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| − | + | When I heard about the big bust in Florida, of Tony Bosh and his Biogenesis operation, I rang up Victor Conte. | |
| − | + | Conte was the BALCO scandal kingpin who wound up serving an eight-month sentence, and since coming out has worked with, and offered to work with, numerous anti-doping agencies, lending his insider expertise to the good guys. | |
| − | + | Conte runs Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning (SNAC) in San Carlos and trains/sponsors many top athletes, including Frank Gore and Michael Crabtree, and several boxers. | |
| − | + | Here are some of Conte鈥檚 comments from our conversation Tuesday morning: | |
| − | I | + | 鈥淭he federal (sentencing) guidelines have changed since BALCO. I got an eight-month sentence, split into four and four鈥揻our months in a minimum-security prison and four months in an ankle bracelet. . .In my case I was the so-called heavy. Greg Anderson got three-and-three. Being the leader pushed me up into the eight-month category. What I鈥檓 telling you, one, when you have a conspiracy, the leader, Tony Bosch, will get an extra two points, which will push him up into a higher category on the federal sentencing guidelines. And secondly, the Feds have stated publicly that they adjusted the sentencing guideless, post BALCO, where it鈥檚 five times greater punishment now, as a result of the BALCO case. . . |
| − | + | 鈥淭here鈥檚聽 going to be some leniency, (Bosch <a href=http://www.alportico.net/prodotti/christianlouboutin-sale.jkmsw.php>Cheap Christian Louboutin</a> is) going to roll, I think. . .There was absolutely no cooperation by me with the Feds. The reason was that I was the leader, people trusted me, people were following me, I鈥檓 not going to turn around and give information on others. Early on I made the decision that I鈥檓 going to accept full responsibility and consequences for my wrongdoing, and if that means going to prison, that鈥檚 what I do. . .For me, the right thing to do was to accept full consequences and do my time. . .I guarantee you they will offer (Bosch) some sort of deal to testify against other people, and the punishments are five times greater today than they were for me. . .Unless he decides he can cut some deal and cooperate, takes a completely different approach than I did, it would seem he鈥檚 looking at some minimum security prison time. | |
| − | + | 聽 | |
| − | + | 鈥淚 believe these other nine people are going to roll on him. That鈥檚 how the Feds operate, whoever rolls first gets the best deal. . .It鈥檒l be interesting to see who <a href=http://www.alportico.net/prodotti/christianlouboutin-sale.jkmsw.php>Christian Louboutin Shoes</a> rolls on who first. | |
| + | 鈥淎ll this to me seems likely to add up to prison time, and far more time than I served. | ||
| + | 聽 | ||
| + | On the list of names of baseball players who were Biogenesis clients that the Feds say they uncovered: | ||
| + | 聽 | ||
| + | 鈥淩emember when they said (after the initial Biogenesis scandal) there were about 100 players involved? And they came up with 14 or 15 that got some sort of suspension. It will be interesting to see, are they going to dribble out these other 85 names? Are they going to give out a list of all of them at the same time? You remember when the 104 players who tested positive during the survey in 2003, they came out with a couple of the names, and we never heard who the rest of them were? So it will be interesting to see how many of these 85 names come out.鈥? | ||
| + | 聽 | ||
| + | On MLB drug testing: | ||
| + | 聽 | ||
| + | 鈥淚鈥檝e been saying this for years now. If you鈥檙e going to catch the fish, you have to put your hook and line in the water when the fish are biting. In the case of MLB, that鈥檚 the off-season. And believe me, in track and field or any sport, when you use PEDs during the off-season. . .in conjunction with an intense weight-training program, the gains you get will last you throughout the entire competitive season. . .That is my problem, that it says in the MLB agreement that they can test up to 375 players (in the off-season), which is about 30 percent of the league. | ||
| + | 鈥淗owever, what the statistics show is, over the last five years, they average about 50 players per off-season. So if you have the right to test and you鈥檙e serious about cleaning up the sport, and you know when the fish are biting is during the off-season, and you have every right per the collective bargaining agreement to put your hook and line in the water when they鈥檙e feeding and biting, and you can test up to 375 players, why do you only test 50? So I don鈥檛 believe there鈥檚 a genuine interest in catching people. That鈥檚 a giant loophole that needs to be fixed.鈥? | ||
| + | 聽 | ||
| + | Conte was saying in 2011 that the biggest loophole in the MLB testing was tht the testing made it easy for players to use synthetic testosterone and get away with it, since it was traceable only for several hours. | ||
| + | 聽 | ||
| + | 鈥淚 said the biggest loophole is synthetic testosterone, and they鈥檙e using this four-to-one (testosterone-to-epitestosterone) ratio, and not the Carbon Isotope Ratio testing (CIR), because you can circumvent the allowable T-E ratio in <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/gucciusaonlineoutlet.php>gucci outlet</a> a matter of a few hours, where the other will be detectable for two weeks. . . | ||
| + | 鈥淚 said at the time that I believe that MLB, on an annual basis, tests less than five percent of the samples collected using this CIR methods. And I said it鈥檚 likely less than one percent. Well, later MLB come out and said they had increased the amount of CIR testing, to 10 percent of the samples. | ||
| + | 鈥淏asically, unless you鈥檙e being targeted because of a previous positive drug test or some other reason, typically in baseball they test you once when you get to training camp, that鈥檚 an IQ test, and then once during the season. Knowing that, once you get the only random test (during the season). . .I believe that means green light, you can use all the drugs you like because you鈥檝e already been tested twice. | ||
