Shocked and Appalled

Barry Bonds did steroids. Steroids, people. The link is from the SF Chronicle story; the excerpt below is from THIS story in SI.

The authors, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, describe in sometimes day-to-day, drug-by-drug detail how often and how deeply Bonds engaged in the persistent doping. For instance, the authors write that by 2001, when Bonds broke Mark McGwire's single-season home-run record (70) by belting 73, Bonds was using two designer steroids referred to as the Cream and the Clear, as well as insulin, human growth hormone, testosterone decanoate (a fast-acting steroid known as Mexican beans) and trenbolone, a steroid created to improve the muscle quality of cattle.

I think the most shocking aspect of this story is that San Francisco Chronicle writers were able to come up with enough words to fill a book, even if it did take two of them.