Sports Illustrated has published a large excerpt from the upcoming book Game of Shadows, by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams.

A fascinating look into the world of steroids and the BALCO scandal. I don't know if I would read the whole book but the series of articles on the SI web site is quite interesting. Does not portray a very favourable picture of Barry Bonds.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/03/06/growth0313/index.html
Excerpted from Game of Shadows, by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, to be published this month by Gotham Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA, Inc.). © 2006 by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams.

Good story. Very comprehensive. I couldn't quite finish it.

It's a damn shame what's happened to baseball with the drugs. :cry:

Thanks for sharing the link.
I wish I could admire Barry's on-the-field performance as much
as I've always admired his (terribly underappreciated, IMHO) dad's.

Winning at baseball has always had its element of cheating.
That is, if "cheating" is what you want to call it.
So I suspect the irony will always be there in the sport:
among the biggest "winners" there will always be some of the biggest losers.

That's no prejudgment of Barry Bonds.
I can only hope the unvarnished truth emerges and survives through history.

-WWJRHD? (What Would Jackie Robinson Have Done?)

The day he hit a home run off a broken bat in San Francisco a year or two ago was the day I knew he was a juicer.

I think they should not only be thrown out of the game for life, but any and all records they accumulated would be thrown out with their cheating as*es.

I play baseball and love the game, it makes be angry to even thing that this is going on, let alone knowing it does

The day he hit a home run off a broken bat in San Francisco a year or two ago was the day I knew he was a juicer.

I think they should not only be thrown out of the game for life, but any and all records they accumulated would be thrown out with their cheating as*es.

I play baseball and love the game, it makes be angry to even thing that this is going on, let alone knowing it does

It must piss you off to know that without *help* your chances of making it to the show are pretty much nil, unless you are truly a phreak.

It must piss you off to know that without *help* your chances of making it to the show are pretty much nil, unless you are truly a phreak.


I know what you are saying. I don't even want to play college ball. I just really like the game. It's sad to see what pretty much all sports have become, commanded by the dollar, and controlled by TV ratings.

What ever gets the fans in the seats, is the bottom line now a days.

I know what you are saying. I don't even want to play college ball. I just really like the game. It's sad to see what pretty much all sports have become, commanded by the dollar, and controlled by TV ratings.

What ever gets the fans in the seats, is the bottom line now a days.
Don't give up on the game. Give the drug craze the time it has to take,
before better sense returns (if the craze is in fact all that bad).
It (reform back to drug-free sanity, that is) could happen,
and sooner than you might expect. Without resorting to "government."

Don't knock the bottom-line thinking - that's always been there.
You have to stay hopeful that something new (and decent) will come along,
that'll re-kindle the interest and re-fill the seats, with a new generation.

Does anyone have any suspicion whether the (recently) late,
GREAT Kirby Puckett did any juicing?
I don't suspect him - always admired him.
And yet, I can't help fretting about it.
Because it just doesn't make sense that such a fine athlete
would have glaucoma (and whatever else), so young, and die so young.

If it turns out that his health problems can be traced to juicing, watch out...
We live in a Litigious Society, where "dirty dealing" can (very often) be
more effectively sued than shot out of business. IF it's worked right...