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DaytonBuck
I've always liked them
3074326;1410411; said:
Oh, ok. If it's like Mexico, everything is over the counter
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BuckeyeMac;1410418; said:
I think that's actually what he was talking about. His steroid response is actualyl "I took 'em, fuck off. Next?"
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DaytonBuck
I've always liked them
BuckeyeMac;1410418; said:
I find this scenario highly likely
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buckeyes_rock
Great day to be a Buckeye
3074326;1410416; said:
Yeah, wasn't he like 26 or something?
And big question is, OK...so you sign a contract for what?...a quarter billion??...and you trust some cousin who's going to shoot you up with some crap for 3 years and you don't even know what it is or how much to take? C'mon...he couldn't be that stupid right? I mean he could've bought a lot of under the table medical advice, but he chose to just let his cousin shoot him up a few times a month?
I don't know...just sounds a little odd. But I'm sure his PR team had quite a while to write his little prepared statement, so apparently someone thinks this is good enough for the public to believe.
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Saw this about the other Rodriguez, Pudge, via Rob Neyer's blog on ESPN.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/sports/baseball/16camps.html?_r=2&ref=baseball
"Only God knows?" Seriously? So you don't know if you failed that survey PED test or not?
The more I hear these guys responses, the more I am beginning to suspect that these guys overwhelmingly believe that PEDs = 80s-era anabolic steroid injections, but everything else is probably OK.
It's like the way marijuana smokers deny being on drugs, 'cause they don't do "the crazy, dangerous shit."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/sports/baseball/16camps.html?_r=2&ref=baseball
"Only God knows?" Seriously? So you don't know if you failed that survey PED test or not?
The more I hear these guys responses, the more I am beginning to suspect that these guys overwhelmingly believe that PEDs = 80s-era anabolic steroid injections, but everything else is probably OK.
It's like the way marijuana smokers deny being on drugs, 'cause they don't do "the crazy, dangerous shit."
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Dryden;1410519; said:
Er, isn't that an admission of use, then? My response would be "Of course not, because I didn't use them" otherwise.
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Exactly. Pudge has essentially admitted to taking something, but will not acknowledge what it was because he's not sure if it was banned (or detectable) or not.Bucklion;1410520; said:
It's like McGwire rationalizing using andro during (at least) the '97 and '98 seasons, but not believing it was a PED because it wasn't "the hard stuff." I'm wondering if all these guys saw Canseco 'roiding up the old fashioned way and equated that to being 'wrong,' but the way they were going about doing it with "new medicine" was 'right.'
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A good piece from ESPN's ombudsman, Le Anne Schreiber, who takes ESPN to task for giving stars like TO and A-Rod exclusive sit-downs, then lobbing them softball questions.
Ombudsman: Peter Gammons' interview with Alex Rodriguez no Frost/Nixon - ESPN
Worth pointing out that the greatest piece of her column is at the very, very bottom ...
Words can't express how much I hope "Interactive Tuesday" stops. Although, I guess this fall I'm probably going to miss not being able to read about Ohio State football for three and a half hours every Tuesday during the weekly televised MAC or Sun Belt game.
Ombudsman: Peter Gammons' interview with Alex Rodriguez no Frost/Nixon - ESPN
Worth pointing out that the greatest piece of her column is at the very, very bottom ...
Words can't express how much I hope "Interactive Tuesday" stops. Although, I guess this fall I'm probably going to miss not being able to read about Ohio State football for three and a half hours every Tuesday during the weekly televised MAC or Sun Belt game.
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Dryden;1410568; said:
Once they perfect the technology of overlaying different chat messages, depending on your cable provider and/or /zip code, it'll get even worse.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
A-Rod says cousin injected him with substance
TAMPA, Fla. ? Alex Rodriguez answered one big question Tuesday, admitting his cousin repeatedly injected him with a substance from the Dominican Republic. The New York Yankees star blamed his 2003 positive test on being young and naive. "I knew we weren't taking Tic Tacs," said Rodriguez, who was joined at the head table by Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and manager Joe Girardi.
Before a horde of reporters at Steinbrenner Field, Rodriguez began by reading a statement in which he again apologized for taking banned drugs from 2001-2003 while he was with the Texas Rangers.
Then Rodriguez turned to his teammates and searched for the right words.
It took 37 seconds ? a break in which he looked side to side, blinked several times, bit his lip and took a sip of water ? then finally looked up and faced Derek Jeter & Co.
"Thank you."
Rodriguez said his cousin introduced him to "boli," saying it was an over-the-counter substance in the Dominican. While with Texas, he said his cousin injected him about twice a month during six-month cycles to get an energy boost.
"I didn't think they were steroids," he said. "That's again part of being young and stupid. It was over the counter. It was pretty simple."
"All these years I never thought I did anything wrong."
He said he wasn't sure how the drug use helped him, but admitted he had more energy.
Rodriguez said he has not used human growth hormone or any other banned drug since then. He refused to identify his cousin.
The three-time AL MVP and baseball's highest-paid player spoke at the Yankees' spring training camp 10 days after Sports Illustrated reported that he tested positive in 2003.
Entire article: A-Rod says cousin injected him with substance
TAMPA, Fla. ? Alex Rodriguez answered one big question Tuesday, admitting his cousin repeatedly injected him with a substance from the Dominican Republic. The New York Yankees star blamed his 2003 positive test on being young and naive. "I knew we weren't taking Tic Tacs," said Rodriguez, who was joined at the head table by Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and manager Joe Girardi.
Before a horde of reporters at Steinbrenner Field, Rodriguez began by reading a statement in which he again apologized for taking banned drugs from 2001-2003 while he was with the Texas Rangers.
Then Rodriguez turned to his teammates and searched for the right words.
It took 37 seconds ? a break in which he looked side to side, blinked several times, bit his lip and took a sip of water ? then finally looked up and faced Derek Jeter & Co.
"Thank you."
Rodriguez said his cousin introduced him to "boli," saying it was an over-the-counter substance in the Dominican. While with Texas, he said his cousin injected him about twice a month during six-month cycles to get an energy boost.
"I didn't think they were steroids," he said. "That's again part of being young and stupid. It was over the counter. It was pretty simple."
"All these years I never thought I did anything wrong."
He said he wasn't sure how the drug use helped him, but admitted he had more energy.
Rodriguez said he has not used human growth hormone or any other banned drug since then. He refused to identify his cousin.
The three-time AL MVP and baseball's highest-paid player spoke at the Yankees' spring training camp 10 days after Sports Illustrated reported that he tested positive in 2003.
Entire article: A-Rod says cousin injected him with substance
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