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- 11/22/08
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Report: Bonds Admitted to Using Substances SAN FRANCISCO - Baseball star Barry Bonds testified to a grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring, but said he didn't know they were steroids, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. The Giants' slugger told the federal grand jury last year that Greg Anderson, his personal trainer, told him the substances he used in 2003 were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis, according to a transcript of his testimony reviewed by the Chronicle. The substances Bonds described were similar to ones known as "the clear" and "the cream," two steroids from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the lab at the center of the steroid scandal.
posted by LROD at 08:18 AM on December 03
Report: Bonds Admitted to Using Substances SAN FRANCISCO - Baseball star Barry Bonds testified to a grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring, but said he didn't know they were steroids, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. The Giants' slugger told the federal grand jury last year that Greg Anderson, his personal trainer, told him the substances he used in 2003 were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis, according to a transcript of his testimony reviewed by the Chronicle. The substances Bonds described were similar to ones known as "the clear" and "the cream," two steroids from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the lab at the center of the steroid scandal.
posted by LROD at 08:18 AM on December 03
Being bigger doesn't make you a better athlete... Yah! right! and it didn't help Ben Johnson win a gold in the '88 Olymipic, either. (Sad day for Canada and sports in general). For guys like Ben, Barry, and Jason G, I say ban them for life. They took a chance and got caught... proving to everyone that they couldn't either gain or maintain success without cheating. Well, guess what guys. I'd rather watch baseball without 73 homeruns or a sub 8 sec 100m dash. See ya, get out of sports and live life as a personal trainer at Bally's Gym at the local strip mall where you belong with the rest of the trash. (my apologies to all who are patrons or employees at either a Bally's gym or a strip mall).
posted at 11:12 AM on December 03
Are you qualified? The US have changed the criteria for qualifying for their Ryder Cup team. "The new system rewards the game's hottest players," explained PGA of America president Roger Warren. I wonder who they'll get to decide who's hot and who's not...
posted by JJ at 08:48 AM on December 03
The US has a basketball team??? Could've fooled me! Looks like a bunch of millionaires who shoot 30% from the field and 60% from the charity stripe. Shoot that at any playground and the all girl's middle-school team will OWN you.
posted at 11:02 AM on December 03
Hal: What if that meant the majority of the majors? What if the only player left in the major leagues was Ichiro Suzuki? I suppose you'd like that, suggest we throw everyone out, but how would such a massive upheaval protect "the integrity of the game"? So, if you are travelling at lightspeed and I'm travelling at lightspeed too, does it really seem like you're are going that fast? How can you argue that it's acceptable for athletes to compete juiced? Most of them are doing it so let them? You have juiced pitchers pitching to juiced batters who will hit to juiced fielders and juiced fans will cheer them on. LOL! We're all moving at lightspeed, baby. Taking power-enhancing drugs (as they should be rightfully called since, as you are arguing, Ichiro performs with record-breaking precision without them) doesn't make the game more exciting. It may , however drop the number of homeruns hit per year. This won't kill the excitement of baseball. Perhaps it will increase it. We can share the appreciation the these are all guys who work naturally to hone skills that regular guys, like you, dream of having. That's something to appreciate. Hal: And what are the ethical implications when we do have a performance enhancing drug that no more dangerous than OTC flu medication? That has nothing to do with ethics. The ethics in question is cheating: is it acceptable or not.? You don't cheat on SAT's even if you aspire to attend Harvard or Princton. And you don't cheat to get into the major leagues or to break Hank Aaron's record. Cheating is ethically wrong.