Demonizing AAS in the media-- again.
This time through Barry Bonds.
Excerpts from an article (by PAUL ELIAS, AP)
"Barry Bonds' former mistress testified Monday that the slugger blamed a 1999 elbow injury on steroid use.
Called by federal prosecutors to the witness stand in Bonds' perjury trial, Kimberly Bell said that she asked Bonds about the problem with his left elbow, which she described as ``a big lump ... it looked awful.''
She testified that Bonds responded by saying his steroid use caused the injury, because the muscle and tendons grew too fast for the joint to handle.
``It blew out,'' she said."
"She further testified that Bonds' sexual performance declined in the later years of their relationship. She said that his testicles changed shape and shrank. Bell also testified that Bonds grew - and shaved - chest hair and developed acne on his back.
A visibly uncomfortable Bell testified that Bonds' behavior also changed in the later years of their relationship.
``He was increasingly aggressive, irritable, agitated and very impatient,'' said Bell, dressed conservatively in a gray jacket and white shirt.
She choked up as she testified that Bonds verbally abused her starting in 1999, threatening ``to cut my head off and leave me in a ditch.'' Bell alleged that Bonds threatened that ``he would cut out my breast implants because he paid for them.''
Prosecutors allege that the physical and mental changes Bell told the jury about during the last four years of their relationship are side effects of steroids use."
