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| Barry Bonds Failed Amphetamine Test -Credit to the Associated Press NEW YORK - 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. <3 Barry Bonds, I hope he never breaks Aaron's record. | |||||||||||||||
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| He's going to break it, no question. He only needs around 20 I believe and he'll get that if he stays somewhat healthy. | |||||||||||||||
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| It's the steriods era. Is it right? No. You have to think about it though if roids were as wide spread as everyone thinks, there's no way only the hitters were taking. The pitchers were juicing to, so honestly i know this sounds fucked up but cheating was so prevelant I don't see how you can tell them apart. True Bonds and others may have been cheating, but the pitchers were doing to, so IMO ( this is truly fucked up) both sides were roiding so it evens out. | ||||||||||||||
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| Slim, we don't know anything. Would you be surprised if more then half of all players used at one point or another? I wouldn't be.. There's that combined with the fact that MLB didn't give a shit until congress stepped in and combined with the fact that the fans rather see home runs in bunches no matter what the players are on (check ratings). Everyone is at fault. This is indeed the steroid era. They still don't test for human growth hormone. | |||||||||||||||
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