MLB and Steroids

In addition to the article in ESPN The Magazine, this story appeared on ESPN.com:
ESPN.com - Report: Montgomery links Bonds to 'roids

This is a good example of the kind of bullshit that has caused everyone to assume that Bonds (and Sheffield, and Giambi, and...) is (are) guilty. The United States has a justice system built on the premise that everyone is innocent of all crimes until proven guilty, right?

Even if you disregard the fact that the compound THG wasn't even illegal at the time the players allegedly took it, and say that they would have broken the nonexistent rule, we have yet to see conclusive evidence that ANY players took ANYTHING illegal. Everyone is bound to bring up the results of last years testing, so...

Investigators and/or associates of the investigation would love to leak the results of the tests (which resulted over 7% of tests coming back positive) to the public, which would be illegal, simply for the publicity. I'm compelled to inform everyone that there were entire groups of teammates that opted not to take the tests last year, the Chicago White Sox have come forward publicly as one such group. In failing to take the test, the rest ends up recorded as positive for steroids. Players say they chose to do it so that the conditional testing program would kick in, but this fact is often over looked in most of the public scrutiny over last years results. There is no telling how many of the tests were false positives, simply the result of players chosing not to take the test.

This type of 'guilty until proven innocent' garbage has over 75% of kids convinced that Barry took steroids. This opinion is built upon alleged associations with BALCO and Stan Conte, and the alleged actions of both parties.

So, when I go kill somebody (aka Tim Montgomery), watch out -- everybody that writes for TOPD is associated with me, which will clearly make you guilty as well. The only difference is I really will have broken the law.

I wish that the President and Congress would stop sticking their noses into MLB's business, but if they're going to get involved, they could at least do a better job of enforcing simple privacy laws.