Comments on: …. Nobody knows http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:05:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: marc http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/comment-page-1/#comment-27850 marc Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:54:40 +0000 http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/#comment-27850 "…. You take illegal drugs in sports and you get caught and then you lie about it and you go to jail. That’s how it works now." WHY? Don't your aunt Edna and your cousin Elmer take steroids for their bunions? Didn't grandma Edweena get caught with a bag of PCP and just has to attend some NA meetings? Doesn't workout freak uncle Horacio take blood thinners for when he crosses the Rockies on his unicycle? Don't I have elevated levels of testoterone as indicated by my baldness and hoardes of women dogging my every step? Yeah, I'M silly. Lupica makes it sound like Bonds was eating puppies in the clubhouse. Shall we send our favorite starlet to the big house because it's obvious those are implants? Are we SURE that today's media hunk's hairstylist is licensed in the state of California? Maybe Bonds is just a famous figure in an entertainment industry, who people paid a bunch to watch what he did well. Yegads, these are runners and baseball players, not axe-murderers. "That's how it works now"... god help us all. “…. You take illegal drugs in sports and you get caught and then you lie about it and you go to jail. That’s how it works now.”

WHY? Don’t your aunt Edna and your cousin Elmer take steroids for their bunions? Didn’t grandma Edweena get caught with a bag of PCP and just has to attend some NA meetings? Doesn’t workout freak uncle Horacio take blood thinners for when he crosses the Rockies on his unicycle? Don’t I have elevated levels of testoterone as indicated by my baldness and hoardes of women dogging my every step?

Yeah, I’M silly. Lupica makes it sound like Bonds was eating puppies in the clubhouse. Shall we send our favorite starlet to the big house because it’s obvious those are implants? Are we SURE that today’s media hunk’s hairstylist is licensed in the state of California? Maybe Bonds is just a famous figure in an entertainment industry, who people paid a bunch to watch what he did well. Yegads, these are runners and baseball players, not axe-murderers.

“That’s how it works now”… god help us all.

]]> By: uncle joe mccarthy http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/comment-page-1/#comment-27823 uncle joe mccarthy Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:09 +0000 http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/#comment-27823 ladies and gentlemen, today we discovered what our justice dept in interested in prosecuting they love going after ballplayers....and politicians who bed hookers think the bonds case is a fubar? check out the spitzer case somehow the feds got his bank to monitor his accounts....looking for a crime yet to be committed the bank noticed some wierd transfers....funny, but the dude is a multimillionaire, and he was transfering thousands, not hundreds of thousands they reported this to the irs....who reported it to the feds....who thought he was hiding bribes......bribes????? why would an independently wealthy man, with his eye on a possible future wh run take bribes in the few thousands no apparent source to those bribes either....shoot, doesnt the irs know what he makes per year in dividends? then, lo and behold, they discover that the monies are going to a front for an escort service so there are no bribes, and paying an escort service in of itself is not a crime but does that stop the feds....nope they keep going...find out that the escort service girls also provide sex...and bang....instant scandal this is the most corrupt justice dept ever in the history of this great union neither bonds nor spitzer will ever be convicted, but the repugs have done their jobs and ruined their careers good job.....asshats ladies and gentlemen,

today we discovered what our justice dept in interested in prosecuting

they love going after ballplayers….and politicians who bed hookers

think the bonds case is a fubar? check out the spitzer case

somehow the feds got his bank to monitor his accounts….looking for a crime yet to be committed

the bank noticed some wierd transfers….funny, but the dude is a multimillionaire, and he was transfering thousands, not hundreds of thousands

they reported this to the irs….who reported it to the feds….who thought he was hiding bribes……bribes?????

why would an independently wealthy man, with his eye on a possible future wh run take bribes in the few thousands

no apparent source to those bribes either….shoot, doesnt the irs know what he makes per year in dividends?

then, lo and behold, they discover that the monies are going to a front for an escort service

so there are no bribes, and paying an escort service in of itself is not a crime

but does that stop the feds….nope

they keep going…find out that the escort service girls also provide sex…and bang….instant scandal

this is the most corrupt justice dept ever in the history of this great union

neither bonds nor spitzer will ever be convicted, but the repugs have done their jobs and ruined their careers

good job…..asshats

]]> By: giantsrainman http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/comment-page-1/#comment-27767 giantsrainman Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:00:45 +0000 http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/#comment-27767 Did you bother to read Victor Conte's article linked to from the NY Daily News? Thought not. Looks like your private education isn't doing you much good when all you do is believe the BS MSM feeds you. Did you bother to read Victor Conte’s article linked to from the NY Daily News? Thought not. Looks like your private education isn’t doing you much good when all you do is believe the BS MSM feeds you.

]]> By: T is for Testosterone http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/comment-page-1/#comment-27688 T is for Testosterone Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:52:40 +0000 http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/#comment-27688 There is a BIG difference between testosterone and "free testosterone". The report DID NOT say his testosterone was high, it said his "Free Testosterone" was just outside the high end of normal. You must have gone to public school. There is a BIG difference between testosterone and “free testosterone”. The report DID NOT say his testosterone was high, it said his “Free Testosterone” was just outside the high end of normal.

