Barry Bonds used steroids - trainer

[The Mad Hatter]

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.

You can read the rest of it at

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/b ... ml?cnn=yes. To me this makes him an asterisk star - any records he breaks are tarnished and essentially meaningless.

[TheMissingLink]

Good. Nobody could do that, I mean shit, he was ancient as well.

[LawBeefaroni]

Let me paraphrase and butcher a popular one:

Needing this trainer to tell you Bonds was on steroids is like needing the spoon to tell you that Oprah is fat.

IOW, he is clearly on something. Whether it can be proven in a courtroom is one thing but what is right before your eyes is another.

[EngineNo9]

Word, Lawbeef. I can't believe something like this is a surprise to anybody.

[The Meal]

Word, Lawbeef. I can't believe something like this is a surprise to anybody.

~Neal

[Dramatist]

I wonder how good a player he would have been without enhancements.

I imagine pretty good, it's a shame we'll never know.