Barry Bonds Trial Update
Earlier this week, Kimberly Bell, former mistress of Barry Bonds, got me laughing by getting into the dirty details regarding her former partner’s alleged steroid-related shrinkage. She met Bonds in 1994 and over the course of their nine years together, saw Barry change in more ways than simply bulking up; in fact, she testified specifically about the effects to his “Kool and the Gang” caused by his alleged steroid use. According to TerezOwens.com:
Called by federal prosecutors to the witness stand in Bonds’ perjury trial, she testified that Bonds’ sexual performance declined in the later years of their relationship. She also said that his testicles changed shape and shrank…Another side effect of steroid use. Bell also testified that Bonds grew and shaved chest hair and developed acne on his back…
The technical term for that is “backne.” I just can’t wait to see who federal prosecutors call next. Are they going to call his teammates from the 80s who saw him naked in the locker room in order to testify as to his formerly massive package? Is the jury going to get the luxury of visuals, such as before-and-after photographic comparisons documenting this wiener change? But I digress…
Wednesday’s testimony came primarily from current and former employees of UCLA’s Olympic Lab, which tested a urine sample from Bonds obtained during baseball’s 2003 testing program, and which tested positive for “the clear.” Prosecutors have now indicated they only have three witnesses left: Kathy Hoskins, Bonds’ former personal shopper; Dr. Arthur Ting, the slugger’s former orthopedic surgeon; and Don Catlin, a renowned anti-doping expert who tested a 2003 drug sample from Bonds. Prosecutors have declined to call Bobby Estalella, a Giant during the 2000 and 2001 seasons who presumably would have testified to occasions when Bonds told him about using performance enhancing drugs, former Giants Benito Santiago and Armando Rios, and former Balco VP James Valente.
Bonds faces four counts of perjury and one count of obstructing justice for lying to a federal grand jury about steroid use.