You must have gone to public school.

]]> By: Mark O’Connor http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/comment-page-1/#comment-27682 Mark O’Connor Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:35:36 +0000 http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/#comment-27682 My read on Conte is Snake Oil Salesman. He marketed products and services to athletes that probably had little or nothing to do with "performance enhancement." He's probably on to something with some of these drugs and chemicals, but his lack of expertise in medicine, physiology, biochemistry, etc. raises my suspicions. (If you told top athletes that a couple of laps around the rosary beads would help them get better they'd do it.) So why defend Bonds? One, Bonds is likely telling the truth about his infrequent and very minimal interaction with Conte. There's no animus. Two, it helps his business. His market is a narrow subset of people (world class performers). Defending Bonds is defending potential future clients. I'm also willing to entertain the obvious notion--he's telling the truth because, well, it is true. The article in the Daily News talks about a tiny little blip on a single--alleged--test. It indicates almost nothing, as Conte points out. It doesn't hurt Conte to defend Bonds, his public reputation has already been destroyed by his own conviction and the sad Marion Jones affair. She goes to prison today--what a terrible over-reaction to a non-crime! My read on Conte is Snake Oil Salesman. He marketed products and services to athletes that probably had little or nothing to do with “performance enhancement.” He’s probably on to something with some of these drugs and chemicals, but his lack of expertise in medicine, physiology, biochemistry, etc. raises my suspicions. (If you told top athletes that a couple of laps around the rosary beads would help them get better they’d do it.) So why defend Bonds? One, Bonds is likely telling the truth about his infrequent and very minimal interaction with Conte. There’s no animus. Two, it helps his business. His market is a narrow subset of people (world class performers). Defending Bonds is defending potential future clients. I’m also willing to entertain the obvious notion–he’s telling the truth because, well, it is true. The article in the Daily News talks about a tiny little blip on a single–alleged–test. It indicates almost nothing, as Conte points out. It doesn’t hurt Conte to defend Bonds, his public reputation has already been destroyed by his own conviction and the sad Marion Jones affair. She goes to prison today–what a terrible over-reaction to a non-crime!

]]> By: sanfrancisco http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/comment-page-1/#comment-27649 sanfrancisco Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:14:56 +0000 http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/#comment-27649 [...] I can't recall any SF talent making anywhere NEAR that kind of change. That w...www.radio-info.com??. Nobody knowsFebruary 2004 - January 2004 - December 2003 - November 2003 - October 2003 - September 2003 - [...] [...] I can’t recall any SF talent making anywhere NEAR that kind of change. That w…www.radio-info.com??. Nobody knowsFebruary 2004 – January 2004 – December 2003 – November 2003 – October 2003 – September 2003 – [...]

]]> By: giantsrainman http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/comment-page-1/#comment-27647 giantsrainman Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:57:14 +0000 http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/#comment-27647 Opps again. I also ment with two noted exceptions not with "too noted exceptions". Opps again. I also ment with two noted exceptions not with “too noted exceptions”.

]]> By: giantsrainman http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/comment-page-1/#comment-27646 giantsrainman Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:54:28 +0000 http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/#comment-27646 To quote Barry Bonds, "Opps". Obviously I ment Steve Hoskins not Steve Askins. To quote Barry Bonds, “Opps”. Obviously I ment Steve Hoskins not Steve Askins.

]]> By: giantsrainman http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/comment-page-1/#comment-27645 giantsrainman Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:48:37 +0000 http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/#comment-27645 I think Victor Conte and Greg Anderson both remain loyal to Barry Bonds because Barry Bonds remained loyal to them when he went before the Grand Jury. With too noted exceptions (Kimberly Bell and Steve Askins) Barry seems to get great loyalty from his friends. Could it be that privately Barry is no where near the Jerk the Press has painted him to be? Could it be the Kimberly Bell and Steve Askins actually tried to extort and cheat Barry repectively of money and they are actually the jerks? I think Victor Conte and Greg Anderson both remain loyal to Barry Bonds because Barry Bonds remained loyal to them when he went before the Grand Jury. With too noted exceptions (Kimberly Bell and Steve Askins) Barry seems to get great loyalty from his friends. Could it be that privately Barry is no where near the Jerk the Press has painted him to be? Could it be the Kimberly Bell and Steve Askins actually tried to extort and cheat Barry repectively of money and they are actually the jerks?

]]> By: +mia http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/comment-page-1/#comment-27642 +mia Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:07:12 +0000 http://www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2008/03/07/nobody-knows/#comment-27642 Care to elaborate what you mean by being the source of the problem, and why if that were in fact the case, that would be relevant to motive? Care to elaborate what you mean by being the source of the problem, and why if that were in fact the case, that would be relevant to motive?

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