Bill Plaschke of the L.A. Times puts into prospective the Bonds' scandal and MLB's role in it:

Bud Selig's reign has been so ineffectual he could only watch as his sport's most celebrated player blatantly broke laws while chasing its most hallowed record?

The evidence released Wednesday in advance of Barry Bonds' upcoming perjury trial tells us more about the demons of the game than the sickness of the man.

That Bonds used steroids? We knew that. Nothing can shock us there anymore, not after spending years staring at the size of his head and the length of his homers.

That baseball allowed it to happen? We'll never get used to that part.

Certainly, Selig, a decent man with good intentions, fought to catch the crooks while the union fought to protect them, resulting in nothing happening until it was 762 home runs too late.

But, goodness, according to Wednesday's evidence, baseball was not only fooled, it was humiliated, and you wonder how a man who makes so much money could rule so cheaply.

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