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First note, I am not here to defend Barry Bonds one bit, I think that what he has done to baseball is a travesty and he should face the facts. The contents of the new book called "Game of Shadows" written by co-authors Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, allege that Bonds did the following:
- Through research, Bonds developed a deep knowledge of performance enhancers. He even talked, through third parties, to medical authorities who advised him not to use steroids.
- He began with Winstrol after the 1998 season. He also worked out extensively, sometimes spending 12 hours a day at the gym where he met the Weight Guru, who turned out to be Greg Anderson.
- He also took Deca-Durabolin. By 2001, the authors allege, he was using two designer steroids referred to as the Cream and the Clear, as well as insulin, human growth hormone, testosterone decanoate (a fast-acting steroid known as Mexican beans) and trenbolone, a steroid created to improve the muscle quality of cattle. That's the same year Bonds broke McGwire's single-season home run record (70) by belting 73.
- Bonds had a relationship with Kimberly Bell, a woman he met in the Candlestick Park parking lot in 1994 while he was married. Bonds even put a down payment on a house for Bell in Arizona from monies he made from card-show appearances (and didn't report as income). She claims he later threatened to kill her.
- According to the excerpt, Anderson told an acquaintance, who was wearing a wire in 2003 that: "The whole thing is, everything I've been doing, it's all undetectable. The stuff I have, we created it. You can't buy it anywhere else; you can't get it anywhere else. You can take [it] the day of [a drug test], pee, and it comes up clear.
I am sure that the co-authors did their homework and that it is all legitimate but one fact remains at least some truth in defense of Barry Bonds. Grand Jury Testimony is supposed to be sealed and not to be republished what so ever. The federal judge in the Balco doping case was clear about this. Someone, who I am sure will remain anonymous, leaked the testimony, the first illegal act. Once the San Francisco Chronicle got a hold of this sealed testimony, they wrote the story about the leak, which while not illegal, should not be allowed because it the information was from an illegal source, that is my point.
If Bonds, and others, are to face charges on doping, and I am sure they deserve it, then the fact of matter is that so should the reporters of the grand jury story, which I am sure are the two co-authors of this book, deserve to be punished for their crime. Maybe the book is right and all the facts are true, I mean Michael Moore's movie was 100% true right!
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