October 16, 200421 yr It said that the trainer said on tape that Bonds used an undetectable steroid during the 03 season.
October 16, 200421 yr Bonds used steroids in 2003, trainer says on secret recording Slugger's lawyer sees 'another below-the-belt bash' Barry Bonds was using an "undetectable" performance-enhancing drug during the 2003 baseball season, his weight trainer claimed in a conversation that was secretly recorded last year and provided to The Chronicle. Trainer Greg Anderson, 38, who is Bonds' longtime friend and a defendant in the BALCO steroids conspiracy case, also said on the recording that he expected to receive advance warning before the San Francisco Giants superstar had to submit to a drug test under what was then baseball's new steroids-testing program. The recording is the most direct evidence yet that Bonds used performance-enhancing drugs during his drive to break the storied record for career home runs. Major League Baseball banned the use of steroids beginning with the 2003 season. It has long been illegal to use them without a doctor's prescription. "The whole thing is, everything that I've been doing at this point, it's all undetectable," Anderson said on the recording of the drug he was providing Bonds. "See the stuff I have, we created it, and you can't buy it anywhere else, can't get it anywhere else, but you can take it the day of (the test), pee, and it comes up perfect." [More in URL]
October 16, 200421 yr No, he never took steroids. You can't prove it. Pete Rose never bet on baseball either!
October 16, 200421 yr SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds' personal trainer says in a secretly recorded conversation that the record-breaking slugger used an undetectable performance-enhancing drug during the 2003 season, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. In an article published Saturday, the Chronicle reports that Greg Anderson, Bonds' boyhood friend and a defendant in the BALCO steroids conspiracy case, provided Bonds with steroids that could be taken the day of a test and still not be detected. The Chronicle reports that it received the recording from a source familiar with Anderson who asked not to be indentified, and that two people who know Anderson listened to the tapes and said the voice is his. The paper does not identify the other voices on the recording or report who made the recording and the circumstances under which it was made. Anderson's attorney, J. Tony Serra, said Friday that Anderson "categorically denies" providing Bonds with illegal substances. After listening to portions of the recording, Serra said he couldn't identify the voice as Anderson's. Bonds' attorney, Michael Rains, said he views "& this is as simply another below-the-belt bash of Barry Bonds, which as I understand it is supposedly the product of what has to be an illegally recorded telephone conversation supposedly between Greg Anderson and an anonymous criminal." Asked for comment Friday by the Chronicle about Bonds' alleged use of banned drugs, Rob Manfred, a Major League Baseball executive vice president, said, "& Whether or not he was using an undetectable performance-enhancing substance, I and the commissioner will have no comment." In the recording, the person said to be Anderson says that not only is the substance provided Bonds undetectable, but that through contacts in the testing labs, he would know when Bonds was going to be tested, a claim that Manfred refuted. During the 9-minute, 19-second recording, there are background conversations that can't be made out, and some of Anderson's comments are not audible, according to the Chronicle. However, the newspaper reports that many of Anderson's comments make it clear that the subject of the conversation is Bonds. Bonds has also been a subject of interest to federal investigators probing the BALCO lab in Burlingame, Calif., and international sports-doping, the Chronicle notes. On the recording, Anderson indicates that the drug he was giving Bonds was the same as the drug being used by unnamed Olympians who had passed multiple drug tests. Anderson, BALCO founder Victor Conte and two other men were indicted in February on steroid conspiracy charges for allegedly distributing drugs that included a supposedly undetectable steroid called "the clear" to stars of baseball, the National Football League and Olympic track and field. They have pleaded not guilty. C/O ESPN
October 16, 200421 yr Who didn't see this coming? 593511[/snapback] Mays24Bonds25 :plain 593513[/snapback] Stevie Wonder... :plain
October 16, 200421 yr This was posted on another board, which says it perfectly This is just more of the same. Another anonymous source......provides a year and a half old tape, with a person two other anonymous people identify as Greg Anderson's voice, bragging about Bonds taking steroids and bragging that the steroids are undetectable....while also bragging that he gets tipped off on when MLB would do the testing. (Why would you want to be tipped off if your product is undetectable?) Bonds took steroids when he got off to a "slow start" in 2003? Bonds batted .303 with 8 HRs and 16 RBI in April of 2003......and only had 3 days where his OPS was under 1.000 and only 9 days when his OPS was under 1.100. Some slow start. Even IF the tape is of Greg Anderson, it just sounds like either a blow-hard bragging to friends or a salesman trying to push a product. And we all know....no one ever stretches the truth under those circumstances. Right? We will all believe what we want.....but as a former professional, who has been taught to look at all "evidence" with a critical eye.....I would sure like at least one source to not be "anonymous". I would like to know the context of the tape, the source's motivation for providing the tape a year and a half later and why on earth anyone would be secretly recording a conversation in early 2003 (unless it was the Federal agent....and if it was the Fed and he is so emotionally tied up in the case that he is providing info contrary to court order he has no credibility and the IRS has a BIG problem). When "evidence" creates more questions than it answers......you have to be real careful in believing it. And most of all......just once.....just once, I would like for the source of the story to NOT be the San Francisco Enquirer, I mean Chronicle. Wouldn't you think some of the other millions of media workers in the world would break a story JUST ONCE? The news media in New York is just relentless...Gary Sheffield has admitted to using steroids.....you know they are constantly trying to dig up dirt. Doesn't it strike anyone as strange that no one besides the Chronicle is ever able to find the dirt? And sinker.......even if it is all factual and every single rumor is true.....YES it is still JUST a IRS/Tax case. I told you all a year ago that the tax/money laundering case was by FAR more serious than a first time drug offense......nothing has changed. First time drug offenses....even with this much publicity are a dime a dozen and usually result in a slap on the wrist.....thats why they chose IRS to take the lead in this case. And as far as MLB goes.....they already said Sheffield is off the hook because it happened over a year ago. MLB just doesn't care one way or the other. I still have no idea if Bonds took steroids......and this article does not provide anywhere near the "smoking gun". I sure wish I knew the Chronicle's motivation for this vendetta.....and who is leaking the "information" and whether the source is being paid or just being a "good samaritan". That would probably make a lot of things much more clear. As of right now......its clear as mud.
October 17, 200421 yr oh i didnt see this.. my bad. anyway, isn't it obvious? Giants fans will still probably be in denial.. sad.
October 17, 200421 yr My impression of Mays24Bonds25: 593825[/snapback] This is mine: 593826[/snapback] :lol :lol :lol
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