Bonds used steroids in 2003, trainer says on secret recording

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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.

I don't think it big news to anyone that Bonds has used steroids.Without Steroids the guy will never hit over 600HR

 

dukey, could you post the link of the pics where he is shooting up or popping pills? preesh.

 

you really need to make this your sig line

 

no shit :xyzthumbs

 

face it dude, its a ticking bomb. Its all going to be out in the open. Barroid Bonds cheats.

 

when someone can post a link where he is convicted, either by mlb or the law, or pics of him popping pills or shooting up, then i'll be the first back in here to admit it.

until then, all you bonds haters just keep on with the hearsay.

 

>>Bonds used steroids

 

sweet, mags is gonna post the link. thanks pal. :xyzthumbs

 

my question is: when did bonds grace your forehead with a mushroom stamp? why are you riding his cock? everyone and their brother is convinced hes on roids.

 

i'm indifferent. don't love him, don't hate him. what i do hate, are all the fans who DON'T like him have already incarcerated him and thrown away the key. get over yourselves people.