Has Barry Bonds ever tested positive for steroids?
That is, by anybody, be it MLB, FBI, CIA, FDA, UFC, SDSAB, FDIC…
MLB just started testing for steroid recently. He has not tested positive. At least if he has there is a vast conspiracy since he has not been punished under the leagues guidelines. His steroid use came out during a criminal investigation into his supplier. I don’t know why any other others would be testing him but it is possible.
Balco ,the Walmart of steroid distribution in sports, had him listed as a client and his drug routine was also there. That does not necessarily prove he used ,but it taints him. It was not even against the rules of baseball then. Human Growth Serum was pretty unknown to baseball and I do not think a reliable test even exists now. Balco was a supplier of HGH too.
So did he get caught using? As far as I can see no. No definitive proof exists. If it does it has not been aired.Therefore the commissioner should attend his games and congratulate him when he breaks Aarons record. Hall of Fame should vote him in too. .
I guess this begs the question: Has he ever tested negative for steroids?
No, the OP begs the question because it is assumed that steroids are the only real strength-enhancing drug to be concerned with and it does not address the drug he is most likely to have used and/or still be using: Human Growth Hormone (HGH).
Major Leaguer Baseball does not test for HGH, and yet this is the drug most athletes might be taking, especially the ones with the means to acquire just about whatever they want.
All major league ballplayers are tested for steroids during the course of the season. There is a mandatory suspension for a positive steroid test. Since Bonds has never been suspended, he must have had negative steroid tests.
He admitted to using “the Clear,” a cream like substance that is rubbed into the skin over sore joints. His personal trainer did that for him (because he’s actually above doing those things for himself, being as important as he is). The Clear is a steroid containing substance. He claimed that he did not know that. He has, in fact, admitted to unknowingly using steroids, or having steroids rubbed on him.
Sports types always claim ignorance .when caught The truth that I have encountered ,is that they become very knowledgeable and you can discuss steroids, and blood doping and HGH for hours with them.They become experts.
There are articles out there that question steroids’ abilities to enhance baseball performance, too.
HGH builds muscle, and I acknowledge that I don’t have the time or energy to cite any peer reviewed material to prove that 1) it builds muscle, and 2) that if it does build muscle, that indeed can help a ball player.
I’ve jabbed needles into average asses and watched average Joe’s turn into monsters. Roids in the 80’s and 90’s and the very desirable HGH over the past seven years.
WWE entertainers, Baseball players, and other athletes who travel and train for months on end have advantages you are not fully prepared to comprehend when they are on roids or HGH. Forget it – you just cannot appreciate how HGH or roids can absolutely make one unstoppable in terms of recovery, or total lack of muscle fatigue. All I have is anecdotal evidence; the same anecdotal evidence that convinces athlets to use the stuff.
It was thought for years that runners couldn’t benefit from roids either, because they needed to be lean and mean, and not bulked up. When Ben Johnson blew the doors off Carl Lewis in the 100 meter dash, just about every gym head came into the gym, watched the recap and said ‘‘Winstrol". Okay, one guy said, "Winstrol V’’,wherein the V is for ‘vet use only’.
Days later, Johnson was confirmed to have used Winstrol.
There are roids that an NFL lineman might take, there are roids a sprinter might take, and there are combos, stacks and cycles for every imaginable sport.
HGH builds muscle, speeds recovery and gives advantages to the guy who is travelling and training for months and working around practices, interviews and weight training sessions…in cold, heat, humidity, etc, etc.
If Bonds took/takes, HGH, it would help his total output as a ball player.
If Bonds didn’t test positive for steroids, it does not prove he didn’t take steroids or HGH.
Just to be clear, Bonds has not made any public acknowledgments of using steroids, even unknowingly. The allegations about his use of “the cream” and “the clear” come from leaked grand jury testimony published by the San Francisco Chronicle. It may seem a pedantic distinction, and I hate to be in the position of defending Bonds, but I think we ought to be accurate.
In many cases, steroids are used by athletes not to build muscle bulk but to speed recovery from an injury or alleviate chronic pain. For a guy in his late 30s (he’s now 43), this seems like the more likely motivation.
Wow, let me fight some ignorance by telling you that some designerr steroids are harder to detect than others, and there are numerous ‘masking’ techniques.
For the past 15 years, doctors and testers have been involved in a cat and mouse game, as new desinger roids are created that escape detection, and other masking techniques can be used to trip up the tests.
The testing is far from 100% accurate on its own w/out any extra trickery!
If Bonds never tested positive for steroids, it does not mean he never took them, because:
Tests are not 100% accurate
Many drugs are harder to detect
The drugs aren’t in you forever!!!
Athletes and trainers mask the drugs or time the delivery to minimze detection.
Also, Major League Baseball didn’t test for steroids until 2003, didn’t have any consequences for a player failing a test until 2004 (during that year they did “survey” testing to find out how much of a problem there was), and didn’t suspend a player on the first offense until 2005. So it’s possible that Bonds took steroids before MLB tested for them, and also possible that he tested positive for steroids during a period when MLB would not have made the information public.
God, it really doesn’t stop with you- do you even know how to formulate an argument?
If he’s never tested positive for a drug, that means he’s never done the drug?
Uh, ok. Sure.