| + | 鈥淒o I think a lot of these players that did get in trouble, the 15 with Biogenisis, did that serve as a deterrent, are guys a little more careful? Is there some benefit from this? Yes. But do I believe that the use of PEDs in major league baseball is still rampant? I do.鈥? | ||
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@@@ When I heard about the big bust in Florida, of Tony Bosh and his Biogenesis operation, I rang up Victor Conte. Conte was the BALCO scandal kingpin who wound up serving an eight-month sentence, and since coming out has worked with, and offered to work with, numerous anti-doping agencies, lending his insider expertise to the good guys. Conte runs Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning (SNAC) in San Carlos and trains/sponsors many top athletes, including Frank Gore and Michael Crabtree, and several boxers. Here are some of Conte鈥檚 comments from our conversation Tuesday morning: 鈥淭he federal (sentencing) guidelines have changed since BALCO. I got an eight-month sentence, split into four and four鈥揻our months in a minimum-security prison and four months in an ankle bracelet. . .In my case I was the so-called heavy. Greg Anderson got three-and-three. Being the leader pushed me up into the eight-month category. What I鈥檓 telling you, one, when you have a conspiracy, the leader, Tony Bosch, will get an extra two points, which will push him up into a higher category on the federal sentencing guidelines. And secondly, the Feds have stated publicly that they adjusted the sentencing guideless, post BALCO, where it鈥檚 five times greater punishment now, as a result of the BALCO case. . . 鈥淭here鈥檚聽 going to be some leniency, (Bosch <a href=http://www.alportico.net/prodotti/christianlouboutin-sale.jkmsw.php>Cheap Christian Louboutin</a> is) going to roll, I think. . .There was absolutely no cooperation by me with the Feds. The reason was that I was the leader, people trusted me, people were following me, I鈥檓 not going to turn around and give information on others. Early on I made the decision that I鈥檓 going to accept full responsibility and consequences for my wrongdoing, and if that means going to prison, that鈥檚 what I do. . .For me, the right thing to do was to accept full consequences and do my time. . .I guarantee you they will offer (Bosch) some sort of deal to testify against other people, and the punishments are five times greater today than they were for me. . .Unless he decides he can cut some deal and cooperate, takes a completely different approach than I did, it would seem he鈥檚 looking at some minimum security prison time. 聽 鈥淚 believe these other nine people are going to roll on him. That鈥檚 how the Feds operate, whoever rolls first gets the best deal. . .It鈥檒l be interesting to see who <a href=http://www.alportico.net/prodotti/christianlouboutin-sale.jkmsw.php>Christian Louboutin Shoes</a> rolls on who first. 鈥淎ll this to me seems likely to add up to prison time, and far more time than I served. 聽 On the list of names of baseball players who were Biogenesis clients that the Feds say they uncovered: 聽 鈥淩emember when they said (after the initial Biogenesis scandal) there were about 100 players involved? And they came up with 14 or 15 that got some sort of suspension. It will be interesting to see, are they going to dribble out these other 85 names? Are they going to give out a list of all of them at the same time? You remember when the 104 players who tested positive during the survey in 2003, they came out with a couple of the names, and we never heard who the rest of them were? So it will be interesting to see how many of these 85 names come out.鈥? 聽 On MLB drug testing: 聽 鈥淚鈥檝e been saying this for years now. If you鈥檙e going to catch the fish, you have to put your hook and line in the water when the fish are biting. In the case of MLB, that鈥檚 the off-season. And believe me, in track and field or any sport, when you use PEDs during the off-season. . .in conjunction with an intense weight-training program, the gains you get will last you throughout the entire competitive season. . .That is my problem, that it says in the MLB agreement that they can test up to 375 players (in the off-season), which is about 30 percent of the league. 鈥淗owever, what the statistics show is, over the last five years, they average about 50 players per off-season. So if you have the right to test and you鈥檙e serious about cleaning up the sport, and you know when the fish are biting is during the off-season, and you have every right per the collective bargaining agreement to put your hook and line in the water when they鈥檙e feeding and biting, and you can test up to 375 players, why do you only test 50? So I don鈥檛 believe there鈥檚 a genuine interest in catching people. That鈥檚 a giant loophole that needs to be fixed.鈥? 聽 Conte was saying in 2011 that the biggest loophole in the MLB testing was tht the testing made it easy for players to use synthetic testosterone and get away with it, since it was traceable only for several hours. 聽 鈥淚 said the biggest loophole is synthetic testosterone, and they鈥檙e using this four-to-one (testosterone-to-epitestosterone) ratio, and not the Carbon Isotope Ratio testing (CIR), because you can circumvent the allowable T-E ratio in <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/gucciusaonlineoutlet.php>gucci outlet</a> a matter of a few hours, where the other will be detectable for two weeks. . . 鈥淚 said at the time that I believe that MLB, on an annual basis, tests less than five percent of the samples collected using this CIR methods. And I said it鈥檚 likely less than one percent. Well, later MLB come out and said they had increased the amount of CIR testing, to 10 percent of the samples. 鈥淏asically, unless you鈥檙e being targeted because of a previous positive drug test or some other reason, typically in baseball they test you once when you get to training camp, that鈥檚 an IQ test, and then once during the season. Knowing that, once you get the only random test (during the season). . .I believe that means green light, you can use all the drugs you like because you鈥檝e already been tested twice. 鈥淒o I think a lot of these players that did get in trouble, the 15 with Biogenisis, did that serve as a deterrent, are guys a little more careful? Is there some benefit from this? Yes. But do I believe that the use of PEDs in major league baseball is still rampant? I do.鈥?
