[情報] A-Rod: I was stupid
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作者: awhat (La Mer) 看板: MLB
標題: [情報] A-Rod: I was stupid
時間: Tue Feb 10 03:38:10 2009
A-Rod admits, regrets use of PEDs
His voice shaking at times, Alex Rodriguez met head-on allegations that he
tested positive for steroids six years ago, telling ESPN on Monday that he
did take performance-enhancing drugs while playing for the Texas Rangers
during a three-year period beginning in 2001.
"When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I
needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day," Rodriguez told
ESPN's Peter Gammons in an interview in Miami Beach, Fla. "Back then,
[baseball] was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young, I was
stupid, I was naive. I wanted to prove to everyone I was worth being one of
the greatest players of all time.
"I did take a banned substance. For that, I'm very sorry and deeply
regretful."
Rodriguez's admission comes 48 hours after Sports Illustrated reported that
Rodriguez was on a list of 104 players who tested positive for banned
substances in 2003, the year when Major League Baseball conducted survey
tests to see if mandatory, random drug-testing was needed in the sport.
Sources who know about the testing results told SI that Rodriguez tested
positive for testosterone and Primobolan, an anabolic steroid. In his ESPN
interview, Rodriguez said he did not know exactly which substance or
substances he had taken. In 2003, there were no penalties for a positive
result.
"I am sorry for my Texas years," the New York Yankees third baseman said.
"I apologize to the fans of Texas."
Rodriguez, who joined the Yankees for the 2004 season after a trade from
Texas, said "all my years in New York have been clean." He also said it felt
good to be honest about what he's done in the past.
"The more honest we can all be, the quicker we can get baseball [back] to
where it needs to be," he said.
Rodriguez said he was told by Gene Orza, the chief operating officer of the
MLB Players' Association, that he might, or might not, have tested positive
in the 2003 survey. A source told ESPN on Saturday that Rodriguez knew he
had failed the test.
"I had never heard anything since," he said. "Whatever I was experimenting
with in Texas might have been OK."
Rodriguez also said of his 2007 interview with Katie Couric on "60 Minutes,"
when he denied ever using steroids, that "at the time, I wasn't being
truthful with myself. How could I be truthful with Katie Couric or CBS?"
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3894847
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