So this is what the BALCO boss did in prison
The Bee's Matt James has a nice piece today that reveals that Victor Conte, the founder of the Bay Area lab that spawned the latest sleazy chapter in the sports steroid mess, had a very nice time in prison. Conte tells James it was more like summer camp and the four months whizzed by. He could have played tennis, basketball, racquetball, softball, soccer, horseshoes, bocce ball.
Conte served his time at what he called a Club Fed near Bakersfield. Conte, who is from Fresno, is in town this weekend to attend the Flex Wheeler Classic, the bodybuilding event started by Ken "Flex" Wheeler, who is also from Fresno and also went to McLane High School.
Here are a few paragraphs from James' column:
At the prison camp, Conte says, he was invited to an organized debate as to whether baseball players accused of using steroids should be allowed in the Hall of Fame."My position," he says, "was that they should, because the overwhelming majority of the players that are in the Hall of Fame used performance-enhancing drugs, in my opinion."
Conte's team won, probably because he went on some sort of filibuster and the other team tapped out.