A couple of days ago news broke that Marlon Byrd has been receiving supplements from BALCO founder Victor Conte. This is the same Conte who supplied Jason Giambi, Barry Bonds, and Marion Jones among others with steroids of all kinds. He is the same steroid dealer who was made famous in the book Game of Shadows (excellent book) and the same guy who thinks that professional players should be super humans and the public wants to see juiced athletes.
So why does Marlon Byrd want to get his supplements from this guy? This is like someone who wants to buy a gun and decides to go see the Taliban instead of their local gun store. Why does Byrd choose to put his name in the same sentence as this guy?
Well apparently he has been doing this for the last 18 months and has not failed a drug test but don't think that this story is going away. This will not be the last piece of news to come out on this subject.
Byrd's 2009 stats: .285 avg, 4 HR, 33 RBI
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