This whole sordid tale is about the failure of the owners of Major League Baseball to do damage control when Bonds was singled out for persecutio
n over steroids when it was an open secret players were using across the league. My guess is that Bonds was seen as a problem child by ownership and they figured letting him take his licks would serve Bonds right and not expose the league to overall criticism ... the problem was this wasn't an open and shut case and caused more and more of the steroid using players to be exposed. If you only have one guy accused and suffer punishment for steroids you aren't looking at a holistic scandal for Major League Baseball, but when you have loose cannons like Jose Canseco chiming in with incriminat
ing evidence about other players in the league as the Bond's case drags on and on and on ... Major League Baseball gets a black eye.
Now that we are aware that there were numerous players using steroids during the 'BASH BROTHERS" era there is no way ownership was caught unawares. Once Bonds was catching heat Major League Baseball should have openly addressed the steroid issue rather than pretending it was an isolated incident. That would probably have saved the league and Bonds a lot of grief.
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