Major League Baseball will ask the disgraced slugger to meet with its investigators in the coming weeks to further explain his admitted use of performance-enhancing drugs, two sources familiar with MLB's plans told ESPN.
After two public confessions, one with ESPN's Peter Gammons and the other at a news conference in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, Rodriguez will be asked to give a full account of how extensive his drug use was and who the "cousin" is who Rodriguez says injected him with a drug believed to be the anabolic steroid methenolone. Rodriguez said they bought the drug, which he termed "boli," from a pharmacy in the Dominican Republic.
"They're more interested in what happened in the States than in the Dominican," one source said.
Representatives from MLB's department of investigations are expected to ask Rodriguez whether his cousin, whom Rodriguez declined to name, had access to major league clubhouses and other players, and whether he or Rodriguez ever distributed drugs to other players. Under baseball's labor agreement, Rodriguez cannot be punished for any banned substances he took before 2004, but he could be punished if MLB were to determine that he supplied drugs to other players.
The sources who spoke to ESPN said that MLB must formally request a meeting through the players' association and that Rodriguez will be allowed to appear with a lawyer and a union representative if he chooses.Great, more nonsense for A-Rod to deal with. Hopefully this interrogation takes place before the season and everyone can move on.One source said commissioner Bud Selig could choose to punish Rodriguez if he feels the player isn't forthcoming, although the union would be likely to fight any such action.
If what he said yesterday was true, and he sticks to that story, then I can't see him being punished by the league. He used before 2004, and according to his story, didn't tell anyone. So I doubt he was supplying anyone with his "boli."
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I wish they'd drop it already. He failed an anonymous test that was never supposed to be made public!
I agree. I don't think anything will be achieved by this.
I agree with Johnny Damon on this.
Though it almost made me choked on my tea.
How about they get the other 103 freaking names off the stupid list and interview THEM?
It's a shame that there's a double standard on this. If some "nobody" was the one name that came out, they'd have a 5 minute intervew and nobody would talk to them again.
Honestly, I think the fans have already moved on about the A-Rod PEDs. Even fans of other teams and Yankee haters probably aren't all that interested in the details of what A-Rod did, when he did it, etc. I just don't think people care. It's the media that has some bizarre fixation about the whole thing. You'd think they'd want to give their audience what they want, and at this point, I honestly think the audience had heard all it wants to hear and they just want to move on and hear ACTUAL baseball news.
MLB Network, ESPN, etc need to start covering actual baseball now. The reporters and beat writers need to do the same.
leave the guy alone- he came clean enough is enough
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