Paging creamora... Patrick Arnold says Victor Conte is full of it

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7058264

Is the chemist who put BALCO in business, in cahoots with the investigator and the prosecutor and the reporters and the girlfriend with the evidence (and anyone else I am missing who has been smeared by you on threads on here) in a conspiracy to frame Barry Bonds?

Well, at least Conte released a statement calling him a liar... Just like EVERYONE ELSE is a liar.

 

Objection sustained.

Good thing this isn't a court room...

Just a place where people can look at all of the people lined up, and all of the evidence that keeps coming out, and make reasonable conclusions about who is telling the truth and who is lying.

 

Why should he? He did something illegal. He got nailed. He did his time. Unlike Victor Conte, he hasn't been a guy seeking attention and saying ANYTHING (and saying things that make people suspect he is lying). This is just a guess, but what if he saw that idiocy by Gary Sheffield on Real Sports the prior week, said to himself, "This fuckstick should keep his mouth shut, like I have, rather than saying dumbass things like, 'Steroids are something you shoot in your butt,' " which make him look worse"? And the next week when Real Sports called Arnold looking for comment, he said, "What the hell? With Conte lying his ass off--selectively ratting out some clients and protecting others--and with Sheffield being this much of a buffoon, I am just going to go on the show and be honest."

If he was making this shit up with nefarious motives, most people would also guess he'd put smoking guns in Conte's and Bonds' hands, such as, "Oh yeah. I saw old Vic hand some steroids to Barry, and Barry pulled down his pants in front of me, handed me a syringe and asked me if I would be a pal and stick it in his ass for him."

Instead, all Arnold said was that he heard Conte "raving" about "the program," which included the drugs that Arnold created and gave to him (this is not hearsay, by the way). He said that Conte boasted about Barry being on "the program" and benefiting from it. Given what Victor Conte has shown the public, with the constant seeking of media attention and the never-ending salesmanship, doesn't the thought of him "raving" about his "program" seem more than plausible?

Arnold comes across like a guy telling the truth, because he said he didn't personally see Bonds taking the stuff. he was clear about that. But he knew about it and was an integral part of it. And his message was, "Use your fucking brains. Flaxseed oil and 'I didn't know' defenses? Let's be real!"

Maybe my bullshit detectors are way off on this one, but I have tended to have decent bullshit detectors, and in this case they are telling me that is a guy who is telling the truth...