MLB to investigate Bobble Head Bonds, BIG DEAL

[Penguinfan]

Anyone with a shred of sense can see MLB is just doing this so they can clear (pun intended) the mad hatter of any wrong doing and have a big celebration when he breaks the home run record.

Only the Bush administration is more transparent with it motives.

If they were serious about Bonds then why wait till now?

Bud Selig should be the one being investigated, I appoint Charles Barkley to investigate exaclty how big of an asshole Selig is.

Bonds cheated and Selig has to find a way to avoid the embarrasment of what to do when Bonds breaks the most revered record in all of sports, this is the wrong choice.

 

[THE KOD]

pf

I am thinking the opposite.

I am thinking that the investigation will show Bonds used Steroids and he will be kicked out of baseball and banned for good.

No celebration. No breaking Babe Ruths record, no breaking Hanks record.

Too bad So Sad Barry .......YOU ASS CLOWN !

 

[xusnhtus]

Investigation is being run by a Red Sox owner.
i can see results now....

The reason MLB has a steroid mess is
because of NY Yankees. As punishment
all games between Yankees & Red Sox
will be played at Boston.

 

[AR182]

here is what babe ruth's family thinks.....

Ruth's family likely won't honor Bonds
Grandson says he probably won't be on hand if Giant hits 715th home run

Updated: 3:44 p.m. ET March 30, 2006

Babe Ruth's grandson said he probably will not be on hand to congratulate Barry Bonds if and when he hits his 715th home run to pass the former New York Yankees legend, the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday.

"If it weren't for the cloud of controversy, which we all are very much aware of, I think we all would be looking at this perhaps a little bit differently than we are," Tom Stevens, 53, told the Tribune via telephone from Las Vegas. "I was talking with the Giants (Monday) night. They called me regarding appearing (at the possible times when Bonds could surpass Ruth).

"Normally, I would be right there to congratulate him. My problem with doing that ? particularly with the revelations that have come up in the recent book ("Game of Shadows") ? my concern with being associated with that would be how it would be perceived by the public. Until the publication of that book, I would have been inclined to be there.


"Bonds said some pretty nasty stuff (about Ruth being America's white hero). But that aside, my feeling was 'Let's take the high road here and be the better person.' After all is said and done, what is important is not to do anything that would tarnish Babe's image."

Stevens said his mother has decided not to be present to congratulate Bonds.

"They think we should distance ourselves as far as possible," said Stevens, who is represented by Indianapolis-based Curtis Management, which looks after the family's commercial interests.


"And there are a number of sports agents who represent ballplayers who also advise the same. I am probably going to defer to their counsel."

Stevens said he met Bonds when he he hit 73 home runs in 2001 "and Bonds couldn't have been nicer," the Tribune said.

Stevens, a workout fanatic, told the Tribune he and Bonds even talked about workout routines and natural workout supplements at that meeting.


"Steroids never came up. I wouldn't want to touch that to (tick) him off," Stevens said.

Stevens blames the Major League Players Association as well as Commissioner Bud Selig for creating the steroid crisis.

"Their inactivity brought this about," he said. "But going forward, there has to be a comprehensive (steroid) policy to restore the faith.

"At the time, (Bonds) wasn't breaking any (MLB) rules and neither was (Mark) McGwire. There was no policy in place. That's unforgivable. Baseball really brought it on itself."

 

[AR182]

Dowd: Bad call by MLB

Dowd: Bad call by MLB

these are good points that dowd makes.......it's probably time for selig (see no evil,hear no evil, speak no evil) to retire...........


BY MICHAEL O'KEEFFE
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

The former prosecutor who investigated gambling allegations against Pete Rose says former Maine senator George Mitchell is a terrible pick to lead MLB's steroids investigation.
"I don't think it is a good choice," attorney John Dowd told the Daily News yesterday. "I have absolutely no confidence in this or in Sen. Mitchell."

Dowd speaks from personal experience. He clashed with the former Senate majority leader when he represented Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) during the savings & loan scandal of the early 1990s. Five senators, including McCain, were investigated for their relationships with Charles Keating, the tycoon who was later sent to prison for his role in the collapse of the S&L industry. The case against McCain was negligible, Dowd says. But McCain was the only Republican under scrutiny, and Dowd says Mitchell, the Maine Democrat, went out of his way to publicly humiliate his client.

"McCain told me this was worse than being in the Hanoi Hilton," Dowd said.

Dowd said Mitchell's many ties to MLB rule out his ability to conduct an objective investigation. Mitchell is a part-owner of the Boston Red Sox and chairman of Walt Disney Co., the parent of ESPN, a national broadcast partner with baseball. He is a former director of the Florida Marlins and helped write a report on baseball economics in 1999 that the Players' Association and other critics said was one-sided and slanted toward the owners.

"Integrity should be the central point of the investigation," Dowd said. "There are plenty of good people out there who could do this. It should be somebody without a relationship to Bud Selig.

"This is just sloppy," Dowd added.

Dowd believes the commissioner chose Mitchell to shield baseball from further congressional scrutiny. "These guys all love each other, even after they retire, so nobody will criticize Mitchell."

It is a tactic, however, that could backfire. McCain, perhaps baseball's biggest critic on Capitol Hill, won't tolerate a whitewash, Dowd said.

"John won't roll over," he said. "I'm sure John will call this straight."

 

[THE KOD]

I have to agree they got the wrong man to conduct this investigation.

Something already stinks in the woodpile.

Fair and impartial .... thats a laugh

 

[Wineguy]

Hey ASS CLOWN Scottie...Barry will never be kicked from baseball and there WILL be celebrating his breaking Ruth's record. You watch. Oh, by the way, you are such a jerk. :mj07: Sorry other Madjacker's

 

[vinnie]

BONDS is a juice head anyone who thinks different is a IDIOT the good news is you can be President :scared