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Alex Rodriguez Identifies Steroid by Street Name During Press Conference
[February 17th, 2009] by Millard Baker
Alex Rodriguez answered media questions during a press conference scheduled after he admitted using prohibiting supplements during 2001-2003. A-Rod acknowledged using a “supplement” that was purchased over-the-counter in the Dominican Republic and imported into the United States by his cousin. Anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs can be legally purchased without a prescription at local pharmacies in the Dominican Republic. A-rod identified the “supplement” as “boli” or “boli” which he claimed to be the street name for the drug. But he denied knowing that is was a steroid or that he was doing anything wrong when his cousin injected the substances into his ass (”Transcript of Alex Rodriguez’s Press Conference,” February 17, 2009).
I didn’t think they were steroids. That’s again the part of being young and stupid. It was over the counter, it was pretty basic. And you know, it was really amateur hour. I mean, it was two guys, we couldn’t go outside, we couldn’t ask anyone, we didn’t want to ask anyone. We went outside team doctors, team trainers. It was two guys doing a very amateur and very immature thing. We probably didn’t even take it right; like I said in my statement, we used to do it about two times a month. I don’t even know if that’s proper. So when this gentleman asked about how it affected us, I’m not sure if we even did it right to affect us in the right way. So all these years, I never thought I did anything that was wrong. Perhaps. But not wrong. But come to figure out that boli triggered a positive test in ’03.
Alex Rodriguez’s answers during the press conference were characterized as vague and inconsistent. In addition, Rodriguez claimed he knew very little about steroids and wasn’t sure he used them correctly. He did not notice any positive or negative effects from the steroids stating that any benefits could have easily been the result of a placebo effect.
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