- April 2007: Barry Bonds currently has 742 home runs, 13 shy of tying HanK Aaron,
14 shy of shattering his record. That could happen as early as mid June.
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April, 2007: Barry Bonds has never failed a drug test.
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April 2007: As of today, baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has not announced plans to celebrate Bonds record breaking home run. Selig will either have to validate Bonds home run performance or remove him from the record books.
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April, 2007: Hank Aaron says he will not be at the game when Bonds breaks his record.
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Friday, April 27: Kirk Radomski, a former clubhouse boy with the New York Mets, pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing performance-enhancing drugs to dozens of former and current major league players over a 10 year period since 1995.
Through Radomski, the feds are said to have overwhelming evidence including players’ names from Radomski which include documents, wiretaps and shipping records.
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November, 2005: The baseball players association and owners agree to a 50 game, 100 game, lifetime structure for enhancement penalties; they also agree to test for amphetamines and shift the testing responsibility to independent persons.
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October, 2005: BALCO President Victor Conte is sentenced to four months in prison and four months’ home confinement and Greg Anderson, Bonds personal trainer, is sentencened to three months in prison and three months in home confinement.
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July 2005: Victor Conte and Greg Anderson plead guilty to steroid distribution and money laundering.
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March 2005: In the bookGame of Shadows, written by two reporters for theSan Francisco Chronicle, Bonds is portrayed as a chronic and sophisticated user of performance-enhancing drugs by taking steroids via injections, pills, creams and liquid starting in 1998.
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March 2005: At a hearing before the House Government Reform Committee, Mark McGwire evades questions about steroid use as he testifies. Canseco, Sosa and Palmeiro deny using steroids.
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January 2005: Major league baseball players and owners reach new drug testing agreement calling for more banned substances and for a 10 day penalty for first-time offenders.
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December 2004: Barry Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, Bay Area Lab Cooperative (BALCO) President Victor Conte, and BALCO Vice President James Valente, are charged in a federal indictment of running a steroid-distribution ring which provided enhancing drugs to dozens of athletes.
How can you say Bonds would be dumb NOT to take steroids? IF he did, he achieved the records you speak of by cheating. And those records may be thrown away. That's smart???
Posted by: Ron | April 29, 2007 9:46 PM
If the records are "thrown away", it'll just be because of a combination of racism and press abuse. Bonds' records should not be thrown away, unless baseball is willing to scrap Clemens' records, Schillings' records, McGwire, Sosa, Palmerio, Ivan Rodriguez, Lenny Dykstra, the entire early 90's Phillies, on and on....
BTW, you should add Curt Schilling testifying in front of Congress that "he had no idea there was a steroid problem in baseball", when he was on one of the biggest steroid-abusing teams ever (that Dykstra team)...
Posted by: stopmikelupica | April 29, 2007 11:06 PM
/bookmarked & Thanks for taking the time to write this article. Just what I was looking for
Posted by: Watch Movies Online | November 27, 2009 9:33 AM
Bonds would be dumb not to take steriods. Without them hes a hall of famer, with them, he might be the best player ever. 750 homers and 500 steals? thats unfathomable.
Posted by: Rickhouse | April 29, 2007 8:12 PM