Saturday, December 04, 2004


Yahoo! News - Baseball Facing Crisis as Steroids Scandal Deepens
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball (MLB) was facing one of the biggest crises in its long history on Friday, after the name of Barry Bonds was added to a growing list of Most Valuable Players (MVP) linked with steroid use.

One day after the San Francisco Chronicle reported excerpts from closed-door grand jury testimony from New York Yankee Jason Giambi in which he admitted using steroids, Bonds's lawyer told reporters the San Francisco Giants slugger had unknowingly taken substances that could have contained steroids.

"The use of these substances continues to raise issues regarding the game's integrity and raises serious concerns about the health and well-being of our players," said MLB commissioner Bud Selig in a statement on Friday.

Say it ain't so, Joe. I have a hard time looking at this, being my sacred cow and all. When it led the NBC news last night my heart sank. I also have a hard time believeing that Bonds, or any of the others, didn't know what they were taking. If your body makes you millions of dollars a year, you don't randomly throw chemicals into it on "blind faith".