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ers and has his own recliner and
television. He dismisses advice
from team trainers and team
doctors. Maybe he figured that
to prove their case.
For his entire life, Bonds has
been allowed to live by a sepa-
rate set of rules. With the
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In response to David Bloom Is edi-
torial concerning gambling in Texas:
Mr. Bloom have you looked around
and seen all the people that currently
live in Baytown and the surrounding
areas that are driving to Louisiana to
gamble?
These people are stopping
between here and there and spend-
ing money also. So why shouldn't
we have gambling here? I believe
that if we were to build these types
of businesses here that it would keep
alot of the money here instead of
going over there. ,
1, myself, am a gambler but I do
know when to stop. Yes, there are
some people that would let it get out
of control, but they are going to do
it whether it be here or there. So in
closing, I say let’s build them and
keep our money here instead of giv-
ing to Louisiana.
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Baytown
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exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
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The legacy
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Lee, retired Sun reporter.
From my seat in SBC Park,
Barry Bonds has always looked
8 feet tall at home plate. When
he steps into the batter’s box,
even the wind and the seagulls
seem to stop in their tracks.
1 have been trying to reconcile
that image with the tired, defeat-
ed, bitter man on crutches who
kept repeating during a recent
press conference, ''I’m done.
I’m done.”
But there is another image
that keeps coming to mind as
elements of the federal investi-
gation of Barry Bonds continue
to be made public: This swag-
gering, larger-than-life super-
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In 1621, the “Mayflower” sailed from
Plymouth, Mass., on a return trip to England.
In 1887, British historian Lord Acton wrote,
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corrupts absolutely.”
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Wanda Gamer Cash
Editor and Publisher
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1950-1974
rrilic Bush administration is getting quite
I a workout patting itself on the back for
JL being the first in this country or the
world to regulate mercury emissions from
1 power plants.
; And that is a distinction of which to be
; proud. There’s nothing to brag about, though,
I in the weakness of the new regulations and the
• doublespeak of science and diplomacy used to
; produce them.
1 New power plant rules issued last week call
■ for a cap-and-trade system that sets overall tar-
[ gets for reduction of mercury admissions.
1 Some plants are allowed to exceed the limits if
; others register below. Simply enforcing exist-
; jng Clean Air Act requirements on utilities
LWould result in a quicker drop in mercury
J emissions. But the administration argued the
; cost of such controls far outweighed the
potential health benefits.
!« But the administration disregarded some
; jpeonvenient research findings that would
I fiave justified the cost of tighter pollution con-
: trols ortpower plants.
;: President Bush doesn’t like regulations,
doesn’t like treaties and doesn’t like scientific
.■"research that contradicts his views.
The result could be a record crop of brain-
,"4amaged babies.
! That’s not a category in which any nation
j wyould want to come in first.
I £ — The (Baltimore) Sun
pointing in the same direction.
“Th** nnvor.nn ic iiciiollv tame
gets people,” said Robert Stem,
president of the Center for
Governmental Studies in Los
make their case. I’m no lawyer,
but there seems to be a growing
mountain of circumstantial evi-
dence suggesting Bonds wasn’t
telling the whole truth when he
said he did not knowingly use
steroids, such as:
— Greg Anderson, Bonds’
man sitting on the edge of cot in personal trainer, was captured
a prison cell.
This is the elephant in the
room, the topic that so far has
been pointedly avoided in dis-
cussions about Bonds: He could
do time — not for using steroids
using steroids. ’
— Congress declined to call
Bonds to testify at last week’s
steroid hearing because he
apparently is still under federal
investigation.
Did prosecutors have this
much evidence against Scott
Peterson?
There is another parallel to
Martha: Bonds comes across as
AFRAID IT
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TO THIS.
I recall helping survey the damage
and area to rebuild the Chemical
Exchange Plant west of Baytown
Exxon Chemical Plant back in the
early 1980s.
The plant blew up because of a
pentane leak that caused an idling
diesel to rev out of control until it
blew it apart, triggering an explosion
that killed more than 10 people. It is
elementary level science and
mechanics to know that in a diesel
engine without an ignition source,
the fuel explodes from heat caused
by compression.
Diesel engines run wild on timber
trucks that go too fast down steep
grades. Diesel engines run wild
when carbon-based vapors are
drawn into a running engine.
The vast majority of diesel drivers
leave their trucks running to main-
tain air conditioning and air pressure
for their breaks. They had rather
leave them running than having to
restart them and rebuild air pressure
and cooling. But diesel trucks left
running, even at idle inside a chemi-
cal plant, is asking for trouble. As
the popular folk song of the ’60s
said, “When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?”
Cyrus B. Fletcher
Baytown
o many times during Pope John Paul H’s
^^long goodbye, Catholics and others
1k_Z asked, “Why does he keep going? Why
joesn’t he stay inside and rest?’’ Nobody
<uould have begrudged the sick and elderly old
man. who poured himself out in over two
Ttecadcs of tireless ministry, a peaceful conva-
lescence.
■ But that wasn't John Paul’s way. The way he
’died was the pope’s final lesson for the world.
" As his body slowly failed him, John Paul
jyrsevered and crucially, he did so in public.
He wanted to be a living testament to the
redemptive meaning of suffering. “Human
suffering evokes compassion; it also evokes
aspect, and in its own way it intimidates,” he
iX'rote in 1984. Intimidates, because in suffer-
ing is a great mystery. The mystery, John Paul
taught, is to accept “the truth of love through
the truth of suffering.”
*;• Suffering inspires compassion and in turn
hnust serve for conversion, that is, for the
’rebuilding of goodness,” John Paul wrote,
'paradoxically, the deeper the pain, the greater
4he love it brings forth. Suffering is not sense-
less, he said; rather, it is “present to unleash
•love in the human person.”
