On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:26:50 -0500, "Deborah Terreson"
 wrote:

>I mentioned that Canseco is going to go testify to a house committee and Bob
>just came in and says he has an idea... That every time Barry Bonds goes up
>to bat, the pitchers should walk him until he comes clean!! 


Well, tell Bob that Bonds would hardly notice the difference.  And
then ask him, suppose Bonds "came clean".  Would the pitchers then
agree to STOP walking him?

On the other hand, what if Bonds came up in the bottom of the ninth
inning with the score tied and the bases loaded?

Walking him intentionally under those circumstances would probably be
carrying the principle of forcing him to "come clean" just a little
too far - wouldn't it?



>I think he's
>getting disgusted, he just huffed out that he's seen Brooks Robinson, Pete
>Rose and Hank Aaron and he doesn't need this shit!!


I can't find that story, but he is always getting disgusted.
Personally, I think that he should give the press his middle finger.
He never cared before what they wrote about him.  He never cared
whether the fans booed or cheered.  Why should he give a shit now?

Actually, as long as the investigation of BALCO is still in the hands
of a grand jury, his attorney is undoubtedly telling him not to talk
publicly about it, and he should probably be following his attorney's
advice.


>Babe Ruth did it on bourbon and hot dogs.


As did Mickey Mantle.

Paul Waner - "Big Poison" to his peers (his little brother Lloyd was
"Little Poison") - was another Hall of Famer who enjoyed looking at
the wine when it was red - though he was more of a singles-and-doubles
hitter than a home run hitter.

But most of his 3152 hits (3000 is pretty much of an automatic Hall of
Fame qualifier) were achieved with a warm happy glow inside of him.

The worst season of his big league career was apparently the one that
he spent on the wagon.  He explained his success as a hitter thusly:
I used to see three baseballs, and I hit the middle one.

I recently saw an old movie, "Witness for the Prosecution", in which
Charles Laughton played a brilliant English barrister defending a
client charged with murder.  

His character frequently sipped brandy stored in his cane while in
court, and the more drunk he got, the better his command of the law
and of the facts of his case and the more brilliant and witty his
legal arguments became.

I wish that I knew where to find brandy like that.


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thing.  (As Wyndham Lewis suggested in "Self
Condemned", the neo-positivist pedant reduces
himself to a mosquito, able to wound, nearly
invulnerable to counter-assault - but only an
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