former employee,” and, of course, testified under duress. Oh, you don’t believe him? Please. Thanks for the good work. I’ve got friends who think it’s unfair if someone uses steroids to get in shape to be a carpenter because of all the bullshit you’ve been spewing for half a decade, and now you wanna go after Clemens, after ignoring a decades worth of suggestions that suggested he might have more going for him than just a heavy-duty workout regimen. Bonds’ head is bigger? Great investigative journalism.
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You’re really not paying attention if you believe the crap you just wrote. Every single time he says something, it gets picked apart by the ‘First Take’ folks and everyone else. It isn’t media types calling McNamee a shady character; it’s Roger’s attorney. Most sportswriters are pointing out that McNamee has nothing to gain from lying about Clemens.
McNamee says Clemens used PED’s, and that he helped him do it, and is immediately labeled an unreliable witness with a bone to pick with Clemens, while Greg Anderson –who says that he did not provide Bonds with PED’s, and never saw him use them– has been accused of waiting for some big pay-off. Hmmmmm…. something doesn’t add up here. That’s right, Mr. Save the Children. It’s you and your sportswriter friends that have a credibility problem right now.
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Yes, they do, but they had it a long time before this so-called racism that isn’t.
You can’t tell us one trainer is a liar for saying that his guy used PED’s –based on nothing at all, by the way, no interviews, no first-hand knowledge, NOTHING– and the other trainer is a liar for denying that his guy did –this time because a couple of your friends wrote a book that contradicts his direct, under oath, testimony. You can’t have it both ways. Either you believe the trainers, or you don’t.
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This is poor logic on your part although I concede some of your points. The two trainers do not have to be both truthful or both lying. I tend to suspect McNamee is telling the truth and Anderson is lying – and both of them used juice.
If McNamee is lying when he outs your pal, and Greg Anderson and Victor Conte are lying when they say the bad guy didn’t…. Well, even a blowhard like you can see where I’m going here. You’re being selective, and if race isn’t the reason why, well, then; what is?
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Again – you’ve got a black man who cheats on his wife (called lying in addition to adultery), who admits under oath he used steroids ‘unknowingly,’ and has a trainer with ties to a raided laboratory – and a white man who Jose Canseco called the only guy he knew who didn’t cheat on his wife, who has NO grand jury testimony, and no ties with BALCO.
If you think those are even remotely analogous, I suggest you study logic before writing again.
wow, Mia… you certainly have a way with words. “They have managed to secure their brains in Chinese handcuffs” indeed.
Quite amusing that a journalist uses a racial reference to “prove” that he’s not racist. I had never heard the phrase “limo liberal”, but I know exactly what you mean. Shows how far people will go, that Anderson is “respectable” and McNamee is “garbage”, just to prove the inverse with the stars in question – I would suggest it’s not just “black man”, it’s “uppity black man”. Evil deceptive Bonds and sadly misled Clemens. The contrast is incredible… it actually strikes me that the people in the Mitchell report have pretty much gotten off the hook. And VERY notable that they are almost all players that have retired, or are about too. What, the active players somehow by benefit of being born at least 5 years later are completely different? Witch hunt. 4 years and $10 million. Plus whatever the Mitchell report cost, out of fan’s pockets. Merry Christmas.
Deford is full of shit. He is the epitome of Limo Liberal. His backwards illogic attempting to parse the Mitchell report as the playing field leveler is so cynical he doesn’t even realize it. This is the problem I have with MSM. They are beyond redemption so corrupted is their thought process. They spend their days and evenings knobbing each other and don’t realize they’re more corrupted then the supposed targets of their ire are. Daily, more and more people are coming to realize the most insipid of the bigots are disguised as sheep.
Frank Deford disgraced himself long ago. He and Costas, the two pseudo intellectuals who have finally revealed themselves for the closted bigots they are. They have managed to secure their brains in Chinese handcuffs. The more they twist and turn along their tortured paths of contrasts, contortions and contradictions, the more they reveal the saggy pouches of addled thought construction.
The more they attempt to recover their carefully camouflaged conceit and racial prejudice, with ridiculous and blathering analogies, the more disgusting they become to more and more of the unwary of whom so many they have hoodwinked over the years.
Fuck em. Costas and Deford are two of the most egregious phonies to ever have their smears put on the airwaves and in print.
To be honest John, Costas and Deford were two of my favorites. They have long since revealed themselves to be pompous posers. How you can stomach to even listen/read either of them for more than 3 seconds is beyond my understanding.
As Yoda might say “Sacks of shit, they are.”
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