Remember Greg Anderson? Sure you do. He's Barry Bonds' personal trainer, the one who (allegedly) supplied Bonds with copious amounts of steroids, transforming Barry from "really good" to "insanely astronomically good."Well, while Bonds is out in Arizona, coasting through spring training for the cool $15 million he's getting this season, Anderson is rotting in jail, still the subject of the government's attempts to put Bonds behind bars.
But Anderson won't talk. And in the story linked above, Mike Fish tried to find out why:
That raises the question: Why would Anderson put his family through this? Is it purely a distrust of the government? Or unwavering loyalty to the soon-to-be greatest home run hitter of this or any other generation? Or more? ...
Even Bonds' attorney acknowledges such loyalty shouldn't go unrewarded."For the years that Greg was training him -- and mind you, they would do training all spring, literally every day of the week, during home stands, off-season he would be training with him, and hours and hours of training -- and Barry would give him 15 grand a year for training," Rains says. "The year, I think it was '01 when he hit the 73, he gave him a bonus. I forget what it was, but he gave everybody on his team -- the publicists and everybody -- some additional money that year. When you think about it, he was paying Greg 15 grand a year to train. And I have to tell you I think that is a pitiful sum of money for spending as much time as Greg did with Barry.
Who knows if Anderson will get some sort of payoff from Bonds or not, but if you ask me, he deserves one. A huge, Wow-thanks-for-the-Malibu-home-and-Lamborghini type payoff. Not only is he tenuously keeping Bonds indictment-free, Anderson is arguably just as responsible for Bonds' huge seasons as Bonds is.
"So will Barry take care of Greg? I don't know the answer. He has really never taken care of him in my opinion. Never has. So your guess is as good as mine. I actually think he should take care of him. I think he ought to. And there is nothing wrong if the [legal] proceedings are over and he says to Greg, 'Look, Greg, you had to suffer like crazy. I think you are deserving of a bonus.' I don't see anything wrong with that. But I am not so sure he will do it."
Screw loyal. Anything else, and Anderson's just crazy.
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3-28-2007 @ 1:26AM
fdgdggd said...
Bonds was more than " real good " before 73 homeruns. He was arguably better than Aaron, Musial, Mantle, and Ballgame before roids.
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3-28-2007 @ 4:57PM
Tom said...
The Asterisk Party
We make no attempt to single out Barry Bonds. Barry just happens to be carrying the steroid banner presently. McGwire, Sosa, Bud Selig etc... all of them are guilty of drinking from the steroid trough. We do indeed protest the steroid era... and the efforts of Bud Selig. Like a good parent... we do not accept the he did it too excuse... the integrity of the game is at stake. We know the asterisk will never be applied but at least we fans will have said to the future fans ... we knew what was going on and we did not stand by and ignore it.
Our asterisk is simply an acknowledgment that we the fans were not ignorant to the truth. Future baseball fans will certainly look back on this time... the steroid era... and they will wonder why no one took a stand and called foul. So this year, we stand up for the past, to show the future, that the now matters. And we will make our stand... in the stands... at the ballpark... for all to see. Our little piece of foam does not attempt to deal with records or right a wrong. That would certainly be beyond the fans ability and would only add to a convoluted tangle of words and facts. This little foam asterisk simply allows the fans to demonstrate, in a peaceful simple way, that we were not blind. We were not fooled. And we did not stand by and look the other way while the integrity of the game was ground into the dirt.
The Fans
http://www.fanslovebaseball.com/
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