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Like Busting Al Capone for Tax Evasion

January 11, 2007

The news about Barry Bonds this morning reminds me of an old joke:

Guy's working at a construction site. Every day, after he clocks out, he leaves the site pushing a wheelbarrow full of dirt. The foreman suspects he's up to something, so he starts inspecting the wheelbarrow as the guy's leaving. But it's never anything more than what it appears -- a wheelbarrow full of dirt.

Years later, the foreman sees the guy in a bar, and asks him what he was really up to. "You were stealing something, right?"

The guy nods.

"Okay, I give up. What were you stealing?"

The guy smiles. "Wheelbarrows."

It's not exactly analogous to Barry Bonds failing a drug test for amphetamines, but it's in the ballpark:

Barry Bonds, already under investigation for lying under oath about his steroid use, failed a test under Major League Baseball's amphetamine policy last season and then initially blamed it on a teammate, the Daily News has learned.

Under the policy, which went into effect only last season, players are not publicly identified for a first positive test.

But according to several sources, when first informed by the MLB Players Association of the positive test, Bonds attributed it to a substance he had taken from the locker of teammate Mark Sweeney. Sources did not identify the drug in question but characterized it as a serious stimulant.

When asked last night whether Bonds had an explanation for why he failed the test or if he wanted to issue a denial, Bonds' agent, Jeff Borris, said, "I have no comment on that."

I guess if the joke had the guy with the wheelbarrows blaming a coworker, the link would make more sense.

Of course the big irony is baseball's most notorious steroid user testing dirty for a garden-variety stimulant -- hence my headline about Al Capone. What's the fun in that?

(Thanks to Mike Navin for the heads-up.)

Posted by LouSchuler at January 11, 2007 09:29 AM

Like Busting Al Capone for Tax Evasion

January 11, 2007

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