The Patrick Arnold interview on HBO with Bob Costas, which can be seen here, seems to be the talk of the sporting world. Hell, even Barry Bonds is letting his feelings be known on the subject.In the interview Arnold talks about how he feels that Gary Sheffield and Barry Bonds definetely took the steroids, and definetely knew what they were. Even though they didn't have to stick any needles in their butt.
Well Gary Sheffield not only didn't know he was taking steroids, he also doesn't know who Patrick Arnold is.
"We can all claim a lot of things. I claim a lot of things, too. But I don't know this guy, never seen this guy," Sheffield said Wednesday about chemist Patrick Arnold. "I certainly don't know him. He may know of me."Well Gary, he's the guy who invented the stuff that you took but didn't know it was steroids because you didn't stick any needles in your butt. It's pretty cut and dry, buddy.
I'm in no position to say whether or not Sheffield knowingly took performance enhancing drugs like steroids and HGH, I wasn't there and Gary has never told me. (I call him all the time and ask too.) What I do know is that of all the things that Gary Sheffield is, he's not an idiot. He says some things without thinking about the consequences once in a while, but it doesn't mean there's no validity to what he says. That's why, much like Arnold, I don't really buy into Sheffield's defense that he had no idea what he was taking.
Previously at FanHouse:
The Patrick Arnold Interview
Gary Sheffield: Bonds Is Best Player Ever
BALCO Chemist Says Barry Bonds and Gary Sheffield Took Performance-Enhancers
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-26-2007 @ 5:28PM
Harry Shaffer said...
It's too bad there is something Bob Costas could take to give himself a real career. He is a bad joke. Acclaimed commentator spelled backwards is can't keep a job.
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7-27-2007 @ 9:02AM
E said...
Sheffield is a racist BAN HIM!
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7-27-2007 @ 6:58PM
roanne said...
BOB COSTAS PROBABLY KNOWS MORE ABOUT BASEBALL THAN GARY BONDS DOES AND HES NOT FOOLISH ENOUGH TO MAKE ANY COMMENT WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO BACK IT. SOOO GARY CLEAN UP YOUR ACT. KIDS LOOK UP TO YOU. ROANNE
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7-27-2007 @ 7:00PM
roanne said...
CORRECTION BARRY NOT GARY ROANNE
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7-28-2007 @ 10:34AM
jeff said...
Sheff is/has been a problem everywhere he's played.
Bonds is a juicer and shouln't have the record. Clemens,Pettite & tehada should be outed HGH is undetectable and they're all still on it!!!!. Hammering Hank should be celebrated for being a great player and human being.
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7-28-2007 @ 11:42AM
DR. FRED HAWES said...
THE BALCO CHEMIST IS LOOKING FOR A PLEA DEAL....HE CANNOT TESTIFY THAT ANYONE TOOK HIS FUZZY TONIC, BUT HE NEEDS HELP TO DEFUSE THE GRAND JURY INDICTMENTS AND HAS HIRED COSTAS TO LAY A FALSE PAPER TRAIL...COSTAS IS A LOSER AND COULD NOT RECONIZE A BALL PLAYER IF HE SAW ONE...HAVE HIM ANSWER ABOUT THE BOOZER OF THE 40'S, 50'S, 60'S AND 70'S IN THE GAME, EVEN RUTH WAS A BOOZER AND HIT 715, IS COSTA SAYING RUTH WASN'T ONE OF THE GREATEST....715 HOMERS IN HOW MANY GAMES ????
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8-01-2007 @ 1:28AM
George B Vieto said...
Just like the people in Guyana who drank the poison and they were told it was Kool Aid because Jim Jones of the People's Temple told them so.
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