October 18, 2005
More Steroids
I guess Barry Bonds won't be training with Greg Anderson much over the winter. Anderson, along with Victor Conte and others were sentenced in the BALCO case:
Conte, who will spend four months in prison and four months in home confinement, started the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, which, according to court records, counted dozens of prominent athletes among its clients, including Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Marion Jones and others. The case prompted pro sports to stiffen steroid policies and thrust performance-enhancing drugs into the spotlight. THG, a once-unknown steroid discovered in the investigation, is now banned throughout sports.
Conte pleaded guilty in July to money laundering and a steroid distribution charge; dozens of counts were dropped.
James Valente, BALCO's vice president, was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to reduced charges of steroid distribution. Greg Anderson, Barry Bonds' trainer, was sentenced to six months after pleading guilty to money laundering and a steroid distribution charge. He must spend three months behind bars and three months in home confinement.
Anderson and Conte, who remain free on bond, are scheduled to surrender to prison authorities Dec. 1.
I wonder if Congress is going to pass a law that jails people for two years for selling steroids. It seems Congress wants to hurt the athletes more than the suppliers.
In related news, Felix Heredia was suspended for steroid use. I don't know when the test was administered, but given he's been recovering from aneurysm surgery, I wonder if he was using them to build his shoulder back to strength.
It seems that pitchers are getting caught as often as hitters. I guess PEDs are not just for sluggers anymore.
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of COURSE congress is more interested in hurting athletes. look at who gets the most, um, (female body parts)
and there's nothing else important to do.
look how roids changed heredia into cy young
lisa
Heredia should have been suspended for being such a sucky pitcher regardless of the steroids. The 10 day suspension is doing his team a big favor by keeping the ball out of his hand.
How anyone can say Bonds was clean witha straight face, especially now that his trainer got sent up the river, is beyond me.
As for Congress...I HATE steroids in baseball. I want an honest game more than anything. But Congress needs to butt it's glory hogging nose out of this.
i agree, Heredia is a terrible pitcher who i hope never plays for the Mets (or any other unlucky team) ever again.
That Heredia or any pitcher was suspended is not a surprise to me. I heard a physiologist speak for our local SABR group recently and he contended that pitchers actually have more to gain in terms of their ability to recover from their starts or the ability to pitch more days in a row out of the bullpen than hitters do by bulking up to hit the ball farther. He suspected that although the hitters were getting all the attention, that we would soon see a lot of pitchers getting nabbed...
