There's No Evidence Better Than Hearsay Evidence

Scoop Jackson at ESPN.com has it at least partly right.

Bud Selig is going to absolutely nothing about the Bonds allegations, because:

(a) they are hearsay, not the result of any kind of positive test.

(b) investigating further would be to open an whoop-ass sized can of worms, and

(c) nothing Bonds did was against the rules of baseball, which is Bud's domain. Should Bonds be convicted in a criminal court case, the matter would be different. But I don't see that happening, either.

Trying to punish a player, any player, for steroid use, in the absence of an actual failed test, would send Bud into a serious conflict with the MLBPA, one which he wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning in front of an arbitrator.

Getting into a battle that he has no chance of winning isn't Bud's style. Despite the media frenzy, he's not going to do it here.