Bad News for Baseball

Barry Bonds is chasing the all-time homerun record in major league baseball. He could do it this year if his health holds up. He's been a marvelous ballplayer over the years, but lately some question has arisen as to how he came to be so good. He was involved with the Balco scandal, which also involved New York Yankee sluggers Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield.


Bonds claimed that he never did steroids, and if he did, it was by accident.

Well, today Sports Illustrated has an apparently damning article on Bonds, excerpted from teh book Game of Shadows (by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle). I haven't had a chance to read it yet: it's about twenty pages long.

So instead of reading about the World Baseball Classic, and the win of Estados Unidos over Mexico, or the Domincan Republic over Venezuela (take that, Hugo Chavez!), we're reading about cheaters. And the thing is, the guy was a damned good ballplayer without it.