Recent indications are up to 50 percent of the players in the 90s were using steroids. It puts a real cloud over that period in baseball.
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If you had a jury and said, 'We have one segment of evidence and we're going to present it,' that would be it. There is nothing else to bet on but baseball during the summer months. The bookie told us Rose called him every night. So we had his end of the conversation. We had the phone records. I mean how clear can it be.Fay Vincent
He's in a very tough situation, and that's why I think it's the worst problem for baseball since the Black Sox. Because it's so amorphous and so big and so murky. ... For the first time Selig has the awkward position of having to authorize an investigation where he may be a target. No commissioner has ever been in that position.
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You have to focus on the one guy. Otherwise, you'd never finish the job and it would wind up costing millions and millions. But you've got facts to go on now, and it would behoove Bonds to cooperate. I think he really has to cooperate if he wants his records to count for anything. Stonewalling won't work.
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Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
Fay Vincent
I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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