Re: San Francisco Giants - Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 22/02/2006, 21:54

Intanto Bonds è arrivato allo ST;

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 28/02/2006, 23:29

Prolungato fino al 2009 il contratto di Randy Winn.

matzoid182 · Post by **matzoid182** » 01/03/2006, 0:57

Prolungato fino al 2009 il contratto di Randy Winn.
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A questo punto non può far altro che confermare quello che già di buono ha fatto vedere.

rene144 · Post by **rene144** » 01/03/2006, 13:05

oh mio Dio......

Paula Abdul Bonds:

C'è tutta la fotogallery, con Giants truccati da membri dei Metallica e Billy Idol e mentre prendono in giro American Idol... straordinario Bonds però: ma quanto è largo???

matzoid182 · Post by **matzoid182** » 01/03/2006, 13:06

oh mio Dio......

Paula Abdul Bonds:

C'è tutta la fotogallery, con Giants truccati da membri dei Metallica e Billy Idol e mentre prendono in giro American Idol... straordinario Bonds però: ma quanto è largo???
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Mamma mia non se po guarda!!! LOL LOL

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 01/03/2006, 14:22

oh mio Dio......

Paula Abdul Bonds:

C'è tutta la fotogallery, con Giants truccati da membri dei Metallica e Billy Idol e mentre prendono in giro American Idol... straordinario Bonds però: ma quanto è largo???
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O mamma mia...

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 03/03/2006, 13:23

Non conta niente ma nella prima partita di prestagione arriva una vittoria 10-5 sui Brewers con hr di Winn e Knoedler ed un 4-4 di Linden.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 06/03/2006, 23:08

Si ritira Kirk Rueter; negli ultimi due anni l'ho maledetto un'infinità di volte ma è stato comunque un pitcher di ottimo livello.
Con i Giants ha un record di 105-80, ERA 4.32 in 281 partite e nella storia della franchigia è terzo per W e partenze e quinto per IP e winning percentage (.568).

rene144 · Post by **rene144** » 08/03/2006, 12:38

tra poco sarà pubblicato un libro di accuse pesantissime e dettagliate a Barry Bonds.
Non esprimo opinioni... lo cito e basta: Shadows.

hakeem · Post by **hakeem** » 08/03/2006, 14:47

e questo è un altro articolo che ne parla

SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds began using steroids after the 1998 baseball season and came to rely on a wide variety of performance-enhancing drugs over the next several years, according to a book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters and excerpted in this week's Sports Illustrated.

The excerpt offers the most comprehensive account of Bonds' experience with steroids, tracing his involvement to the offseason following the historic home run race featuring Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Bonds decided to use performance-enhancing substances after watching McGwire — whom the excerpt says he suspected was "a juicer" — gain national acclaim for eclipsing Roger Maris' storied single-season record of 61 home runs.

Bonds topped McGwire's record of 70 home runs in a season by hitting 73 in 2001. With 708 lifetime homers, Bonds, 41, is closing in on career leaders Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714).

Asked about the book excerpt Tuesday in the clubhouse at Scottsdale Stadium, Bonds said to a small group of reporters: "I don't do interviews, guys. Not those."

Bonds, who continues to rehabilitate a knee injury that limited him to 14 games last season, said he won't be reading the book.

"I won't even look at it. For what? There's no need to," said Bonds, who has repeatedly denied using performance-enhancing drugs.

The excerpt paints a sweeping picture of Bonds' thoughts about using steroids; the role of his weight trainer, Greg Anderson, in introducing him to specific drugs; how his choice of substances changed after he struggled with injuries and met Victor Conte, owner of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative; and Bonds' reaction as his supple body turned thick and muscle-bound.

Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports, co-authored by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, is scheduled for publication March 27.

Hundreds of sources

The excerpt says Fainaru-Wada and Williams based their narrative "on more than a thousand pages of documents and interviews with more than 200 people, many of whom we spoke to repeatedly."

From 2003 through 2005, Fainaru-Wada and Williams wrote nearly 100 stories for the San Francisco Chronicle, lifting the BALCO investigation into an international story and eventually leading to congressional pressure that forced Major League Baseball to twice toughen its steroids policy.

The excerpt suggests Bonds was not truthful during his testimony before a federal grand jury in San Francisco on Dec. 4, 2003. Bonds testified that he used a clear substance and a cream supplied by BALCO, but he said he thought they were flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis, the San Francisco Chronicle previously reported. Bonds also flatly stated he never injected himself with drugs, according to a transcript of his testimony reviewed by the newspaper.

But the book excerpt in Sports Illustrated describes the way Bonds knowingly and meticulously used steroids — including "the clear" and "the cream" provided by BALCO. The excerpt also says Bonds "learned how to inject himself" and describes one conversation with Anderson in which Bonds says of starting another drug cycle: "I'll do it myself."

By pinpointing Bonds' initial use of steroids to the months following the 1998 season, the excerpt pushes back the date when Bonds is known to have first used steroids by more than a year. Former Bonds girlfriend Kimberly Bell said in her testimony before a federal grand jury in San Francisco in March 2005 that Bonds told her before the 2000 season that he had started using steroids, the San Francisco Chronicle previously reported.

The excerpt spells out in vivid detail what attracted Bonds to performance-enhancing drugs: his intense jealousy of McGwire's 70-homer season and the national hero worship it created.

"To Bonds it was a joke," one passage reads. "He had been around enough gyms to recognize that McGwire was a juicer. Bonds himself had never used anything more performance enhancing than a protein shake from the health-food store. But as the 1998 season unfolded, and as he watched Mark McGwire take over the game — his game — Barry Bonds decided that he, too, would begin using."

