Barry Bonds's Steroid Use Exposed

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/03/06/news.excerpt/index.html

 

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Depending on the substance, Bonds used the drugs in virtually every conceivable form: injecting himself with a syringe or being injected by his trainer, Greg Anderson, swallowing pills, placing drops of liquid under his tongue, and, in the case of BALCO's notorious testosterone-based cream, applying it topically.

wow, this guy was a fucking junkie

 

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The authors describe how Bonds turned to steroids after the 1998 season because he was jealous of McGwire. Bonds hit 37 home runs in '98 -- a nice total and the fourth most of his career at that point -- but he was ignored by fans and the media who were captivated by McGwire's 70 home runs and his duel for the record with Sammy Sosa, who hit 66 that year.

According to the book, Bonds, in comments to his mistress, Kimberly Bell, often dismissed McGwire with racially-charged remarks such as, "They're just letting him do it because he's a white boy." But Bonds looked at McGwire and his hulking physique and decided he needed to dramatically increase his muscle mass to compete with him.

hahahaha

 

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The more I keep reading, the more amazed I get, Bonds even took a womans infertility drug

 

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Whereas Anderson's drug acumen had been forged in the gym culture, Conte and his chemists brought Bonds to another level of sophistication, by prescribing him elaborate cocktails of drugs designed to be even more effective and undetectable. For instance, the authors write that in 2002, when Bonds won his fifth MVP Award and had a .700 on-base percentage in the World Series, he was fueled by meticulous three-week cycles in which he injected growth hormone every other day, took the Cream and the Clear in the days in between, and capped the cycle with Clomid. The cycle was followed by one week off. The authors write that Anderson usually administered the drugs to Bonds at Bonds' home, using a needle to inject the growth hormone and a syringe without a needle to squirt the Clear under his tongue.

In addition to detailing the drug usage, the excerpt portrays Bonds as a menacing boor, a tax cheat and an adulterer given to (probably because of the rampant steroid use) sexual dysfunction, hair loss and wild mood swings that included periods of rage. The authors report that Bonds gave Bell, with whom he continued his affair after his second marriage in January 1998, $80,000 in cash in 2001 from memorabilia income not reported to the IRS. Theirs was a volatile relationship. Bell retained answering machine recordings of him after he threatened to kill her, remarking that if she disappeared no one would be able to prove he even knew her.

what a nice guy

 

[AmerikazMost]

This makes my offseason for baseball. I'm going to buy this book, and every time I type the name Barry Bonds*, I'm going to put an asterisk by it.

 

[2PacThug4Life]

Why is everyone out to get Barry . When he came back at tha end of last year, he was still hitting bombs like he did when he was "using".

 

[AmerikazMost]

^ I bet you that Barry* was still using HGH or some other undetectable steroid.

 

[Butt Rubber]

MLB wasn't testing for HGH last year, its very possible Bonds* was using that last year


and if not, its possible his body was just in good enough shape to still be able to compete (a la Jason Giambi or Pudge Rodriguez)

 

[Dogmatic187]

I had a suspison that he was jucing, but damn those allegations are just too synical and outrageous you'd have to consider them to be true.

 

[AmerikazMost]

MLB wasn't testing for HGH last year, its very possible Bonds* was using that last year


and if not, its possible his body was just in good enough shape to still be able to compete (a la Jason Giambi or Pudge Rodriguez)

exactly



And to me, the best proof that Bonds* had been using steroids was his shitty recovery from his injuries. All the steroid use fucked up Barry's* body, and he couldn't recover naturally or without the drugs.

 

[ARon]

^Or his age, but whatever.
Until he openly admits it, or fails a test this is nothing.

I'll still be watching and happy when he hits 716.

 

[ARon]

Bill Plaschke brought up a good arguement on Around the Horn. Why wasn't this published in The Chronicle. He said maybe it didnt pass the news papers muster as printing facutal stuff. He said when these two reporters first reported on Bonds they were looking to win a Pulitzer and they didnt get considered so its like they did this to win. It makes sense but then again, who are we or them to speculate. I mean, if this new info was in Grand Jury testimony, it was recorded and has been around for a while, why is it jsut coming out now, especially when there is a book to be sold. It makes it hard to believe but at the same time it is not. So I think I will stand neutral in the situation and just enjoy watchin him hopefully break records.

 

[hizzle?]

lol @ Bonds*

 

[AmerikazMost]

^Or his age, but whatever.
Until he openly admits it, or fails a test this is nothing.

I'll still be watching and happy when he hits 716.

Me too. I can't wait to see the list:

All-Time Home Run Leaders
Hank Aaron - 755
Barry Bonds - 716*
Babe Ruth - 714
Willie Mays - 660
Sammy Sosa - 588*

 

[AmerikazMost]

Bill Plaschke brought up a good arguement on Around the Horn. Why wasn't this published in The Chronicle. He said maybe it didnt pass the news papers muster as printing facutal stuff. He said when these two reporters first reported on Bonds they were looking to win a Pulitzer and they didnt get considered so its like they did this to win. It makes sense but then again, who are we or them to speculate. I mean, if this new info was in Grand Jury testimony, it was recorded and has been around for a while, why is it jsut coming out now, especially when there is a book to be sold. It makes it hard to believe but at the same time it is not. So I think I will stand neutral in the situation and just enjoy watchin him hopefully break records.

Does it matter how it's released if it's still the truth?

 

[Butt Rubber]

^Or his age, but whatever.
Until he openly admits it, or fails a test this is nothing.

I'll still be watching and happy when he hits 716.

actually 715 is the one that matters

and this is "nothing"? how so? all the proof you need is in this book.

by that logic we might as well forget the civil war took place because nobody is alive to prove the battles happened, all we have are dead bodies, battle sites and history books. maybe they all just had a mass suicide, huh?

 

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Me too. I can't wait to see the list:

All-Time Home Run Leaders
Hank Aaron - 755
Barry Bonds - 716*
Babe Ruth - 714
Willie Mays - 660
Sammy Sosa - 588*

pretty soon a clean A-rod will grace that list as well

 

[yak pac fatal]

omg thats sick, he eats those like m&ms

 

[LAZARU$]

who gives a shit.bonds is a legend already.