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Re: Former commissioner Fay Vincent calls on Selig to hire an investigator to look into Bonds situation <FONT COLOR=BLACK><b>[</font>Reply to #<a href="read.pl?1-2509">2509</a>]</b>
3/11/06, 8:00am
Unless prescribed by a physician for a specific ailment, steroid use is illegal, right?  I would imagine anything that is 'illegal' in the 'real world' would be illegal in baseball too, no?

And according to this document (from 1991): <b><i><a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/format/memos20051109?memo=1991&num=1" target="_blank">http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/format/memos<BR>20051109?memo=1991&num=1<BR></a></i></b>

that is exactly the case.  Bonds not only broke an MLB rule, but he broke the law. 

>I'm not a Bonds supporter at all, but Rose broke a MLB rule -
>no gambling.  That's what the independent counsel provided
>proof of.  
>
>Bonds took a ton of substances that MLB had no rule against. 
>We all know two things concerning Bonds.  1) He took the
>stuff.  2) There was no MLB rule in place at the time saying
>the stuff was illegal.  What's the independent counsel going
>to tell us?  That Fay Vincent and Bud Selig were lousy
>commissioners because they did not pass a rule banning these
>substances?  That MLB was negligent for years concerning these
>substances?
>
>Dowd supplied the smoking gun against Rose, but there is no
>smoking gun against Bonds.  We all know he cheated, but MLB
>didn't have a rule against what he was doing.
>
>The best thing that can happen is Bonds just quietly retires. 
>Not likely to happen.  Next best thing, every time he steps up
>to the plate he gets booed out of the stadium.  Probably won't
>happen at home, but might on the road.  
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[redsoxchick from Boston/MA]
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