Noticeable change

Bonds began using Winstrol after the 1998 season, the book says, with Anderson supplying the steroids and syringes and usually injecting Bonds in the buttocks. When Bonds arrived at spring training in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1999, he had added 15 pounds of solid muscle, going from 210 pounds to 225. According to the excerpt, those around the Giants began calling him "the Incredible Hulk."

Bonds, the book says, learned Winstrol was not a magic potion. He suffered a torn triceps tendon in his left arm in April 1999, requiring surgery and forcing him to miss seven weeks. Bonds and Anderson blamed steroids for the elbow injury, the excerpt says, "because they had made his arm muscles so large that the elbow tendon could not support them."

Bonds also complained of pain in his knee and back, leading Anderson to search for other drugs in 2000. Soon thereafter, Anderson put Bonds on Deca-Durabolin, the excerpt says, and later added human growth hormone (HGH). Bonds favored HGH, according to the excerpt, because it allowed him to stay muscle-bound and maintain his thirst to train while also feeling flexible. It also seemed to improve his eyesight.

Along comes Conte

Bonds mostly avoided injury in 2000, playing in 143 games and hitting what was then a career-high 49 home runs. But he wanted more, and the path unfolded before him after the 2000 season, when Anderson arranged for Bonds to meet Conte, the owner of BALCO.

Conte introduced Bonds to "the clear" and "the cream," the two then-undetectable designer steroids at the heart of the doping scandal that would also send Conte to prison.

According to the excerpt, doping calendars kept by Anderson showed Bonds used testosterone; insulin, which had a significant anabolic effect when used with HGH; "Mexican beans," fast-acting steroids thought to quickly clear the user's system; trenbolone, a steroid "created to improve the muscle quality of beef cattle"; and Clomid, a female fertility drug Conte believed helped clients "recover their natural ability to produce testosterone."

Conte's involvement might have increased Bonds' choices and boosted his power, but it backfired when federal officials raided BALCO's offices in Burlingame on Sept. 3, 2003. As the San Francisco Chronicle previously reported and as the excerpt recounts, Conte cooperated with federal agents by implicating 27 elite athletes, including Bonds, as having received performance-enhancing drugs.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 09/03/2006, 0:56

Pronta la risposta degli avvocati di Bonds:

Bonds' lawyers respond to new book
Statement released questioning credibility of sources
By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com

PHOENIX -- Barry Bonds' attorney came out swinging on Wednesday, a day after excerpts from a new book were previewed in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, alleging that the San Francisco Giants slugger used performance-enhancing drugs during a five-year period beginning in 1998.

"The exploitation of Barry's good name and these attempts to eviscerate his sensational accomplishments in all phases of the game of baseball may make those responsible wealthy," Bonds attorney Michael Rains said in a six-paragraph statement that was sent to MLB.com on Wednesday, "but in the end they need to live with themselves. Beyond this, Barry has no comment, either now or in the foreseeable future."

The book, entitled "Game of Shadows" and written by a pair of San Francisco Chronicle reporters who covered the federal investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), says Bonds used a variety of steroid-based drugs from 1998 to 2002, including the season he hit 73 home runs to break Mark McGwire's single-season record.

Bonds has consistently denied the use of steroids, and Major League Baseball did not test for steroids until 2003. During the past three years, no information has been released by Major League Baseball stating that Bonds tested positive for drug use.

Bonds made a perfunctory statement to reporters at the Giants camp on Tuesday and he wasn't there on Wednesday, flying instead to San Francisco because of a long-scheduled custody hearing involving his son from a previous marriage.

Raines reiterated in his statement that Bonds had not read the excerpts, "nor does he intend to."

"Barry regards this as an unfortunate distraction to his friends and teammates at the San Francisco Giants, and to the good name and great players in Major League Baseball," Raines said. "The San Francisco Chronicle, after announcing that it had (illegally) obtained Barry's grand jury testimony, previously published questions asked of him under oath, and his answers. Many of the assertions in this article were already previously mentioned. To that extent, this is simply a duplication of previously reported information."

Bonds testified in front of a grand jury investigating BALCO. His personal trainer, Greg Anderson, was indicted along with Victor Conte, the laboratory's founder, for money laundering and the selling of performance-enhancing drugs. Both men later pled guilty to reduced charges and were sentenced to spend time in jail.

Bonds missed all but 14 games of this past season after having surgery three times in 2005 on his right knee. He returned on Sept. 12 and hit five homers in his first 36 at bats. He has yet to play a game this spring as he is slowly conditioning himself for a push at the all-time home run record. Bonds, at 708, is six homers in arrears of Babe Ruth and 47 behind Hank Aaron, the all-time leader with 755.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 09/03/2006, 20:43

Uscendo dalle polemiche stasera Bonds farà il suo debutto stagionale nella sfida contro gli Angels.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 02/04/2006, 21:29

Dopo uno spring training un po' altalenante (abbastanza bene l'attacco, malino i lanciatori, a parte Schmidt) domani notte inizia la stagione dei Giants con il derby dei santi della California contro i Padres; i partenti dovrebbero essere Schmidt e Peavy.
Sempre in tema di lanciatori, Noah Lowry prolunga fino al 2010 il suo contratto con i Giants.

TheFan17 · Post by **TheFan17** » 04/04/2006, 13:20

Mitico Barry! Un tifoso gli lancia una siringa...e lui gliela rilancia indietro!

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 05/04/2006, 0:42

Mitico Barry! Un tifoso gli lancia una siringa...e lui gliela rilancia indietro!
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Mi sa che sarà dura per Barry giocare in trasferta quest'anno...
Comunque sia la stagione inizia con una sconfitta; dopo un buon inizio l'attacco si ferma, Schmidt concede 2 HR e San Diego può festeggiare.
Stanotte si replica con l'esordio di Matt Morris in maglia Giants.