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23, 2003), and Sheffield felt an obligation to try to support Barry.

Even now, with Bud Selig expected to announce a massive investigation into steroid use that will likely include Sheffield - as first reported by the The News - the Yankee outfielder says he has no misgivings about his relationship with Bonds.

"No one ever said anything about this (but) Barry's father was dying then," Sheffield said.

"I was being a friend.

I was there for him through tough times.

Regardless of what was going on around him, I stayed there as a friend, took the abuse because of being a friend." He paused then for a moment and shook his head.

"I could have left Barry," he continued.

"I could have let him just drown in his own blood.

But I didn't.

I'm not that kind of person....As a man, I have to take all these shots that everybody comes at me with the steroids because I was there for him.

If people want to attack, go ahead because you don't know.

You don't know what kind of friend I am, what kind of person I am." His relationship with Bonds is not the only reason Sheffield has been linked to steroids, but it is certainly at the heart of it.

Sheffield detailed his contentious relationship with Bonds in a Sports Illustrated article in 2004, which is also when he described his gran...

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