White-Hot Rhymes
July / August, 2009
Playing the race card or any other card isn't going to change the fact that former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds used steroids (The Persecution of Barry Bonds, April). Anyone who would defend him, even if only to vilify the BALCO prosecutors, shouldn't call himself a baseball fan. There may be a lot of skeletons in the closet of Jeff Novitzky, who pursued Bonds and other players while working as an investigator for the IRS, but no kids are looking up to Novitzky as any kind of hero...
