球季要开始了，还有两个大案子也在上演中，
台湾这里注意的却不多，就是火箭人和棒子爷
关于类固醇的伪证案。
火箭人的私人训练员咬死他的前任老板，
棒子爷的训练员完全相反，宁愿去坐牢，
也不肯出卖棒子爷。
昨天的一场作证则有点桃色，和棒子爷交往了9年的前女友出庭作证，
证词还是对棒子爷很不利，特别的是详细叙述了
类固醇对他的性生活的影响：蛋蛋变小、勃起困难.....
棒子爷的辩护律师把Kimberly Bell描绘成只想捞钱的女人，
要不择手段地利用棒子爷的剩余价值，出书、上电台接受访问，
甚至于替花花公子拍裸照。
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/sports/baseball/29
bonds.html?ref=baseball&pagewanted=print
March 28, 2011
Ex-Girlfriend Details How Bonds Changed
By JULIET MACUR
SAN FRANCISCO — Kimberly Bell — who was Barry Bonds’s girlfriend for nine
years, spanning his two marriages — walked into the courtroom on Monday to
testify at his perjury trial, and nearly everyone there turned to gawk at her.
Everyone except Bonds. As Bell took the witness stand, Bonds’s eyes were
fixed on the defense table in Courtroom 10 of the Phillip Burton Federal
Building. He knew what was coming.
For more than a decade, baseball and its fans have had to confront certain
aspects of the sport’s steroids scandal: the unfair advantage gained by
players who were using the drugs; the skepticism that baseball’s
drug-testing policy was meaningfully set up to catch anyone; the tainted
careers that have left likely Hall of Famers consigned to ignominy instead.
But on Monday, the public was introduced to what prosecutors insist is
another side of the scandal: the physical toll of taking steroids, in effect
what the athletes who used them were willing to do to their own bodies in
pursuit of an advantage, real or imagined.
It was not pretty.
“He developed acne on his upper shoulders and back; his hair was falling out
quickly, and he ended shaving it all off,” Bell testified of Bonds as the
jury sat to her left, rapt. Then her voice grew so faint it was barely
audible. “He changed sexually, in his testicles and performance and that.”
Between deep breaths and under unsparing questioning, Bell further testified:
“The shape, size of his testicles were smaller, unusual, differently shaped.
” Of Bonds, baseball’s official home run king, she testified that he had to
resort to using “something” to resolve his trouble maintaining an erection.
For nearly six hours, Bell gave graphic and sometimes tearful testimony in
United States District Court about the changes she noticed in Bonds,
including a bloated face and belly. Prosecutors said all of it — the changed
appearance and behavioral qualities — were documented symptoms of steroid
use and thus evidence that Bonds had used them during his career, then lied
about that fact under oath when questioned before a grand jury in 2003.
Bonds’s lawyers, in their cross-examination, tried to paint Bell as a
vindictive, attention-craving gold-digger who was upset about their breakup.
She posed in Playboy for money, was writing a book about her relationship
with Bonds and gave at least 20 radio interviews about the subject, the
defense pointed out.
Those attempts, to be sure, were aimed at blunting the power of her often
explicit firsthand testimony.
Bell said she spoke to Bonds once about his possible steroid use, in 1999,
but never pressed him about it because he told her it was common in baseball.
Besides, she said he told her, he did not inject himself every day, as some
bodybuilders do.
“He mentioned that other players do it and that’s how they got ahead,”
Bell, who dated Bonds from 1994 to 2003, said. “That’s how they achieved.”
Bell testified that she had a good reason for never bringing up the subject
of steroids with him again: she was afraid of him.During their later years together, she said Bonds grew irritable and verbally
abusive — “almost violent.” The government insists that change in his
demeanor was brought about by steroid use.
Bell testified that Bonds threatened “to cut my head off and leave me in a
ditch” and said that “he would cut out my breast implants because he paid
for them.” He also said he was going to burn her house down, she said.
“I didn’t want to make him angry,” Bell said, growing teary. “I didn’t
want him to yell at me.”
Their relationship started differently, she said. Bell first met Bonds in the
parking lot of the San Francisco Giants’ stadium in the summer of 1994, then
chatted with him the next day at a friend’s barbecue. She took a long drive
with him in his new Porsche and spent the night with him that night,
beginning their long relationship.
Bell said the first she heard of Bonds’s steroid use in 1999, when he talked
about an elbow injury he had.
“He said it was because of steroids,” she said, adding that he explained
that the muscle and tendons grew faster than the joint,ꔠso his elbow simply “
blew out.”
Bell said she soon discovered that those achievements came at a cost. Bonds
asked her to help clear up the acne on his back and shoulders, she said. She
also remembered him standing in front of a mirror at spring training in 2000
and asking if she thought the bloating and puffiness in his face and belly
were noticeable to others.
Yet she stayed with him. At times, he gave her money, in the thousands, and
even helped her move to Arizona and put a down payment of $60,000 or maybe
$80,000 on a house there shortly after he married his second wife, she said.
The defense questioned Bell’s motivation for testifying against Bonds, which
she first did before a federal grand jury in 2005. Bell was angry that Bonds
told her to “disappear” in early 2003, said Cris Arguedas, one of Bonds’s
lawyers.
Arguedas said, “Sell a book that capitalizes on his fame, make a bunch of
money, that was one part of your plan, wasn’t it?”
The Giants’ equipment manager, Mike Murphy, also testified Monday and said
that Bonds’s cap size changed from 7 ¼ to 7That chan꜊