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Originally Posted by flambers
This will never be prooved its just a lame attempt to sell a book. Sure everyone believes Bonds was on Driods but he was never caught.
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Yes, he was "caught", but Barry said he didn't know what he was taking (obviously a real whopper of a lie).
I suggest you look at the book. The evidence is overwhelming and well-documented.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...G90HJF4N22.DTL
Fainaru-Wada and Williams based their narrative "on more than a thousand pages of documents and interviews with more than 200 people, many of whom we spoke to repeatedly."
From 2003 through 2005, Fainaru-Wada and Williams wrote nearly 100 stories for The Chronicle, lifting the BALCO investigation into an international story and eventually leading to congressional pressure that forced Major League Baseball to twice toughen its steroids policy.
Fainaru-Wada and Williams based the book on a wide range of material, Williams said.
"There are statements to federal investigators, sworn testimony, a secret recording of Greg Anderson and on-the-record interviews, and the gist of our story is all supported by material that we can point to the sources on," Williams said. "It's all going in one direction. There's not any equivocation on this that's compelling or believable. We also have relied on unnamed sources who have given us a story that's very consistent with what the public record says about Bonds and steroid use."
As for why the story matters, Williams said, "I think it's important for baseball to corral performance-enhancing drugs and not tolerate them, because the tolerance for those drugs will inevitably seep down into the colleges and the prep programs. We're already seeing it."