Originally posted by TheWooLick:Originally posted by tjd808185:Originally posted by TheWooLick:I don't recall anyone being charged or convicted of felony drug use for using the Clear or the Cream. I don't have a problem with players using PEDs to recover from workouts and games.
Do you think Brady is using HGH or any other banned substances?
That's because the Feds go after the suppliers not the users in that scenario. Bonds almost went down for possibly lying about it but that just ended up being a waste of $.
We're not going to convince each other whether he was innocent or guilty I won't waste my time on that.
They reached hard to go after Bonds, the whole BALCO investigation started because Jeff Novitsky, a frustrated failed athlete, thought he was an ***hole and wanted to see him go down.
"That Bonds. He's a great athlete," Internal Revenue Service criminal investigator Jeff Novitzky told California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent Iran White three or four years ago, according to White's account, as reported in a remarkable May 2004 Playboy article. "You think he's on steroids?" When White reckoned that Bonds was, Novitzky reportedly answered: "He's such an a*****e to the press... I'd sure like to prove it."
http://reason.com/archives/2004/12/08/george-bush-vs-barry-bonds
If they had any reason to charge Bonds with felony drug use they would have. Instead they charged him with a dozen other things they couldn't prove.
I don't see it as an issue as simple as innocent or guilty. Dude used substances (clear and Cream) not identified as illegal to recover from workouts faster. I don't see that as being worse than tampering with equipment or spying on other teams.
It's no different if they tried to go after Brady for perjury. They couldn't get Anderson to testify against him and NE has that eqip manager bribed off. You can think what you want but dude was doing more than the cream and clear.
I'm done talking Bonds though.
[ Edited by tjd808185 on Jan 23, 2018 at 9:40 AM ]