Ah Poor Le Batard - I Knew Him Not So Well

In the latest issue of ESPN: The Magazine (sorry no link) Dan Le Batard comes close to making excuses for Barry Bonds doing steroids. That's not what spurred me to comment though. In the column Le Batard argues that in 1998 a jealous Bonds was confronted with a "Shakespearean decision" regarding using steroids.

Shakespearean decision? How's that Dan? Was it a Merchant of Venice decision (if you prick Bonds with a hypodermic needle of steroids - does he not bleed)? Or more like a Romeo and Juliet decision (with Bonds being a narcissistic Romeo who needs not a Juliet or at the least buys his mistress Juliet a house in Arizona with undeclared cash)? Maybe it was a King Lear type decision (with Bonds being the doddering king who instead of losing his children uses them as human shields at press conferences)?

Just what sort of Shakespearean decision did Bonds have to make Dan? Fact is it was a poor choice of phrase in a poorly thought out and poorly written column. But then again - that's what we've come to expect from the uber jock sniffer Le Batard who wouldn't know a Shakespearean turn of phrase if it bit him in the ass.