
Not long ago, we told you that
Barry Bonds' ex-mistress,
Kimberly Bell, was
set to appear in Playboy, and
write a tell-all book. Well, nude photos and an accompanying article are set to appear in November's issue of the magazine. In an effort to promote the spread, Bell was interviewed by the
New York Daily News where
she told of Bonds' steroids use:
His body had grown thicker, his back was pocked with acne, his hair had fallen out and his testicles had shriveled when Bonds asked his former mistress if she thought anyone would suspect he was on the juice.
"Do I look bloated?" Bonds wanted to know. "Does it look funny? Do you think this is obvious?"
...
"I don't see how anyone could not have known, but everybody looked the other way," said Bell, who claims the slugger admitted using the juice to her in 1999."
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Bonds was always moody - "I always figured he had PMS, like a woman," Bell said – but the drugs radically changed his behavior as well as his body. He became a different person, controlling, threatening and finally violent. "It went from 'I want to know where you are at' to 'I'm gonna f------ kill you. I'm gonna cut your head off and leave you in a ditch.'"
I always consider ex-anythings unreliable sources because you figure they are out to destroy the character of their former lover. Still, where there's smoke there's fire, and when you couple this story with what we've already read in
Game of Shadows and elsewhere, you find that quite a mountain of implicating evidence exists. Ultimately, the Bonds detractors will point to these stories to prove their point, while Bonds supporters will demand a failed drug test, ignoring the fact that designer steroids are undetectable.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-03-2007 @ 8:48AM
Gary R Wolfe said...
People will always defend what they want to think about someone.
Barry Bonds use to be a very nice role model for the kids, and I heard at times how he has changed his outward actions to the worse.
Barry was one of the best players in the sport even thought I'm a Dodger fan.
My favorite player of all times was Ted Williams, now there is a role model and gentleman, and great ball player.
Anyway, I can believe he used steroids just by his apearance even if he tried to hide it.
The fact is if he used them he will pay in his life as time goes on.
He destroyed himself just to do things that really was not that important compared to what it is going to do to his body and baseball records.
As far as homerun king, Babe Ruth is still the king and will always be, UNLESS someone can get as many homeruns as he had during the same amount of games.
Let Babe Ruth bat 40 more games, or around 100 more times at the plate.
I would like to see Barry come clean and admit he used drugs and become the man he once use to be.
Not to get religious in here, but Barry needs to let Jesus Christ change his life.
Man will put you down no matter what you say and do, but my Lord will forgive and forget it ever happened.
For those of you who just read that and said" they always bring religion into everything", well, Jesus does belong in everything, and one day you will wish you had taken that matter serious instead of attacking those who loved Jesus.
Barry, holding a record in homeruns is nothing compared to eternity without Jesus, all the records in the world will not take away the pain.
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10-03-2007 @ 10:38AM
Frank said...
Barry Bonds had all the talent a ball player could ask for. There was no reason for him to find another way to break any records. However, he has never displayed an attitude of let's do it for the team. He always put himself first and always showed animosity towards the press. His ego got the best of him. He will be sorry when the junk he put into his body will cause many medical and physical problems, not to mention the disgrace he and his family will face if he is indicted for perjury. Frank
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10-03-2007 @ 10:39AM
Brian Moore said...
I've little doubt that Bonds used steroids.
That said, there's nothing in Bell's comments that couldn't have lifted from reading a story or two on steroids. They're so generic, in fact, that I'm inclined to believe she's lying, at least in part. She's repeating cliches.
Again, there's little doubt Bonds used, but I'm over the phony outrage and opportunism that characterizes much of the reaction to the charges.
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10-03-2007 @ 11:09AM
Anthony said...
Every comment has referred to usage, including the ex-wifes. However, in this modern society with technological advances, If Bonds used why hasn't it been detected? If it never is, Bonds should be given the benefit of the doubt as anyone else would. Why hasn't Jason Giambi's stats been thrown out?
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10-03-2007 @ 12:15PM
PAT said...
I am really getting tired of hearing about Barry
no one really cares can we please get on with some
thing new no more about BB
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10-03-2007 @ 1:04PM
Joel said...
