Eric Florack on November 15th, 2007

Several folks, including Billy Beck, and a pile more at Memeorandum, have noted thet Barry Bonds was indicted in that BALCO thing. Chicoer.com:

SAN FRANCISCO—Barry Bonds, baseball’s home run king, was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday

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Eric Florack on August 8th, 2007

I’ve already made mention of this, but a post from McQ and the timing of it as regards other conversations, I think deserves a response:

Hit number 756

[Yawn]

Says the real home run king:

“I would like to

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Eric Florack on March 2nd, 2004

The SanFran Chronicle is reporting something that only their own reporters aparently, hadn’t guessed:

“San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, New York Yankees stars Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield and three other major league baseball players received steroids from a

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Carlisle, PA--After three highly unusual weeks of running to the west it appears as though I will be spending the remainder of this year running east.  That’s a bit more normal for this truck line.  Frankly, we’re experiencing a

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

I said yesterday morning that Major league baseball and its report that was issued yesterday about steroid use, was going to end up being a sham. They’d throw a few players under the bus, and that would be the end

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007
  • Raining here, today. So much for getting any work done on the trailer.
  • Honorable mention at OTB’s Caption Contest.. For once it wasn’t just the trailer park.
  • TNR has released a statement on Beauchamp. Basically, the story amounted to

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Eric Florack on August 5th, 2007

Joyner:

How’s this for a confluence of events: Barry Bonds ties Hank Aaron atop the career home run list; Alex Rodriguez hits his 500th home run, by 330 days the youngest to do so in Major League Baseball’s long

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2007

* gas2.jpegThe oil companies are making on the order of 8¢ a gallon for gasoline. Meanwhile, the smallest tax on a gallon of gasoline comes up to 27¢, that being in the state of Alaska. Here in New York, it

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