Thread: John Rocker: Union doctor told A-Rod, me how to use steroids

This guy just loves rocking the boat.

John Rocker: Union doctor told A-Rod, me how to use steroids

BY IAN BEGLEY
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Tuesday, February 12th 2008, 4:00 AM
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John Rocker may have a new enemy in New York City.
The loudmouth former reliever said he and then-Rangers teammate Alex Rodriguez, among others, were advised in spring training of 2002 by management and players' union doctors on how to use steroids in a way that is "not going to hurt you."

Rocker said a doctor hired by the Players' Association pulled aside himself, A-Rod, Ivan Rodriguez and Rafael Palmeiro following a spring training lecture and candidly told them how to use steroids.

"Look guys, if you take one kind of steroid, you don't triple stack them and take them 10 months out of the year like Lyle Alzado did," the doctor told him, Rocker said yesterday during an interview on the Buck and Kincade Show on WCNN-680 The Fan in Atlanta. "If you do it responsibly, it's not going to hurt you."

Alzado, a former Oakland Raider, died of brain cancer in 1992.
Palmeiro tested positive in August 2005 after vehemently denying steroid use before Congress that March.

In the radio interview, Rocker did not accuse A-Rod of using steroids and did not identify any doctor. Through his publicist, Rocker declined comment to the Daily News.
Rodriguez's agent Scott Boras and A-Rod's image consultant Guy Oseary did not return phone calls last night.

A-Rod has never failed a steroids test or been implicated in any drug investigation, but has been the target of thinly veiled accusations by former teammate Jose Canseco. Canseco, the author of the controversial book "Juiced," told radio station WEEI in Boston last summer that he has "other stuff" on the three-time MVP, whom Canseco called a "hypocrite" who "was not all he appeared to be."

After George Mitchell issued his bombshell report on steroid use in baseball in December, Canseco expressed shock that A-Rod was not named in the report. "All I can say is that the Mitchell Report is incomplete," Canseco said at the time. "I could not believe that (Rodriguez's) name was not in the report."

Rocker agreed yesterday with Canseco's assessment of the Mitchell Report being incomplete, while not singling out the omission of Rodriguez. "You go back 15 years and you get 80 names?" Rocker said. "I can come up with 80 names off the top my head."

Rocker's racist rant about the Big Apple in December 1999 angered many New Yorkers and, he claims, led baseball officials to drug-test him in 2000 as part of its disciplinary action against him. Rocker said he failed the test and commissioner Bud Selig knew it. "Bud Selig knew in the year 2000 that John Rocker was taking the juice, and didn't do anything about it," Rocker said in the radio interview.

Rocker trashed Selig earlier yesterday in an interview on Atlanta-based Rock 100.5 FM. "Bud Selig is a clown," Rocker ranted. "He should do the entire world a favor and kill himself. He is a certifiable idiot." LOL

"As part of the disciplinary process, Mr. Rocker was referred to the confidential Employee Assistance Program," Major League Baseball said in a statement. "Any test of Mr. Rocker would have been conducted by professionals who ran the EAP. Those professionals were obligated to maintain the confidentiality of the result. ... Further discipline was not an option legally available to Major League Baseball at that time"
Rocker was named in the Mitchell Report for receiving two prescriptions for HGH in 2003.

I wonder if they will ever have any buddy credible to make these claims.a