Bonds admits to taking supplements, protein pills

The Orange County Register ^ | July 11, 2002 | Staff

[EveningStar]

The San Francisco Giants' home run king, Barry Bonds, says he's used creatine supplements and protein pills, according to a televised interview.

Bonds' acknowledgment he took the legal supplements comes in the face of much criticism and scrutiny about steroid use among Major League Baseball players.

[Huck]

This isn't really news, is it?

[jlogajan]

creatine supplements and protein pills

Both of which you can buy in most super-markets, or health food stores.

[FreeTally]

Oh my God, what a HUGE story!!! Bonds takes supplemets and Creatine! Stop the presses!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[smith288]

AP (San Fransicso)
It has become known through anonymous sources that Barry Bonds, the power hitting right fielder from the Giants, uses devices called "weights". These "weights" are heavy, blunt objects that are thought to strengthen muscles through over working them and then allowing them to heal stronger than before. ...Developing...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[nevergore]

OMG! Does he take vitamins too???!!??

NeverGore :^)

[kinghorse]

Bonds is pretty much in step with what he thinks is the trend. The most interesting thing I took out of his interview with Leno last night was his suggestion that "Testing was fine, just not random testing. Random testing violates privacy rights". He didn't just dream this up. His lawyer(s) coached him on how to handle the interview, rest assured.

So the prevailing attitude in California which we can assume will eventually push it's way across the US is that the act of testing should be on a scheduled basis, to give the individual time to "clean up their act". This is tantamount to saying, hell yes we smoke grass and pop roids. We just want to know when you want us to abstain and we will go through that process to prove we are NOT ADDICTS, and therefore functioning citizens.

I think Bonds is a jerk like everyone else but I kinda like this approach. It's a pretty good compromise. I don't think random testing is a positive thing to be doing to trusted employees, employees who have done a good job.

Randomly testing convicted felons or people with on the job accidents yes, but not people who haven't done anything wrong.

I believe this is a hot button social issue and will only gain in importance as more good honest hard working people get run out on a rail over a postive THC which we know stays in the body for a long time as opposed to Cocaine which you could abuse like mad, lay off for 3 days and test clean. Which person is less stable and yet more likely to keep their jobs in a random testing environment?

Comments??

[isthisnickcool]

OMG! He likely eats green leafy veggies too!

Oh, the humanity!

[Paradox]

This is the stupidest thing I have read all day. "Admit to", as if it was a crime, or somehow morally questionable.

"Paradox admits to having sex with his wife, story at 11..."

Now if the above headline were about Bill Clinton, that might actually be newsworthy..

[Sloth]

"admits to"???? WTH?

This is like a headline saying that the President has admitted having a sexual relationship with his own wife.

[Thane_Banquo]

This just in: "The sky is blue!"

[Sloth]

Great minds...

[F16Fighter]

All I know is Bonds went from 20-30 HRs per year to 80 HRs a year while cracking the average homer about 500 feet into the Pacific...

Creatine and protein ain't that magical.

[dawn53]

I believe this is a hot button social issue and will only gain in importance as more good honest hard working people get run out on a rail over a postive THC which we know stays in the body for a long time as opposed to Cocaine which you could abuse like mad, lay off for 3 days and test clean. Which person is less stable and yet more likely to keep their jobs in a random testing environment?

Sounds like a little situational ethics to me.

If THC is prohibited, then it's prohibited.

The fact that cocaine is eliminated quickly has nothing to do with it.

If you're not doing anything wrong, then who cares if they test you, random or not?

You don't have to have a job in the Major Leagues.

If you don't like their rules, then don't work for them.

If you do work for them (and happen to be making gazoodles of money because of it), abide by their rules, and don't be a crybaby if you get caught.

[FreeTally]

Creatine and protein ain't that magical.

No, but sorry pitching, small strike zones and juiced up balls explain it.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Creatine shmeatine. He still has to make contact with a sphere that is dipping, curving, sliding, and/or moving at over 90 miles per hour.

[hobbes1]

Nor are weights. 56 lbs in 4 years....get a grip people.

There is only ONE WAY TO ROCK like that. Especially considering that 8 months out of the year his JOB deprives his body of the requisite rest to grow Muscle.

Pass the Juice Barry!!!

JFTR....Personally I think If they want to they should (sanely of course) but, the Dishonesty pi$$es me off.

[hobbes1]

Doesn't explain 56 lbs in 4 years.