Opening Day can't come soon enough.

According to two sources familiar with Bosch’s operation...Gio Gonzalez...did not receive banned substances from Bosch or the clinic.

Irrefutable proof.

Sources said the players...were on a list as having received performance-enhancing drugs, although the documents are not proof that the players either received or used PEDs.

Clear as mud. They're on a list as "having received", but there is no proof that they "received". So the list is worthless.

Why are we wasting our time with this wild goose chase again?

I actually got one right on the 'prediction' thread of the next names:


14. KJOK Posted: February 07, 2013 at 12:23 AM (#4364692)

My money is on that muscle god Blake Tekotte.
Well, he is the only one left I think that is a client of ACES and went to Univ of Fla.

Some other guesses:
Juaquin Benoit
Shane Victorino
Raul Ibanez
Placido Polanco
Marlon Byrd
Brandon Phillips
Heath Bell
Everth Cabrera

As a nats fan, I'll take it

Why are we wasting our time with this wild goose chase again?

Think of the children! Or something. Opening day. Please.

I think this might be the first time that a player denied using PEDs after his name was discovered in a customer log and it turned out he might be telling the truth.

SOMEONE CHECK HIS BACK ACNE FIRST

Serious question: What services did Bosch offer that were on the straight and narrow?

IIRC, BALCO had an entire operation of perfectly legal, state of the art health measures like specialized vitamin & exercise regimens and all sorts of sleep and blood monitoring (not that anybody who was interested in those services turned down the other stuff, too.)

Serious question: What services did Bosch offer that were on the straight and narrow?

Cutting edge diet plans and undetectable legal substances.

Bosch was running an anti-aging clinic offering all sorts of silly stuff to whoever was willing to pay -- some of those regular folks were the sources for the original article. Sometimes it really is flaxseed oil.

Sometimes it really is flaxseed oil.

And considering how seedy some of these operators are, there's a non-zero probability of getting flaxseed oil (or some other cheap substitute) while paying for some form of PED.

Sometimes it really is flaxseed oil.

I suppose you're right, but this begs the question of "why not just ask the team trainer?" It would seem to me that a player looking to get a legal edge would be best off just asking either a team trainer/doctor or someone in a similar capacity attached to the Union.

I can't help but root for Gio here. I'm certainly no PED dove, but this has devolved into a witch hunt (for some time now.)

Some other guesses:
Juaquin Benoit
Shane Victorino
Raul Ibanez
Placido Polanco
Marlon Byrd
Brandon Phillips
Heath Bell
Everth Cabrera

As a Padres fan, this is positively laughable how many of our players keep showing up on these lists (but no Chase Headley...yet).

The most laughable thing, however, was when Marlon Byrd started off last season so poorly for the Cubs (3 singles in 43 AB before they dumped him on the Bosox - that's right, 3 more hits than I had at the time) - then Byrd's name turned up for PEDs and he actually held a press conference declaring that he wasn't taking any performance-enhancing substances. Well it was painfully obvious that whatever he was taking wasn't enhancing his performance, so he should have gotten his money back!