http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5508196 Bonds threatens to quit if bone chips worsen Story Tools: Print Email Blog This FOXSports.com Posted: 4 hours ago The problems continue to pile on for Giants outfielder Barry Bonds. The latest setback for the embattled slugger is bone chips in his left elbow. Bonds told MLB.com that he has "10 to 12 bone chips floating" in his left elbow, which he revealed is swollen to "almost twice the size" of his other elbow. "I'm going to keep playing until it blows up," Bonds told MLB.com. "If I have to have a procedure, then I'm done. Finished. That would be it." This health issue came just a day after it was revealed that a federal grand jury is investigating whether Bonds committed perjury when he testified in 2003 that he never used steroids. Bonds said he felt his elbow pop during a spring training batting practice session in March. He underwent an MRI and was examined at the time by Dr. Ken Akizuki, the Giants orthopedic surgeon, and Dr. Lewis Yocum, the Giants' and Angels' orthopedic specialist, who oversaw Bonds' recovery from last year's three surgeries on his right knee. The Giants said Bonds was diagnosed with inflammation in the elbow, and Bonds missed about a week of action. On Friday, head trainer Stan Conte acknowledged to MLB.com that the inflammation was caused by bone chips in the elbow. Conte was able to speak about the injury after getting clearance from Bonds, who controls his own flow of medical information to the media, the trainer said. "He does have bone chips," Conte told MLB.com. "We knew that after he took the MRI during spring training. He does have it, and he's going to have intermittent discomfort with that. A lot of players have those. We know from spring training that he gets irritated from time to time. There's nothing we can do except keep an eye on it." Bonds, who will be 42 on July 24, has wavered about whether he plans to return next season. Bonds is chasing Hank Aaron's home run record, was granted immunity to testify truthfully before a grand jury in December 2003 investigating a Northern California steroid distribution ring based at the company called the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative, or BALCO. According to excerpts of testimony previously reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, Bonds testified that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer convicted in the case, but said he didn't know they were steroids. Bonds testified that Greg Anderson, his personal trainer, told him the substances were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and an arthritis balm. Anderson and three others, including BALCO founder Victor Conte, have pleaded guilty to distribution charges. Bonds is hitting just .167 with no home runs this season.
No kidding, holy hell, is Gomez Barry Bonds personal butt buddy, wtf, talk about something other than Barry Bonds.
so true man, I guess it's cause he lives in San Fran that he gets the coverage, or that he lives in san fran cause of the coverage.
Barry Bonds is a wonderful human being and a god among men. I love him like a brother. And I'm white, so that's like a stretch of the imagination. That's how godly among men he is.
I hope he doesn't retire. It's a shame how everyone is against him now. I want to see him keep playing and break Ruth & Aaron's records.
How has Bond's cheated? There is no proof that he has cheated. At worst he's cheated many pitchers of their dignity.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/03/BALCO.TMP Barry Bonds told a federal grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream supplied by the Burlingame laboratory now enmeshed in a sports doping scandal, but he said he never thought they were steroids, The Chronicle has learned. Unless you believe the BALCO stuff is completely made up and those substances are in fact not steroids, then he admitted that he cheated.
He was not aware at the time that his aloe vera was steroids in actuality. Guilty of nothing except wanting supple skin.
Ignorance is not an excuse. If you use steroids, that's cheating, whether it was knowingly or not. Otherwise, you'd have the perfect loophole with every player just asking the trainer not to tell him what the substances are.
I'd have to disagree with that. I'm not saying Bonds did or did not know what he was doing, but if someone does something that unknowingly causes them to have an advantage, I don't think you can call that cheating. It's just a semantics game, sure, but I believe the very definition of cheating includes the person's intent.
I guess hitting .190, with ZERO home runs and being the target of a federal investigation will do this to you.
