Report: Barry Bonds failed amphetamine test; blamed a team mate

[Taco John]

Report: Barry Bonds failed amphetamine test

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

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.

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[Taco John]

[Kaylore]

Barry Bonds doesn't just take Amphetamines for the Children, he takes them for America.

[24champ]

Screw the Midgets...

[Atlas]

Barry bonds has never taken steroids. Look at the pictures. The one on the left is Barry in Little league when he was 12 years old. The one on the right is Barry in MLB. He isn't on steroids, he just grew up.

[epicSocialism4tw]

Barry Bonds is a train wreck.

[OrangeShadow]

boy, knock me over with a feather.

[GonzoLays]

Who cares? What does it matter?

Breaking news: John Lynch spotted having a alcoholic beverage!!

So Barry likes a little speed every once in a while. Big freaking deal. Speed enhances your performance game as much as a joint or a beer.



In more important news that was failed to be mentioned by this board, Roger Clemens* is a roidhead.

Roger Clemens* Likes To Shoot Steroids In His Ass

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Clemens*, his good pal Andy Pettitte, and Miguel Tejada were among those accused of using performance-enhancers in the Jason Grimsley affidavit....The Times says they got access to a non-redacted version of the document in which former Arizona Diamondback Jason Grimsley identified Major League Baseball players who used drugs. Grimsley, according to them, told investigators that Clemens and Pettitte used "athletic performance-enhancing drugs"....



Innocence.................................................. ............... Roid Rage

[-Slap-]

Originally Posted by 24champbailey

Screw the Midgets...

Man, that's an ugly broad.

[-Slap-]

Originally Posted by GonzoLays

What's interesting about these pictures, is Clemens pretty much already has the physique at 20, that he has at 40.

No failed drug test. No admission before grand jury that he used The Clear. Like B*rry.



Clemens might be dirty, based on hearsay. B*nds has a mountain of evidence stacked against his punk ass. Drug addict piece of ****, just like his worthless daddy.

[ol number 7]

Originally Posted by angryllama

Barry Bonds is a train wreck.

Once again Barry is the victim of another person trying to ruin his career.

Take some responsiblity. See steroids shrinks your nuts as well as your brain.

He now has nuts the size of peas and a brain maybe smaller. No cup for Barry when a thimble will now do.

[watermock]

It's all a conspiracy...the meth was planted in another player's locker. Who can blame Barroid?

This is all Mark Sweeney's fault.

Someone explain to me why Sweeney didn't test postive. I've never seen such a lying sack in my life.

[Jason in LA]

Originally Posted by -Slap-

Man, that's an ugly broad.

That's a woman? When I first looked at that photo it never crossed my mind that it was a woman. That's gotta suck.

[Arkansas Bronco]

Of course he would blame a team mate. Do you think he has the balls to actualy accept responsability?

[Rohirrim]

Well, MLB had Mr. October. Now it has Mr. Character.

[Rock Chalk]

Why is it OK for Gonzo to be racist? I just dont get it.

[defenseman]

Barry Bonds is a liar and he cheats to boot from where I sit. If the voters for the baseball HOF let this bozo in, BASEBALL has a HUGE problem, the Barry Bond's of the world are dragging it down. Feakin idiots in charge and guys like Bonds flourish in this sport. Suspend his dum a$$, boot him, do whatever. But fix this problem. Freakin cheaters like bonds should be gone...dman

[ludo21]

The fact that he steps up and blames this on a teammate shows what kind of guy he is.

[defenseman]

Originally Posted by Alec

Why is it OK for Gonzo to be racist? I just dont get it.

How so?...dman

[Arkansas Bronco]

Originally Posted by Alec

Why is it OK for Gonzo to be racist? I just dont get it.

I think the only race that cant be racist are us white people. Everyone else has free range to hate on us for what ever reason they feel justified.

[Arkansas Bronco]

I bet Rodgers is using cause no one can age and gain speed. And I am sure glad as hell McGuire didnt get in the other day.

[Rock Chalk]

I dont know if Rocket is using roids or not and since he isnt an Astro anymore I feel no need to defend him if he is.

[-Slap-]

Originally Posted by Jason in LA

That's a woman? When I first looked at that photo it never crossed my mind that it was a woman. That's gotta suck.

Its neither male nor female.

Its a Vermeil.

[BroncoInferno]

Originally Posted by 24champbailey

Originally Posted by -Slap-

Its neither male nor female.

[Garcia Bronco]

All baseball players have taken amphetamine since the 60's. They call them greenies.