Barry Bonds Failed Amphetamine Test

[UZI Suicide 0]

Ha ha. Fuck him.

 

NEW YORK — Barry Bonds failed a test for amphetamines last season and originally blamed it on a teammate, the Daily News reported Thursday.

 

When first informed of the positive test, Bonds attributed it to a substance he had taken from teammate Mark Sweeney's locker, the New York City newspaper said, citing several unnamed sources.

 

"I have no comment on that," Bonds' agent Jeff Borris told the Daily News on Wednesday night.

 

"Mark was made aware of the fact that his name had been brought up," Sweeney's agent Barry Axelrod told the Daily News. "But he did not give Barry Bonds anything, and there was nothing he could have given Barry Bonds."

 

Bonds, who always has maintained he never has tested positive for illegal drug use, already is under investigation for lying about steroid use.

 

A federal grand jury is investigating whether the 42-year-old Bonds perjured himself when he testified in 2003 in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid distribution case that he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. The San Francisco Giants slugger told a 2003 federal grand jury that he believed his trainer Greg Anderson had provided him flaxseed oil and arthritic balm, not steroids.

 

Under baseball's amphetamines policy, which went into effect last season, players are not publicly identified for a first positive test. A second positive test for amphetamines results in a 25-game suspension. The first failed steroids test costs a player 50 games.

 

Bonds did not appeal the positive test, according to the Daily News, which made him subject to six drug tests by MLB over the next six months.

 

"We're not in a position to confirm or deny, obviously," MLB spokesman Rich Levin told the Daily News.

 

According to the newspaper, Sweeney learned of the Bonds' positive test from Gene Orza, chief operating officer of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Orza told Sweeney, the paper said, that he should remove any troublesome substances from his locker and should not share said substances. Sweeney said there was nothing of concern in his locker, according to the Daily News' sources.

 

An AP message for Sweeney was not immediately returned late Wednesday.

 

The Giants still are working to finalize complicated language in Bonds' $16 million, one-year contract for next season -- a process that has lasted almost a month since he agreed to the deal Dec. 7 on the last day of baseball's winter meetings.

 

The language still being negotiated concerns the left fielder's compliance with team rules, as well as what would happen if he were to be indicted or have other legal troubles.

 

Borris has declined to comment on the negotiations. He didn't immediately return a message from the AP on Wednesday night.

 

Bonds is set to begin his 15th season with the Giants only 22 home runs shy of surpassing Hank Aaron's career record of 755.

 

Bonds, considered healthy again following offseason surgery on his troublesome left elbow, has spent 14 of his 21 big league seasons with San Francisco and helped the Giants draw 3 million fans in all seven seasons at their waterfront ballpark.

 

After missing all but 14 games in 2005 following three operations on his right knee, Bonds batted .270 with 26 homers and 77 RBIs in 367 at-bats in 2006. He passed Babe Ruth to move into second place on the career home run list May 28.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242983,00.html

[2GOLD 0]

Looks like he picked the wrong season to start using Amphetamines.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

It's fun watching him squirm.

[MFer 0]

BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!! BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!!

[Mik 0]

It's days like today that I am thankful that Jay Mariotti had a heart attack so I don't have to hear his bullshit on ATH.

 

As for the story... yawn.

[Guest Smues]

It's days like today that I am thankful that Jay Mariotti had a heart attack so I don't have to hear his bullshit on ATH.

 

Mariotti had a heart attack? When did this happen?

 

(thanks to work I haven't seen ATH in awhile)

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!! BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!!

That's funny, I didn't know you were from San Francisco. What's the story?

[Ginger Snaps 0]

God, I wish he's just accept some personal responsibility. "Oh, it wasn't mine, it was my teammate's." bullshit.

[Guest Princess Leena]

Bonds should have blamed Some Puerto Rican Guy instead of Some White Guy.

[Ginger Snaps 0]

What an asshole. Why dime out your teammate.

[Mik 0]

It's days like today that I am thankful that Jay Mariotti had a heart attack so I don't have to hear his bullshit on ATH.

 

Mariotti had a heart attack? When did this happen?

 

(thanks to work I haven't seen ATH in awhile)

 

On his way to cover Notre Dame/LSU (I think) he had bad chest pain on the flight. Once he got to New Orleans, it did not subside so they rushed him to the hospital where he had an emergency angioplasty. He's fine, so it's ok to joke about. He should be back on ATH in a month or so, from what I've read.

 

Although I honestly can't stand him.

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

Weeks after the same thing happened to Jim Hendry. Too many Polish sassages, methinks.

[MFer 0]

BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!! BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!!

That's funny, I didn't know you were from San Francisco. What's the story?

Nah, I just know that he's gonna get crucified by everyone and their momma. Sure he probably deserves it, but only he and a few others are the only ones taking the fall for the whole steroid issue.

 

And is anyone really surprised that he threw Sweeney under the bus?(I'll get into the whole throwing ppl under the bus thing in my own thread.)

[Narcoleptic Jumper 0]

Looks like he picked the wrong season to start using Amphetamines.

 

Since no one else did, I just wanted to point out how funny this post was.

[snuffbox 0]

People are STILL defending Bonds?

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

Just Giants fans and black people, mostly.

[Special K 0]

Man, speed and 'roids at his age? He's not going to last long.

[Matt Young 0]

It's days like today that I am thankful that Jay Mariotti had a heart attack so I don't have to hear his bullshit on ATH.

 

Mariotti had a heart attack? When did this happen?

 

(thanks to work I haven't seen ATH in awhile)

 

On his way to cover Notre Dame/LSU (I think) he had bad chest pain on the flight. Once he got to New Orleans, it did not subside so they rushed him to the hospital where he had an emergency angioplasty. He's fine, so it's ok to joke about. He should be back on ATH in a month or so, from what I've read.

 

Although I honestly can't stand him.

 

Mariotti is actually on ATH right now.

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

Say, that gives me an idea. I'm gonna go over to White Sox Interactive and see how many knuckle-draggers say "durr, i wish he woulda died!" and "i bet it was cuz he was scred of ozzie!!1"

 

I also hope that he will then decide to retire or move to a less stressful city.

I guess crow must be loaded with cholesterol.

(Please, no Mariotti-bashing on this thread; let's wait 'til he's back on the job. Otherwise, he'll be sure to cherry-pick quotes, put them in his first column when he returns, and then tell the rest of the world how mean-spirited Sox fans are).

Whatta letdown.