This is where I am on this: if you've tested positive, i wouldn't vote for you to get in the HOF anything short of a positive test, and i wouldn't hinge my vote on allegation.
no story SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal prosecutors mistakenly filed court papers Thursday that incorrectly stated that Barry Bonds failed a steroids test in November of 2001 -- one month after breaking the single-season home run mark. U.S. attorney spokesman Josh Eaton now says that the reference in Thursday's government court filing regarding Bonds testing positive was actually referring to a November 2000 test that was previously disclosed in the indictment of Bonds and had already been reported. That drug test was included in the indictment unsealed last year, when prosecutors said the test was for a player they called "Barry B." In December, Bonds pleaded not guilty to lying to a federal grand jury in 2003 when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs. The mistake prompted at least one erroneous report that was quickly posted to Web sites around the country. The filing amounted to federal prosecutors defending their questioning of Bonds before a grand jury, and urging a judge to keep the slugger's perjury prosecution on track. Bonds had argued that the questions posed to him by prosecutors were ambiguous and confusing. He demanded that the five-count indictment charging him with lying to a grand jury be tossed out. Bonds has pleaded not guilty. In the filing, prosecutors said Bonds was specifically told before he began testifying in 2003 that he could consult with his lawyers or ask for a question rephrased if he ever got confused. "Bonds never said he was confused or asked the prosecutor to rephrase a question," the government's filing stated. Instead, they said their questions left no doubt that they were asking Bonds about his drug use and his relationship with personal trainer Greg Anderson. Prosecutors said "as the evidence at trial will show, each count charges that Bonds repeatedly lied in answering the same question or questions on the same subject matter." The matter will be the subject of a court hearing Feb. 29. In a related proceeding, Anderson and BALCO founder Victor Conte are expected in court Friday for a hearing on whether they can keep all the evidence prosecutors turned over to them from the government's investigation of steroids in sports. Federal prosecutors want the two convicted steroids dealers to return the documents.
notice how in the bolded part of the "retraction" espn doesn't mention it was one of the web sites. that's unbelievable
I must have missed the fact that he ever tested positive...I wasn't aware, that I can remember, of the 2000 test. What does Barry say about it?
If I remember correctly, I believe that test is a controversial test that BALCO administered in trying to figure out if their steroids were detectable. It wasn't an MLB or gov't test or anything like that. It was discovered in a raid on BALCO, and I think it might just have been documentation about it as opposed to having the blood samples or whatnot.
