If Barry Bonds has never failed a drug test, then why all the steroids speculation?

Question

All I hear is that he is on the juice, but according to a news article, he has never failed a drug test. I'm sports ignorant, so please explain! Thank you!

Answer 1

Simply look at his Topps Rookie baseball card from 1987 in a Pirates uniform, and look at him today. He has grown not slowly over the years, but quite large rather quickly. He amassed a lot of that bulk during the home run races of McGwire and Sosa. He wanted the crown, he juiced, he got the crown. Now he is going to tarnish the '755'.

I have been in the military for over 20 years, even here there is clean urine to be had if you are deceitful enough.

Answer 2

Look up pictures of Barry Bonds from his days with the Pirates and then look at him now. It would be like Doogie Howser becoming the Rock. Bonds openly admitted to using steroids in federal courtroom, stating he used a cream that contained steroids on his knee and was unaware of that at the time. If you were an athlete who got paid millions of dollars every year and your body was your ticket, wouldn't you want to know what was going into it? His cap size also grew 2 sizes. Also, baseball stats don't change all that much over the course of time. It seems as if every decade someone one or two players hits 50 HRs. I would think A-Rod and Griffey are the two legitimate ones now. How did all the sudden in the late 90's to 2004, three players hit in the 60's and 70's, and now the game seems to be back to the norm again. Funny how those guys were McGwire and Sosa. They never failed a drug test either. Look a little deeper into it. You'd be complete and utter idiot if you did not suspect.

Answer 3

It is true that Bonds never failed a drug test. However, the problem he is having comes from his leaked grand jury testimony where he admitted he applied cream to his body and did not know he was applying a steroid. Most people find that hard to believe. There is another issue that many people on this site are getting wrong. There is a testing procedure for Human Growth Hormone (HGH), which is a steroid by the way, but it requires a blood test and there is no blood testing procedure approved in the MLB and union agreement, only urine. Don't you think the time has come to expand the drug testing policy to include a blood test which will help to detect many of the (53) banned substances contained within the MLB union agreement which are currently not tested for?

Answer 4

Well, at least this is better than someone who is familiar with Bonds and his chase for synthetic immortality and still asking the question.

Question for you:
If I told you that I was going punch you in the face, but gave you three weeks notice, would you be caught off guard when it happens?

Drug tests are scheduled, in advance, with notice.

It's NOT media speculation, it's fact.

He said he took something that his trainer gave him. He thought it was flaxseed.

It was later identified as the notorious 'cream' and 'the clear', which is a steroid.

He tried to hush the SF Cronicle story, not on the basis of libel, the printing of false comments, but on the fact that the testimony came from Grand Jury Testimony.

Which means, their claim that Bonds too steroids was in his grand jury testimony and NOT false (or libel would have been claimed)

Bonds used something, something that helps him perform on (or off) the baseball field and we know it helped him because if it didn't, no one would use it and risk the side effects.

Still a great player, an incredibly weak human being that couldn't bear others cheating around him and taking his spot light, so had to jump into the fray himself.

I do feel sorry for him, when he looks back at history and realizes mostly everyone scoffs at him.

Must be a hard way for him to live, and then die

Answer 5

Bonds has been implicated in a number of ways: his association with Balco, what others have observed him doing, what he has been alleged to do by the woman he was having an affair with, that his personal trainer was sent to jail for involvement with steroids - all outside of his on-field performace and appearence (which many cite but is far from hard evidence). The allegation are laid out in detail in the book Game of Shadows.

Additionally the fact he has failed a test doesnt say much - the MLB testing policy was nonexist until recently and even then was very flawed for a while

I'll provide links,there is too much information to do into detail here. The first discuss the MLB testing policy history. The last two detail the allegations of Game of Shadows, which I consider to be the best single source.

Answer 6

He does not ought to be .All that desires to be carried out is to have a smart answer to describe the spike in abode run production with the aid of particular persons between 1996 and the present season that doesn't comprise applying some form of overall performance improving agent. If that clarification isn't coming near near then a smart person could ought to anticipate that an exterior agent became into used and that Barry Bonds and Steroid Sluggers ought to be banned from MLB for knowingly violating the spirit of maximum of MLB regulations. whether or no longer he examined helpful rather is of no matter. Edit Btw : Scott Petersen is sitting on loss of life row in CA rather much soley on the muse of circumstansial data.there became into little if any honestly actual data to convict him however the jury theory that the circumstansial data left little if any doubt that he did in actuality homicide his spouse and unborn son .

Answer 7

He never failed a drug test in the past because when he was taking, the specific drugs were not illegal or banned, so that's why he is not under any penalty!

Now, since he's clean, that will definitely make your tests "negative"!

It was his choice to "take" those substances, use them and not see any difference except for only one season's worth of HR's when he hit 73. If they really boost up anyone's performance, he would have had 60+ for more than one season like Sammy Sosa or Mark McGwire had done.

Answer 8

Because we are in America.
When A-Rod gets close to the record the media will find a reason why he is the biggest scum of the earth too.

Sheffield applied the same cream as Bonds and boy does he suck now.

And did you know that steroids slows down a fastball and makes sure a breaking ball doesnt curve.

It also makes your eyes grow to ten times their normal size so you can recognize a pitch better.

The media is the enemy, we are all at war for free thinking

Answer 9

The stuff he has used was not tested for back when he was doing it.

Everyone knows he did something...look at him 10 years ago, and see the difference...people do not just grow all of a sudden at 30 years old.

But what he probably did was HGH and other forms of it, back when it was not tested...so it's really a moral issue. He was not doing anything illegal then. Now, he would not get away with it, but he did what he needed to do, when he was allowed to.

It is baseball's fault for waiting so long and being so blind to what many knew was going on.

I agree with you...enough bashing him and just enjoy the history you are getting the chance to witness.

Answer 10

Because two writers from the San Fransisco Chronicle wrote a book based on leaked Grand Jury testimony in which Bonds admitted to using steroids. He claimed that he was using them unknowingly, yeah right.