The old Pole was bent. He was lame. He
trembled. Sometimes he drooled. But he did
not spare himself the humiliation of dying in
“public in service to his people. And he did not
.’spare his people the challenge sometimes
jptimidating of looking upon his passion with-
out flinching.
Don’t look away, he seemed to say, even at
•4he last, when his voice failed him. Love.
•.Only love.
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you lie to us, we’ll go after you.
Dishonesty takes conduct to the
next level. It shows a failure to
respect the system.”
If the feds are willing to put a
62-year-old homemaking maven
in prison for lying to them, they
surely could do the same to
baseball’s home-run king if they
destroyed man during that press
conference. As much as his
words suggested defeat, they
also illustrated another facet of
hubris: the astounding discon-
nect between his actions and his
perception of his actions —
about who. in the end. is the
agent of his downfall.
In his mind, apparently, the
problem isn’t that he had a nine-
year affair through two mar-
riages. It is that the media aired
and printed the mistress’ story
after verifying its accuracy. The
problem isn’t that he got himself
embroiled in a federal investiga-
tion into illegal steroid use — or
possibly using steroids to help
him hit a record 73 home runs
— but that the media aired and
printed the details. The media,
not he, have caused all the pain
he and his family are now suf-
fering.
“We are responsible in a
way,” said Joe Russoniello, for-
mer U.S. attorney and now dean
of the San Francisco Law
School. “We fill the stadiums.
We encourage owners to wrap
these superstars in bubble-wrap.
As long as they keep filling the
seats, they’ll be provided
lawyers, accountants, whatever
they need.
“It creates a false sense of
security, that they are immune.
That’s not just wrong, it’s dan-
gerous. It encourages the arro-
gance and bizarre behavior like
. the attack on the media
(Tuesday). It’s a rationalization:
‘They’re all out to get me.’”
The penalty for personal pos-
session of steroids, a misde-
meanor, is usually probation.
Bonds was assured if he told the
truth to the grand jury, he would
not face even that. Maybe his
legal troubles would be over
now if he had answered differ-
ently at the grand jury. Maybe
he did indeed tell the whole the
truth, as he maintains, and the
feds are simply out to get him.
In any case, his life has been
changed irrevocably. He is no
longer the same man who stood
eight feet tall at home plate.
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Diary
on tape in 2003 talking about
Bonds’ use of an undetectable
performance-enhancing drug.
— Bonds’ name was on a
“calendar and a schedule”
seized at Anderson’s home that
or even tax evasion but possibly allegedly tracked steroid
for lying to federal agents and regimens.
the grand jury. — Bonds’ ex-girlfriend told
We need look no further back the grand jury he talked about
than last year to find another “ J"
icon — Martha Stewart — who,
through hubris and arrogance,
landed in jail for five months.
Remember, she wasn’t nailed
for insider trading, which was
the focus of the original investi-
gation. She went away for lying
about it to the FBI. The investi-
gation into Bonds seems to be
-----
“The cover-up is usually what so arrogant and condescending,
'-----1- <> „:j n_i—, c.— so cocksure of his own special
status, that the buzz in legal and
baseball circles is that investiga-
Angeles, “not the actual offense, tors are, shall we say, energized
But people think they can get
away with it”
Defense attorney Doron
Weinbetg, who handles white-
collar crimes, said the best advice Giants, he occupies three lock-
any attorney can give a client is
not to lie. “If you take the Fifth
(Amendment not to incriminate
oneself), fine,” he said. “But (the
feds’ position is) don’t lie to us. If because he always wins,
—1-_ *— —n------- because he faces down oppo-
nents and the media and the
pressure better than anyone who
ever picked up a ball, he could
win at anything, including a
legal battle with the feds.
But this superiority might be
exactly what brings him down.
Indeed. Bonds seemed like a
Today is Tuesday, April 5, the 95th day of died in Washington at age 84. In 1943, Humble Oil and Refining
2005. There are 270 days left in the year. In 1975, nationalist Chinese leader Chiang company officials announced that the
Today’s Highlight in History: Kai-shek died at age 87. firm’s production department employees
On April 5, 1792, George Washington cast In 1976, reclusive billionaire Howard all would be put on a 48-hour week basis,
the first presidential veto, rejecting a congres- Hughes died in Houston at age 72. In 1950, “Young Man with a Hom”
~—i -------- c-----------------[n 1997, Allen Ginsberg, the counterculture showing at the Brunson Theater. The
guru who’d shattered conventions as poet lau- movie starred Kirk Douglas, Lauren
reate of the Beat Generation, died in New York Bacall and Doris Day. All seats were
1614, American Indian princess City at age 70. 60 cents.
._+------:.j — i—ui. Ten years ag0: The House of In 2001, Goose Creek school trustees
Representatives passed, 246-188, a tax-cut bill, consider options forreplacing outgoing
the final major item in the Republicans’ superintendent Jerry Roy, who held the
“Contract with America.” post since 1995. Roy had been with the
Five years ago: Ending a two-year investiga- district for 28 years, serving as teacher,
Secretary Alexis Herman of allegations that personnel services. (The school board
she’d solicited $250,000 in illegal campaign later hired Barbara Sultis.)
sentenced to death following their conviction contributions. One year ago, Harris County Sheriff’s
One year ago: A U.S.-Canadian task force deputies confiscated about 100 eight-liner
mit espionage for the Soviet Union; co-defen- investigating the massive power blackout of machines and about $10,000 from two
dant Morton Sobell was sentenced to 30 years Aug. 14, 2003, called for urgent approval of arcades in Lynchburg, making it the
in prison (he was released in 1969). mandatory reliability rules to govern the elec- biggest day for machine confiscation in
In 1964, Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur trie transmission industry. the Baytown area so far this year.
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