Alex Rodriguez has never tested positive for a test in the past eleven years, either.
Naturally, I can't prove that Ortiz took steroids. But you can definitely count me among the "some people" described below:
" 'Some people still look at me like I'm a cheater because my name was
on a list of players who got flagged for PEDs in 2003,' he wrote. 'Let
me tell you something about that test. Most guys were taking
over-the-counter supplements then. Most guys are still taking
over-the-counter supplements. If it's legal, ballplayers take it. Why?
Because if you make it to the World Series, you play 180 games. Really
think about that for a second. One-hundred-and-eighty games. Your kids
could be sick, your wife could be yelling at you, your dad could be
dying -- nobody cares. Nobody cares if you have a bone bruise in your
wrist or if you have a pulled groin. You're an entertainer. The people
want to see you hit a 95-mile-an-hour fastball over a damn 37-foot
wall.' "
I agree 100% that the pressure to perform drives pro athletes to use illegal performance enhancing substances.
Your long-winded denial kind of sounds like a confession.
"Ortiz wrote that he may have have taken an
over-the-counter supplement that 'all of a sudden MLB comes out and says
there's some ingredient in GNC pills that have a form of steroid in
them. I don't know anything about it.'
'If you think I'm full of
it, go to your kitchen cabinet right now and read the back of a
supplement bottle and honestly tell me you know what all of that stuff
is,' Ortiz wrote. 'I'm not driving across the border to Mexico buying
some shady pills from a drug dealer. I'm in a strip mall across from the
Dunkin' Donuts, bro.' "
I don't doubt that you bought your banned performance enhancing supplement in a strip mall across from the Dunkin' Donuts.
And I ain't your bro.
And I absolutely know what all of the stuff is that is on the back of a supplement bottle. The day before your company's drug test, don't eat a poppy bagel.
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