McGwire linked to steriods

[CanadianChris 0]

They just had a big story on this during halftime of the basketball game on ESPN. Apparently, FBI informers tipped off that McGwire used steroids.

 

Probably not the most earthshattering news ever, but there ya go.

 

EDIT: Here is the story:

 

Five days before the House Government Reform Committee is scheduled to question current and former major-league baseball players about steroids, one of the subpoened players, Mark McGwire, is a prominent figure of a month-long investigation by the New York Daily News.

 

Citing FBI sources, the newspaper reported that McGwire's name came up several times in a landmark anabolic steroids investigation that led to 70 convictions in the early 1990s.

 

While evidence against McGwire was never collected and he was not a target in the investigation, two steroid dealers caught in the probe told the Daily News that another dealer provided McGwire and Jose Canseco, among others, with illegal anabolic steroids. The Daily News said an informant told the paper that a California man named Curtis Wenzlaff injected McGwire on several occassions at a gym in Southern California. A former member of the gym where McGwire and Wenzlaff allegedly worked out together told the paper that he heard the two discuss steroids.

 

According to one of the informants, who the FBI said provided credible information throughout its probe, McGwire's regimen reportedly included injecting himself in the buttocks once every three days with two testosterone substances and weekly with another.

 

When contacted by the Daily News, Wenzlaff had no comment about the McGwire accounts but admitted turning Canseco from a novice into an expert steroid user.

 

According to the paper, representatives for McGwire and Canseco said the two did not remember meeting Wenzlaff and were not aware their names came up in the investigation.

 

"We're not going to comment on anything at this time but we believe one should consider the sources of such allegations," McGwire's representative said.

 

"Jose doesn't want to deny knowing him, but he just doesn't remember the guy," Canseco's attorney said.

 

McGwire has always denied using steroids, including as recently as last month, when Canseco's book was published.

 

Wenzlaff was introduced to the A's by longtime friend Reggie Jackson, who Wenzlaff insists never used steroids or knew that Wenzlaff was dealing them.

[DerangedHermit 0]

WOW! HOLY SHIT. I would have never guessed.

[Brett Favre 0]

You think you know people.

[DerangedHermit 0]

Next, they'll say Barry Bonds actually KNEW it was steroids, and not flaxseed oil and pain cream.

[CanadianChris 0]

You guys sound like you're not very surprised at this.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I'm not. And I don't really care either. And when I read that Big Mac dies from a heart attack in the near future I won't do a double take either...

[iggymcfly 0]

I just wonder if anyone is actually surprised by this. I was about 98% sure that he used roids before this, and this is just a confirmation.

 

When someone goes from hitting 70 HRs to not being able to bat .200 in two years, he's basically just making a public service announcement that says "I USED STEROIDS TO SET A RECORD AND NOW MY BODY'S GONE TO SHIT".

[Bored 0]

This still means nothing. Canseco says he doesn't know who the guy is. He'd have no reason to protect McGwire at this point after what he said in his book. That's if you actually believe Canseco's book. In the end this is a nothing story that provides no more evidence than we had before.