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A-Rod's Enhanced Performance
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Alex Rodriguez spoke with ESPN's Peter Gammons last week about his steroid use but repudiated most of those comments this morning and released the following statement to Couch Slouch:
When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I needed to perform at a high level every day. To be quite honest, I was having problems at home, too, and everybody out there knows what that's like.
I did take a banned substance. And for that, I am very sorry and deeply regretful. To be quite honest, I'm more sorry and deeply regretful that I got caught.
I don't know exactly what substance I was guilty of using, but I know exactly when I took them -- 2001 to 2003 sounds pretty accurate. Give or take.
It was such a loosey-goosey era, kind of like the years when disco was big.
I'm guilty of a lot of things. I'm guilty of being negligent, naive, not asking the right questions. I'm guilty of a throwing error I made against the Angels in '01 that cost us the game, the night I was thinking about an argument I had with my wife at Safeway that morning -- she thought I was a little "too friendly" with the cashier at Checkout 3.
I hated lying to Katie Couric -- what a sweet lady -- but to be quite honest, I was lying to myself at the time.
It's not as if I lied to Congress, like Miguel Tejada.
Actually, I'd welcome Capitol Hill calling me in; I've always loved women in business suits.
I am sorry for the Texas years. I apologize to the fans of Texas. I mean, I was popping PEDs like Pepcid pills, and our record those years was still only 73-89, 72-90 and 71-91.
You basically end up trusting the wrong people, like Jose Canseco. You end up, you know, not being careful about what you're ingesting, like Big Macs and Slim Jims.
You have nutritionists, you have doctors, you have trainers. That's the right question today: Where did you get it? Let me say this: I love GNC. Easy in, easy out. Ample parking. They were like the Home Depot of PEDs although, to be quite honest, I'm not sure what I was purchasing.
