Giambi brothers finger Bonds' personal trainer
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March 31, 2011, Thursday
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COLORADO Rockies first baseman Jason Giambi and his brother testified that Barry Bonds' personal trainer supplied them with performance-enhancing drugs.
The two on Tuesday were the first athletes called to testify at Bonds' perjury trial in San Francisco, which is in its second week.
Appearing calm, Jason Giambi testified that he met trainer Greg Anderson after the 2002 season while both were traveling through Japan with a US all-star team.
When they returned to the United States, Anderson had Giambi's blood tested and it turned up positive for a steroid that Major League Baseball was planning to test for during the 2003 season. "Anderson told me that would trip a Major League Baseball test and that I should take something else," Giambi said.
Giambi said he paid Anderson a total of about US$10,000 for several shipments of steroids known as "the clear" and "the cream" designed to evade detection starting in late 2002 and through the beginning of the 2003 MLB season. Syringes and a calendar detailing when he should take the substances were included in the first shipment, Giambi testified.
"The clear" turned out to be Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) and "the cream" was a testosterone-based substance.
During cross examination, Bonds attorney Cris Arguedas read Giambi's 2003 grand jury testimony when he testified that Anderson had told him "the clear and the cream had steroid-like effects without being a steroid."
Giambi agreed with that testimony.
Giambi's brother, Jeremy Giambi, testified similarly. Jeremy Giambi played for four MLB teams during a five-year career that ended in 2003.
Neither Giambi provided direct testimony about Bonds. Instead, prosecutors hope to use their testimony - and that of other players - to show that Anderson was a well-known steroids dealer. Anderson is in jail for refusing to testify at the trial. Several other athletes are expected to testify about their relationship with Anderson this week.
Bonds, the MLB record-holder for home runs in a career (762) and a season (73), has pleaded not guilty to four charges that he lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs. He also pleaded not guilty to a charge of obstruction.
The two on Tuesday were the first athletes called to testify at Bonds' perjury trial in San Francisco, which is in its second week.
Appearing calm, Jason Giambi testified that he met trainer Greg Anderson after the 2002 season while both were traveling through Japan with a US all-star team.
When they returned to the United States, Anderson had Giambi's blood tested and it turned up positive for a steroid that Major League Baseball was planning to test for during the 2003 season. "Anderson told me that would trip a Major League Baseball test and that I should take something else," Giambi said.
Giambi said he paid Anderson a total of about US$10,000 for several shipments of steroids known as "the clear" and "the cream" designed to evade detection starting in late 2002 and through the beginning of the 2003 MLB season. Syringes and a calendar detailing when he should take the substances were included in the first shipment, Giambi testified.
"The clear" turned out to be Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) and "the cream" was a testosterone-based substance.
During cross examination, Bonds attorney Cris Arguedas read Giambi's 2003 grand jury testimony when he testified that Anderson had told him "the clear and the cream had steroid-like effects without being a steroid."
Giambi agreed with that testimony.
Giambi's brother, Jeremy Giambi, testified similarly. Jeremy Giambi played for four MLB teams during a five-year career that ended in 2003.
Neither Giambi provided direct testimony about Bonds. Instead, prosecutors hope to use their testimony - and that of other players - to show that Anderson was a well-known steroids dealer. Anderson is in jail for refusing to testify at the trial. Several other athletes are expected to testify about their relationship with Anderson this week.
Bonds, the MLB record-holder for home runs in a career (762) and a season (73), has pleaded not guilty to four charges that he lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs. He also pleaded not guilty to a charge of obstruction.
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