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10-16-2004, 10:23 PM
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Report: Trainer says Bonds used steroids in '03
Posted: Saturday October 16, 2004 2:51PM;
Updated: Saturday October 16, 2004 2:51PM
SAN FRANCISCO (Ticker) -- Perhaps San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds was using performance-enhancing drugs after all.
According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle, Bonds' personal weight trainer, Greg Anderson, claimed in a recorded conversation last year that the slugger used an undetectable performance-enhancing drug during the 2003 season.
"The whole thing is, everything that I've been doing at this point, it's all undetectable," Anderson said in a recording provided to the newspaper. "See, the stuff I have, we created it, and you can't buy it anywhere else but you can take it the day of [the test], pee, and it comes up perfect."
Bonds, who has frequently denied using steroids, hit 45 homers in 130 games in 2003. This past season, the 40-year-old batted .362 with 45 home runs and 101 RBI in 147 games and became only the third major leaguer to reach the 700-homer plateau in a career.
The 38-year-old Anderson is a defendant in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) steroids conspiracy case, in which Bonds, along with Gary Sheffield and Jason Giambi of the New York Yankees, has testified. Anderson was charged with taking part in a steroid distribution ring that provided the substances to professional athletes.
The federal probe of BALCO, a California nutritional supplement lab, has put MLB under scrutiny and was a key component to Congress passing The Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 on Monday.
Anderson's lawyer, J. Tony Serra, said Friday that the trainer "categorically denies" providing banned substances to Bonds and called the recording a "red herring" that does not prove otherwise.
Last week, Sheffield, who has trained with Bonds, admitted in an interview with Sports Illustrated to unknowingly using a steroid cream but was not punished by Major League Baseball.
Bonds' attorney Michael Reins considers the report "another below-the-belt bash" at his client.
"The circumstances that surround both the recording and the reporting of this supposed conversation, while perhaps appropriate fodder for the front page of the Enquirer, deserve no place in a responsible publication like the Chronicle and are unworthy of any substantive response other than scorn and contempt," Reins said.
In 2001, Bonds set the major league record for home runs in a season with 73, eclipsing the mark of 70 reached by Mark McGwire three years earlier. He has won the National League Most Valuable Player award six times and is a favorite to win a seventh this year.
Bonds, who underwent arthroscopic knee surgery earlier this week, has hit at least 45 home runs in each of the last five years after reaching that mark just once in his first 14 major league seasons. He is 52 home runs shy of matching Henry Aaron's career record of 755.
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Report: Trainer says Bonds used steroids in '03
Posted: Saturday October 16, 2004 2:51PM;
Updated: Saturday October 16, 2004 2:51PM
SAN FRANCISCO (Ticker) -- Perhaps San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds was using performance-enhancing drugs after all.
According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle, Bonds' personal weight trainer, Greg Anderson, claimed in a recorded conversation last year that the slugger used an undetectable performance-enhancing drug during the 2003 season.
"The whole thing is, everything that I've been doing at this point, it's all undetectable," Anderson said in a recording provided to the newspaper. "See, the stuff I have, we created it, and you can't buy it anywhere else but you can take it the day of [the test], pee, and it comes up perfect."
Bonds, who has frequently denied using steroids, hit 45 homers in 130 games in 2003. This past season, the 40-year-old batted .362 with 45 home runs and 101 RBI in 147 games and became only the third major leaguer to reach the 700-homer plateau in a career.
The 38-year-old Anderson is a defendant in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) steroids conspiracy case, in which Bonds, along with Gary Sheffield and Jason Giambi of the New York Yankees, has testified. Anderson was charged with taking part in a steroid distribution ring that provided the substances to professional athletes.
The federal probe of BALCO, a California nutritional supplement lab, has put MLB under scrutiny and was a key component to Congress passing The Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 on Monday.
Anderson's lawyer, J. Tony Serra, said Friday that the trainer "categorically denies" providing banned substances to Bonds and called the recording a "red herring" that does not prove otherwise.
Last week, Sheffield, who has trained with Bonds, admitted in an interview with Sports Illustrated to unknowingly using a steroid cream but was not punished by Major League Baseball.
Bonds' attorney Michael Reins considers the report "another below-the-belt bash" at his client.
"The circumstances that surround both the recording and the reporting of this supposed conversation, while perhaps appropriate fodder for the front page of the Enquirer, deserve no place in a responsible publication like the Chronicle and are unworthy of any substantive response other than scorn and contempt," Reins said.
In 2001, Bonds set the major league record for home runs in a season with 73, eclipsing the mark of 70 reached by Mark McGwire three years earlier. He has won the National League Most Valuable Player award six times and is a favorite to win a seventh this year.
Bonds, who underwent arthroscopic knee surgery earlier this week, has hit at least 45 home runs in each of the last five years after reaching that mark just once in his first 14 major league seasons. He is 52 home runs shy of matching Henry Aaron's career record of 755.
© 2004 SportsTicker Enterprises, LP