Sorry, you won’t find much here. There are writers far more up on the subject of Barry Bonds, indictments, steroids, ethics, etc.
Suffice it to say that there will be at least one book out in the very near future. Fainaru-Wada and Williams will make the talk show circuit again, which will have the consequent effect of boosting sales of Game of Shadows. In addition, Pearlman’s Love Me, Hate Me will also find a renewed interest.
I also predict at least a couple of new titles on sports and ethics. Some enterprising writer will publish on the steroid generation and how their records are suspect. And they will make (ridiculous) suggestions on how to denote such statistics in the record books. But as Bill Plaschke writes in today’s Los Angeles Times:
Bonds will disappear, leaving behind only a asterisk, although not a literal one.
Baseball will not forcibly smudge his career home-run record of 762.
If baseball starts messing with asterisks, it will have to deal with spitballs and stolen signals and records set during an era in which African Americans and Latinos didn’t participate.
Baseball didn’t place an asterisk on the Cincinnati Reds’ 1919 World Series victory over Shoeless Joe Jackson and the cheating Chicago White Sox, so it can’t do it here.
The real asterisk will be worse. The real asterisk will be a black cloud that will hang over the entire game until we learn to trust it again.
The text of the indictment is available on the The Smoking Gun Web site.
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