Posted on 12/02/2004 1:48:14 AM PST by Cableguy
New York Yankees star Jason Giambi told a federal grand jury that he had injected himself with human growth hormone during the 2003 baseball season and had started using steroids at least two years earlier, The Chronicle has learned.
Giambi has publicly denied using performance-enhancing drugs, but his Dec. 11, 2003, testimony in the BALCO steroids case contradicts those statements, according to a transcript of the grand jury proceedings reviewed by The Chronicle.
The onetime Oakland A's first baseman and 2000 American League Most Valuable Player testified that in 2003, when he hit 41 home runs for the Yankees, he had used several different steroids obtained from Greg Anderson, weight trainer for San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds.
In his testimony, Giambi described how he had used syringes to inject human growth hormone into his stomach and testosterone into his buttocks. Giambi also said he had taken "undetectable" steroids known as "the clear" and "the cream" -- one a liquid administered by placing a few drops under the tongue, the other a testosterone-based balm rubbed onto the body.
The 33-year-old Yankee said Anderson had provided him with all of the drugs except for human growth hormone, which he said he had obtained at a Las Vegas gym. Anderson also provided him syringes, Giambi said.
Agent Arn Tellem, who accompanied Giambi and his younger brother, Jeremy, to the grand jury, did not return calls seeking comment. Other efforts to reach the Giambis were unsuccessful.
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Of course nobody on the the Angels would dare do anything like use steroids themselves. /sarcasm
I googled the name, and OMYGAWD, that man is a commercial for steroids.
Say it aint so! Say it aint so!
If Pedro becomes a Yankee, he'll be a model citizen! ;)
McQuire never admitted to taking any illegal or banned substances..he bought over the counter junk that you or I could buy at the local Costco, or the base exchange for that matter....
Vazquez was 10-4 and an All-Star at the break and doing just fine. Sure, he had a dismal second-half, but the Yanks and their fans are completely overreacting as usual.
For goodness sake, he's the one single player on the team with any upside to his career. He might also be the only one under 30 as well! Seriously, who's under 30? A-Rod? Uhhhh...Strurtze? That's it.
And I just read their "Top 10 Prospects" article in the latest Baseball America. Their cupboard is beyond empty. They barely have a player or pitcher ready for the majors even in a utility or mop-up role.
So, yes, their first obsession should be to trade their youngest, hardest-throwing starter for a 41-year-old pitcher. And throw the D'backs $19M as well to do it, when they owe $100M on Giambi and Brown. Just brilliant, guys.
but that doesn't make it sound health policy...
I ususally see it prescribed for feeble old men to help restore a little vitality and energy, and not in a sexual way.....
every drug....natural or not....is a toxin in some way to your body...
Yes, look at Ortiz's #s and see that upon hitting his prime (late 20s for drug-free mortals), being healthy, playing full time, and having quality hitters protecting him in the line-up, he produced mightily. He uses the Green Monster better than any lefty since Wade Boggs. He works hard - played winter ball last off-season. There is such a thing as natural improvement, it just doesn't happen in one's 30s (Bonds).
But he only had 17 homers at home this season, as opposed to 24 on the road. Check the rest of his numbers out here:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/stats?statsId=5909&context=batting
The reason I bring up Ortiz is that Sox fans should think long and hard before taunting the Yankees over Giambi. Anybody who thinks that the only players using steroids are the ones caught in the BALCO scandal is delusional. It's a problem in all of baseball, not just the Yankees.
McGuire grew those muscles in his mid thirties from lifting weights, so he said. Right, and the public believes him.
That is soooooo 20th Century.
21st Century World Series rings:
Bosox = 1
NYY = 0
The Yankees and Steinbrenner are screwed. They can't void the contract..not because they're afraid of losing in arbitration..and I think they might win..but rather because they don't know what's up with Sheffield..
There's several big differences between Sheffield and Giambi. First is that while both admitted to using steroids, Sheffield said it was inadvertent from to using a topical cream, while Giambi admits he knows what he was taking, and was shooting himself up in the stomach and butt. Second is that Giambi even took a female fertility drug, which may have exacerbated his tumor. Third is the performance level -- the year Sheff admitted to taking steroids turned out to be the worst of his career. And Sheffield played 150+ games this year and was second in the MVP voting. Giambi has gone downhill fast, spent most of the year on the DL, and is not the player the Yankees thought they signed. Plus, the fertility drug he took may have exacerbated his tumor.
What I think and hope will happen, if they can't void the contract, is that the Yankees work out a settlement with Giambi, where they pay him something in exchange for the contract being terminated.
So the year 2000 is no longer in the 21st century? Who knew?
Fair enough, but I wasn't the one who started this, by posting graphics and comments saying that the Yankees cheated in the 2003 ALCS, and the Red Sox were robbed!
He was lying. Clearly.
" Which ALCS? Yankee fans count WS rings, not ALCSs."
D@mn straight...
It's the ring that matters...
Yankee Fans count ALCS's like Hef counts blonde bimbos.
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