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That was not the case with New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi, whose vivid description to the same jury of the outlaw apothecary available to athletes also made its way into the Chronicle. Unlike Bonds, Giambi said he knew what he was taking and told of injecting the steroid Deca Durabolin in 2001. Giambi said Anderson had provided him with the clear, or THG (tetrahydrogestrinone), a then undetectable synthetic steroid that's absorbed with a few drops under the tongue. Anderson also gave him the cream, a mixture of testosterone and epitestosterone that's rubbed into the skin. Giambi also...
...against Anderson and Victor Conte, founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), who have been charged with supplying the illegal drugs to athletes and with money laundering. Both have pleaded not guilty. Dozens of élite athletes have been paraded before the grand jury to discuss BALCO's steroid program, which included detailed schedules for taking the banned substances, plus blood and urine tests to help avoid detection...
...during the season. First-time offenders are placed in treatment programs but not sanctioned. Former major league catcher Don Slaught, who played from 1982 to 1997 and with Bonds in Pittsburgh from 1990 through 1992, insists that even in the '90s it was common knowledge in locker rooms that steroid use was rampant. "But there was no animosity," he says of the relationships among those who cheated and those who didn't. "Some guys chose to do it; some guys didn't. I was one of those guys who chose to do nothing." In those days, he says...
Giambi's numbers are by no means as legendary, but the progress of players like him has inflamed the steroid debate. He hit 33 homers in 1999 and by 2002 was going long 41 times with the Yankees. He says he met Anderson while he and Bonds were on a postseason tour of Japan in 2002. "So I started to ask him, 'Hey, what are the things you're doing with Barry? He's an incredible player. I want to still be able to work out at that age and keep playing,'" Giambi testified, according to the Chronicle. "And that...
...face, the baseball steroid scandal is simple. Athletes who break the rules to win are cheaters. But ask why we have the rules in the first place, and you have to confront a basic irony. We decry performance-enhanced sports. Yet we live performance-enhanced lives...