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0 5 - 0 4 - 2 0 0 6 Fan Tosses Syringe Near Bonds
AP A fan tossed a syringe near Barry Bonds as he came off the field in between innings on Monday at Petco Park, and the San Francisco Giants slugger said he picked it up in his glove and carried it off the field. The syringe apparently did not have a needle.
"I just put it off the field so no one would get hurt," said Bonds, who is
under investigation by baseball "If that's what they want to do, embarrass themselves, then that's on them," Bonds said. "That has nothing to do with me at all."
According to the book "Game of Shadows,"
Bonds, who has denied using performance-enhancing drugs, was booed often by the sellout crowd of 43,767 on Monday. "I don't judge them," Bonds said. "I have to concentrate on baseball. I leave that up to you guys to make those statements in the paper." Richard Andersen, the Padres executive in charge of Petco Park, didn't immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. 1 8 - 0 4 - 2 0 0 6 Fan arrested for throwing tube at Bonds
Man reportedly upset over not getting autograph years ago
By Barry M. Bloom PHOENIX -- A local college student with a longtime grudge against Barry Bonds was arrested Monday night for tossing what was characterized as a tube of toothpaste at the Giants slugger while he was standing in left field during the fourth inning. Mark Greggersen, 23, of nearby Show Low, Ariz., was booked into the Maricopa County jail on the charge of disorderly conduct, the Arizona Diamondbacks reported during the Giants' 10-9 win at Chase Field. "My problems with Barry Bonds started long before steroids," Greggersen told a reporter from the East Valley Tribune, who found the Mesa Community College student in the left-field bleachers. "It was the lack of an autograph for a 7-year-old." Greggersen, who was wearing a necklace with a syringe dangling from it, said Bonds hadn't given him an autograph during a long-ago Spring Training game. Bonds traditionally carries baseball cards with an autograph etched across his image and passes them out during games. Greggersen also said the unmarked tube had a sports gel in it, not toothpaste. Bonds pointed the object out to a security guard, who retrieved it from the grass behind him. Bonds, who was 1-for-3 with two intentional walks before coming out of the game for a pinch-runner in the eighth inning, told MLB.com he didn't want to talk about the incident. He also didn't make himself available to the media after the game, the Giants' eighth win in their first 12 contests. Monday night was the second time during the Giants' first two road trips that a fan has thrown an object toward Bonds on the field. On Opening Night in San Diego, Bonds picked up an oversized syringe with his fielding glove as he crossed the foul line walking toward the dugout in the eighth inning. The Padres, using the feeds from video security cameras, searched the stands behind the third-base dugout at PETCO Park in the days after the game, but to no avail. No one was arrested for the incident. On Monday night, local security at Chase Field descended on Greggersen almost immediately. "We take that stuff very seriously," Diamondbacks President Richard H. Dozer told the Associated Press. "We had three guys on [the fan] before the follow-up was through." Major League Baseball has also taken security issues surrounding Bonds very seriously this season. Fans, on the road particularly, have been loud and abusive, although the 21,610 in attendance Monday were relatively calm in comparison to the three-game weekend series in Los Angeles. |
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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
(Wilmore and Costill) 
