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When asked about Anderson’s notations such as, “Clomifend off-season and regular season 100 pills for $100,” Bonds pleads ignorance. Says he doesn’t know what Clomifend is. On page 53 of the deposition when Bonds is asked, “Do you know what Clomifend is?” he answers, “Never heard of it.” When asked if he ever took it Bonds says, “Never heard of it.” When told that it is a fertility drug and not something an athlete would typically take Bonds replies, “Never heard of it. Not aware of it.” Bonds does not say that he didn’t take Clomifend or Modanifil – a stimulant favored by Victor Conte – but repeats over and over that, “I’ve never heard of it.”

When faced with this question, “Let me be point blank about this. Did he ever give you anything you knew to be a steroid? Did he ever give you a steroid?” Bonds responded, “I don’t think Greg would do anything like that to me and jeopardize our friendship. I don’t think he would do that.” When asked again to repeat this, if Anderson gave him steroids Bonds says, “Not that I know of.” Bonds certainly does not say – in response to this very clear and specific question – that Anderson didn’t give him steroids.

Bonds states on page 56 of the transcripts that he is suspicious that the substances given to him by Anderson might, in fact, be steroids. When asked about the likelihood of Anderson giving him steroids, the lawyer asked for clarification on Bonds’ answer of, “Not that I know of.”

Bonds says that he has “suspicions over these 2 items right here.” He goes on to say, “And that’s the only reason. But I haven’t asked him (Anderson). I haven’t gotten there. So I’m suspicious over this stuff right here." When asked when Bonds started having these suspicions, Bonds say that since the investigation started he started to wonder, “What is this stuff.”

And yet he never stopped taking these substances or asked his bestest childhood buddy what he was taking. He went on to say that, “If it’s a steroid it ain’t working.”

Bonds testimony is filled with these kinds of childlike responses. And upon reading the questions and Bonds’ answers, his legal team’s position that the government asked questions that were unclear and confusing is even more preposterous. When pressed about Anderson providing him with testosterone and questioned about notations that indicate Bonds was given a urine test on a certain date to check for his testosterone level, Bonds veers into the land of incoherence when he talks about Anderson’s personal life and that he lives out of his car half of the time.