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John Rocker was one the Stephen A. Smith show today to discuss his comments from yesterday about steroids. During the interview he said he would " He 'will swear' that A-Rod never used steroids. He doesn't know about Clemens." The audio of the interview can be found here on ESPN.com.

UPDATE 11:20 PM - This was posted on his website JohnRocker.net:

The Steroid Facts

Well, it looks like the irresponsible dolts of the media are at it again, taking a seemingly cut and dry story and twisting it, tweaking it, embellishing it, and doing what they always seem to do best - which is confuse the hell out of anyone who is simply trying to figure out what the truth about a specific issue is. What I will attempt to do now is cut through the mind-numbing, irrelevant fluff the media loves to fill their airtime and articles with and give you the simple facts that I know and believe to be true, as I have lived them and can explain them much better than some pen jockey who has never spoken to me personally and lives 3000 miles away. Here are the facts using the simplest terms with the most convenient definitions:

1. I did take steroids as a very young man early on in my Major League career.
2. During this period of time drug testing was not a mandatory procedure and had been highly contested by the MLB Players Association. In short, there was no accountability by the players to anyone concerning the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED’s).
3. I was informed by my agent that the MLB Commissioner’s Office, headed by Bud Selig, was making the request that I undergo a non-mandatory drug test in preparation for an upcoming arbitration hearing between myself and the MLB Commissioner’s Office over comments made in a December 1999 Sports Illustrated article.
4. In January of 2000 I agreed to meet with a gentleman from the Major League Baseball Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to undergo a non-mandatory drug urine test.
5. I was encouraged to take this test by my agent in order to pacify an aggressive Commissioner’s Office during the days leading up to this arbitration hearing.
6. Currently, the Commissioner’s Office of MLB has released a statement reflecting that the EAP functions on a strict basis of confidentiality. I do not agree with this statement. At no point was I ever contacted by anyone from the EAP to personally discuss the results regarding my drug test. I was, however, informed by my agent a few days after the test was administered that I had not passed and that steroids had been discovered. That being the case it seems obvious that the EAP does not adhere to such a stringent practice of confidentiality as the Commissioner’s Office would have you believe. I also have an even harder time believing that Bud Selig (President of MLB) and the Commissioner’s Office had no idea of the results of a test which they ordered and that could possibly play an integral part as to their intentions towards me in a very important arbitration hearing. It seems ludicrous to think that the EAP would inform an agent and not the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, but that is what the Commissioners Office would currently like for you to believe.
7. Percentages I have given in the past were merely estimates. They were my opinion as to what the number might be at a given time.
8. Despite the misinformed writings of an ESPN.com journalist, I never had any doctor employed by the MLB Player’s Association or MLB Commissioner’s Office tell me “HOW” to use steroids. I was simply informed by these two gentlemen that steroids, taken in minimal doses and administered correctly, were not physical harmful.
9. Alex Rodriguez, along with 2 other teammates, was a part of this casual conversation. In no way, shape, or form do I believe or have I ever alluded to the opinion that Alex has ever been involved with the use of any PED.
10. I do not know nor would I accuse any front office personnel of any of my former teams that they directly and positively knew what I or any other player was specifically doing as it relates to the use of PED’s.
11. Contradictions between statements I made last year concerning the use of HGH during part of the 2003 season and current statements are correct. At that time, however, that information was on a need to know basis and the specific reporters that I was being interviewed by didn’t need to know. I had no obligation to them and quite frankly had no desire to throw my hat into the national media sponsored PED circus.
12. I have bought Amino Acid compounds over the counter that are converted by the body into HGH.

The media has, as I am sure they will continue to do, muddied the waters relating to me and these various issues. These, however, are the facts as I know them to be and as I experienced them. I, John Rocker, have written every word of this transcript on 2/12/2008 in an attempt to prevent the misconstruing and spin doctoring of irresponsible journalists.

John Rocker
February 12, 2008