Trainer says Bonds used steroids

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNG0D9B5K21.DTL

 

Loooooooong article so I'll just C&P the main part.

Barry Bonds was using an "undetectable" performance-enhancing drug during the 2003 baseball season, his weight trainer claimed in a conversation that was secretly recorded last year and provided to The Chronicle.

 

Trainer Greg Anderson, 38, who is Bonds' longtime friend and a defendant in the BALCO steroids conspiracy case, also said on the recording that he expected to receive advance warning before the San Francisco Giants superstar had to submit to a drug test under what was then baseball's new steroids- testing program.

 

The recording is the most direct evidence yet that Bonds used performance- enhancing drugs during his drive to break the storied record for career home runs. Major League Baseball banned the use of steroids beginning with the 2003 season. It has long been illegal to use them without a doctor's prescription.

 

"The whole thing is, everything that I've been doing at this point, it's all undetectable," Anderson said on the recording of the drug he was providing Bonds. "See the stuff I have, we created it, and you can't buy it anywhere else, can't get it anywhere else, but you can take it the day of (the test), pee, and it comes up perfect."

 

There was another reason the trainer was confident that Bonds' drug use would escape detection: Anderson said he would be tipped off a week or two before Bonds was subjected to steroid testing.

 

"It's going to be in either the end of May or beginning of June, right before the All-Star break, definitely," he was recorded saying. "So after the All-Star break, f -- , we're like f -- ing clear."

 

The recording was provided to The Chronicle by a source familiar with Anderson who asked not to be identified. Two people who know Anderson listened separately to parts of the recording and identified the voice as his.

 

Anderson's lawyer, J. Tony Serra, said Friday that the trainer "categorically denies" providing banned substances to Bonds, and he called the recording a "red herring" that doesn't prove otherwise.

 

After listening to portions of the recording played for him by a Chronicle reporter, Serra said he was unable to identify the person speaking.

 

"We sure as hell can't ID it as our client's voice," Serra said.

 

Bonds' attorney, Michael Rains, lashed out Friday at both the source of the recording and The Chronicle.

 

"The way I view this is as simply another below-the-belt bash of Barry Bonds," Rains said, "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.

 

"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."

 

In addition to Anderson's voice, the 9-minute, 19-second recording contains several unidentifiable voices and noises, as well as the sound of a cell phone ringing. The background conversations can't be made out, and a few of Anderson's comments are not audible.

 

Many of the trainer's comments make it clear Bonds is the subject of the conversation; Anderson described the six-time Most Valuable Player's unique batting achievements in specific detail, including the "73-home-run year" in 2001.

 

Based on Anderson's comments, the recording was made early in the 2003 season, when by Anderson's account Bonds was off to a relatively slow start, recovering from a minor neck injury, hitting below .300, worrying about his performance -- and using a performance-enhancing drug.

[Richard 0]

I'm shocked

[2GOLD 0]

Sorry, still don't buy it.

Not to mention he'd just call Barry...well Barry, and not need to list off his achievements.

 

Wonder if the source recieved any cash for his "tape"

[nogoodnick 0]

Turns out no one cares anymore.

[The Man in Blak 0]

You mean, no one in the mainstream media who's latching their Nielsen ratings onto Bonds' chase for the Babe next year.

[MARTYEWR 0]

I feel rather fishy about a "report" covering an "interview" recorded last year that just *now* got to the San Francisco Chronicle *this* year...

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

Does this even matter anymore? Regardless of what they find, if Bonds breaks the HR record........it's tainted till the end of time anyway.