Anthony-
It was never detected because he was never tested for it. By the time testing came around, the ship had sailed.
Bonds is guilty by his own admission. But this "revelation" smells like bullcrap to me. It's really easy to just make up a story that uses the stereotypical symptoms of steroid use (shrunken testicles, back acne, roid rage, hair loss). It's like she was reading them off of a laundry list. There's absolutely no evidence that this isn't a total fabrication.
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10-03-2007 @ 10:09PM
Barabbas said...
@#1. My man, you need to catch up to current events, Ruth has not been the home run champ for more than 30 years. The game is actually integrated now, and some of those black guys can play. Makes you wonder what they would have done on the same playing field during Ruth's time.
OK, Bonds used steriods. So did the pictures, and they still could not get him out. So did Nefi Perez, and he could not get the ball out the infield. I could care less about steriods.
C'mon, his ex has magazines to sell, stacks of them. And spreading her legs is not enough to move the magazines, after all, any woman could do that. So, she has to tell a "story", one of shrunken testicles, mood swings, and out of control ego. If she was willing to cheat with a married man, can we say she is 100% credible?
I'll not be buying the magazine. I've seen nude women before, and the Bonds story has been used for profit already.
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10-04-2007 @ 1:55AM
George B Vieto said...
Barry Bonds using steroids is common knowledge. If you are going to point fingers at him then point it at all players who have done the juice. Barry isn't the boy scout with the media that is why the media gives him a hard time about his steroid use.
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10-04-2007 @ 7:05AM
JAB said...
Interesting comments one and all. I think the difference in attention to Barry and Giambi is two-fold. Giambi didn't set the single season and career home run records. The one that did would naturally be expected to draw MUCH greater scrutiny. In addition, I think American society is pretty forgiving to those who seek it. Giambi was straight-up about his past use (even to the chagrin of MLB who got mad at him for being truthful). Had Bonds not had the poor relations with the media, and had 'fessed and ask forgiveness, he likely would have gotten it (or at least a bit less of the treatment he has received).
Babe Ruth? Unquestionably the greatest baseball player,..EVER! That is almost beyond debate. In addition to the homers, RBIs, and walks, he was a .347 lifetime hitter AND won nearly 100 games pitching (including several World Series records which still stand to this day if I am not mistaken). WOW! No one stacks up to this. Who knows what an African American player might have done were it not for segregation during that era. But when I look at who WAS playing at that time, Ruth was putting up numbers that lapped the field. His numbers would still be staggering against today's players, much less what his contemporaries were doing in the 20's and 30's. He likely would have put the mark well over 800 had he not lost so many at bats during the years he was primarily just a pitcher.
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11-17-2007 @ 4:42PM
Adam Chism said...
I think this whole media crap with Barry Bonds is just that crap. How can you accuse him of doing steroids by the way he looks. That means that almost every NFL player is on steroids. If it is because he hits good then babe ruth was on steroids as well. If they found steroids in his posession that isnt anything but posession it dosent mean he takes them. Sure steroids are illegal but how many people do illegal things reguardless of the seriousness. I was always told that a white lie is still a lie. Media scrutanizes steroids so bad a most of there interpretations of how steroids effect the body is a load of crap. You say oh steroids hurt your liver cause high blood pressure and a bunch of other stuff. But even though alchoholism is terrible on your liver. High blood pressure comes from stress think about how many people have high blood pressure and dont do steroids. Oh and I cant forget roid rage. There have been countless studies done to show that roid rage is nothing but a stereo type. Hollywood portrays juicers as monsters that freak out over any and everything. You cant prove someone is on steroids unless they fail a drug test. All other evidence is bs. I could see if he came out and said hey I take steroids. Other than that leave him alone he is a great baseball player reguardless of the investigation going on. For you to take his fame away for something he may or may not have done is like taking your kids away for being a bad parent. In which how many parents suck at life. I wish everyone that was balls deep in this case that has no ties to the bonds family or involved in the investigation would go find someone else to mess with. Everyone in the US is so worried about what everyone else is doing they lose sight of their downfalls. You should all be ashamed of your selves I hope he gets off so all of you can put your foot in your mouthes. Go Barry
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