Who is going to investigate Selig and the entire MLB for enabling the situation that makes this look ridiculous? That's what I want to know.

Any investigation by MLB into steriod use before 2002 is just absurd.

MLB was neglectful of the problem in the late 90's and this is just their way of pretending like they weren't.

Man, I wish Selig would just admit that he and MLB are taking a forward-looking approach to performance enhancing drugs and admit they bungled the situation in the 90s. As much as I loathe Bonds, he's never been caught, never tested positive on any tests, and always denied using the stuff. Unless you've got the smoking gun--a vial of his blood after the '02 season in a storage locker somewhere--what can *really* be done about it?

He should appoint his good friend Jeffrey Loria to investigate.

Oh wait, he's busy making money off the dismantling of the Expos.

What's that? Oh right, right, not the Expos, he's already done that. I meant the Marlins.

I wonder if this is more motivated by the book or by the letter from Rep Stearns.

I mean, I don't think Selig had read the book yet. If all he's going on is the except (which the more I think about, the less it actually says), then there's not much point to an "investigation" - what could it turn up?

I'd be much more inclined to believe that this is Selig trying to show Congress that he can be proactive - even if nothing comes of it, he can still say he took some action.

Has anyone seen the new overly dramatic piece by Jeff Passan on Yahoo? He writes "One of these days, Barry Bonds will look in the mirror and see what the rest of us see. Nothing."

First of all, I think my blog version, where Barry doesn't see himself because he's become a vampire, is better.

And second, how do you write this stuff when you haven't read Game of Shadows yet? Can we really make all this noise over that excerpt?

Funny you should mention the Passan piece Will...

I wrote about that this morning. I think I described it as "over-the-top."

"over-the-top" is putting it lightly. It seems to be his writing style, which does have its place and time.

Except that he writes that "Details filled crevices where any doubt existed. The tangible proof was right there, down to the cubic centimeter, as indicting as a positive test, the final needle mark."

The SI piece doesn't do that at all. It claims that Bonds did drugs, and provides quantities, and I am willing to believe it, but I'd really like to see their named sources and other details first.

Either Passan is not reading what I read, or his copy of the article included a syringe used by Bonds.

Boy, THAT'd be a collector's item.

Enjoyed the headline Dave.

Bud Selig needs to do whatever it takes to protect the home run marks of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. If he was taking steroids not prescribed by a doctor then he was breaking the law and that alone should be reason for suspension. It might not have broken baseball's laws because there was no restrictions against steroid use at the time. Selig had no interest in controlling steroid use because baseball was reaping a bonanza from the home run chase of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in 1998. And he was an owner himself and glad to be have the money rolling in. I can't see Peter Uebberoth or Bart Giamatti standing by while the rampant use of steroids was going on because they were not puppets of the owners or the players. Fay Vincent also would have handled the situation differently but he was forced out by Selig and the owners causing us to have the 1994 debacle of the World Series being called off. Looks like the only way Selig will give up the post now is if the owners rebel against him or he passes away.

i STILL say there wouldn't be none of all this fuss if the person in question was, say, lenny harris breaking the all time pinch hits record.

it ain't about rage against roids. it's all about rage against barry bonds breaking the Sacred Record.