Barry Bonds' Grand Jury Testimony Has Been Made Public
Published March 01, 2008
Other inconsistencies are revealed when we learn that Bonds doesn’t trust any doctor other than his own personal physician. Actually here’s what Bonds said, “We don’t trust the ball team. We don’t trust baseball. I don’t trust their doctors or nothing.” He doesn’t clarify who “we” is.
So the people who made him wealthy aren’t trustworthy, but a guy who lives out of his car, is a bodybuilder-type, give him random substances for free and takes his blood and urine is trustworthy?
When pressed on detailed notations dealing with drugs for someone referred to as “Barry Bond,” “Barry B,” and “BB,” Bonds plays the ignorance card. When asked about apparent drug test notations Bonds is in the dark. He repeats that he’s never paid Anderson for anything except training, and he only paid him a paltry $15,000 for the year. What a cheapskate, Bonds made $17 million that year. Andy Pettitte was giving Brian McNamee over 60 large a year for his “services.” But I digress…
Faced with urine test results that show “Barry Bond” failing a drug test for testosterone, methenolone and nandrolone, Barry Bonds says he never knew anything about anything. He said his best pal, the pauper Greg Anderson who was basically training the multi-millionaire for free, never mentioned anything about these tests performed for BALCO Labs by Quest Diagnostics. The real “BB” never knew anything about these potentially damaging tests until he sat for the deposition and was given these documents by the prosecutors.
And so it goes after the break, and throughout the remaining testimony. Bonds plays the ignorance card and proclaims his loyalty to Anderson, who Bonds basically portrays as a clueless lapdog loser for whom Bonds would do all kinds of favors, like work with Victor Conte, do advertisements, conduct interviews and give Conte and Anderson blood and urine tests at their discretion. Knowing what we know about Bonds – the paranoid, non-trusting, spoiled and indulged brat – it’s impossible to believe this scenario.
As the days go on, no doubt there will be more analysis of Bonds’ testimony. But the bottom line is that Bonds’ story has more holes in it than the current San Francisco Giants line-up and, as this story progresses, the paths of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds will be closer than it was at any time during the productive phases of their careers. And they may wind up in the same place, which is not necessarily Cooperstown.
Sal Marinello is a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and Certified Personal Trainer, a U.S.A. Weightlifting Certified Coach, a full-time, private Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach, an assistant football coach and a Head Strength Coach for a suburban New Jersey High School. He writes a lot and has no free time. 
- Barry Bonds' Grand Jury Testimony Has Been Made Public
- Published: March 01, 2008
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- Section: Sports
- Filed Under: Culture: Crime and Court, Sci/Tech: Health/Fitness, Sports: Baseball
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with bonds' statements that he never paid anderson/conte or balco for anything - except the 15 grand one year and a 20 grand bonus for anderson - i wonder if the feds have any info that indicates this not to be the case.
it sounds like bonds runs a tight plantation.
Hey Sal, I enjoyed reading about this. Thanks for bringing it to BC.
Wow, RJ, what a piece of work Bonds is, eh?
BB certainly knows this stuff inside n out. Lying well is hard to do. BB aint very good at it. He can sure smack the ball though. My beef is with all of the other many-user-players getting off scott free. That one high paid guy in NY is a great example. My question is if the clowns in MLB took blood samples of all current players and put them into some sort of storage could those samples be preserved and then later tested for HGH and other PEDs that are undetectable today. If this is possible why arent they doing it?
bonds and clemens are getting the attention for 2 simple reasons. 1) they are just about the biggest names and 2) they got caught.
i agree others have been/are using, but without the smoking guns, there's not much for us to do other than guess.
with regard to the frozen samples, WADA is proposing that this be done. i believe cycling has been doing it for a while and this is how/why lance armstrong was accused of doping. i doubt the players unions that represent american team sports will ever allow samples to be frozen.
tony bennett,
the head men's basketball coach at washington state?
if you're trying to protect him, you must be italian.
Excuse me, Anthony Dominick Benedetto. Also know as Tony "Jingles".
oh, that tony bennett....
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You gotta love this part:
While the entire Bonds transcript is worth a read, we particularly enjoyed his answer to a question posed by one juror about Greg Anderson, the athlete's beleaguered friend and trainer. "With all the money you make, have you ever thought of maybe building him a mansion or something?" Bonds replied, "One, I'm black. And I'm keeping my money. And there's not too many rich black people in this world. And I'm keeping my money. There's more wealthy Asian people and Caucasian and white. There ain't that many rich black people. And I ain't giving my money up. That's why."
So he let his supposed good friend Greg "Whitey" Anderson live in his car instead? Sounds almost like ... well, I'll let Blogcritics readers decide what that sounds like ...
:-/