Food for Thought

Ken Rosenthal quotes agent Seth Levinson on a potential Bonds investigation:

Would Bonds be banned? Would his achievements be stricken from the record books? Would the Giants forfeit past games in which he had played? Selig likely would not address such questions until an investigation was complete.

Agent Seth Levinson, whose client list includes Cardinals third baseman Scott Rolen, White Sox right-hander Javier Vazquez and Mets left fielder Cliff Floyd, raises additional concerns.

"It is fundamental fairness for a person to be able to confront his accusers," Levinson says. "Therefore, all of the anonymous sources in the book (Game of Shadows) will have to be identified. Thereafter, the credibility and motives of all accusers will be scrutinized. Those people with an ax to grind whether it is a criminal defendant who cut a deal, a scorned girlfriend, etc., should not be enough to convict or penalize Bonds. MLB and the federal prosecutors will need documentation, witnesses, video, statements by those people who have no vested interest, for this matter to go further. Absent credible evidence — and anonymous sources are not credible — this potentially can become a witch hunt. If MLB goes after Bonds they had better get him, or they will have unfairly and unjustly derailed a man's pursuit of an all-time record and brought further pain and embarrassment to the game."