Flex, Lies and Measuring Tape: The Media’s Assault on Bonds

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We’d like to point out today’s MB feature that, as baseball fans, we find endlessly fascinating. Plus we edited it. Steve Bloom, High Times editor-at-large and brother of MLB.com reporter Barry Bloom, takes a look at the media’s coverage of Barry Bonds during his chase of Babe Ruth, and why virtually no one in the sports media will come to the defense of a alleged steroid-using, certified “jerk.”

Chasing Barry

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