BALCO Founder Victor Conte on NPR radio

I'm not that concerned about whether Victor Conte has told the truth about Marion Jones and Barry Bonds. I want to know what Vince Reed thinks.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfield/news/story?id=2915341

Well, I guess we know for sure now that it isn't Marion Jones paying for Victor Conte's shiny car. No wonder he selectively threw her under the Bentley, while protecting Barry Bonds. Jones didn't have the money to buy him off!

Given how stingy Bonds gets at tax time, and how he's pinched pennies with his ex-wife and kids and with Kimberly Bell, you have to figure Conte has some good shit hanging over his head to get the cheapskate to buy his silence. Although this is a bit difference, isn't it? Even the meanest modern-day Scrooge is going to pay hush money to avoid being exposed as a fraud and being sent to jail. I still wish I was a fly on the wall each time Bonds has to wipe the cobwebs off his checkbook to pay off Conte (and Greg Anderson?). Or does he pay him in small unmarked bills, the way he probably did when he paid for his steroids?

Of course I don't know for sure that it's a cash-for-silence deal, but it would seem in character for Conte, wouldn't it?

 

Do you have any experience with them? Just asking. Can you refute what Ragu says or are you speaking on principle? Just asking. I have no dog in this hunt and couldn't give two shits about any of the people involved (though I will tell you I do have experience with Ragu and would go to war with the guy).

 

Well, he wasn't attacking another member. I think he's allowed to express whatever opinion he wants about public figures. It's not terribly uncommon.
If he attacked you, it's one thing. He did not. You just got awfully defensive. I'm curious if you had the personal knowledge of these folks? That's all I was asking.

 

I dunno, cream. I believe my post read about as speculatively as your posts about Mark Fainuru-Wada and Lance Williams (and Jeff Novitsky, for that matter, who is under attack from you, when the most damning thing he's done was sending a bunch of drug dealers to prison). The only difference is that when I take a few leaps (and I said I don't know for sure if what I was suggesting is true) to suggest that Victor Conte might be being paid off by Barry Bonds to stay silent (unlike Marion Jones, who he ratted out, and who just happens to be broke), I'm talking about an admitted felon with a nauseating history of self-promotion and chicanary who the public doesn't trust very much.

Those two reporters, to the contrary, have impeccable credentials and have proven themselves to be men of integrity to most people not named creamora.

As for me being a skinny and weak little punk moron, I can be anything you like on a message board... the same way you can be anything you like on a message board.

 

OK. Your opinion. No more valid, no more right or wrong than his. His opinion, no more right or wrong or valid than yours.

Personal attacks on members are one thing.
Personal attacks on public figures are quite another. Happens a lot around here - politicians, athletes, actors, musicians, you name it.