So much for the “I was young and stupid” A-Fraud story. So much for being given an opportunity to come clean and be accountable for the first time in baseball’s roid era. Apparently when Alex Roidriguez said he bought the Boli OTC in the DR, he was either lying or he was stupid:
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — According to the official in charge of the agency which regulates pharmaceutical drugs in the Dominican Republic, Primobolan was not available for legal purchase, over-the-counter or with a prescription in his country between 2001 and 2003.Dr. Pia Veras, who oversees the regulatory agency, told ESPNdeportes.com that Primobolan is known as “boli” in the streets of Dominican Republic, and was not legal for purchase during the aforementioned years.
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Rodriguez, who tested positive to Primobolan and testosterone, as reported by SI, said Tuesday at Yankees spring training that his cousin, Yuri Sucart, repeatedly injected him from 2001 to ‘03 with a mysterious substance from the Dominican Republic. Rodriguez explained that they bought the over-the-counter drug, which he termed “boli,” from a pharmacy in the Dominican Republic.
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“No pharmacy carries this product; no pharmacy has this product as registered in its inventory,” sadi Pinedo, who oversees the anti-doping testing of Dominican athletes at Olympic level prior to international competitions. “You can get this but you have to go to the underground market.”
2001-2003, huh? And then there’s this:
A trainer banned from Major League Baseball clubhouses for an incident involving performance-enhancing drugs has been a close associate of Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez for several years, so close that a source said he accompanied Rodriguez most of his 2007 MVP season, according to a report in the New York Daily News.The report quoted sources saying Angel Presinal, banned from MLB clubhouses ever since an unmarked bag of steroids was linked to him in October 2001, spent much of 2007 traveling with the third baseman, even staying in the same room as Yuri Sucart — the cousin identified as the one Rodriguez claimed acquired and injected him with steroids in 2001-03 while he was with the Rangers.
“[Presinal] was around Alex in 2007,” a source told the Daily News. “Every hotel they went to, he stayed in the same room with Yuri. You would never see Alex with [Presinal]. They would meet in one of their rooms.”
MLB has warned players to stay away from Presinal, the Daily News reported, but sources told the paper he and Rodriguez had been seen together in New York and Miami as recently as this past fall.
He’s done. The dream is over. Crocodile tears won’t help. Crocodile-filled lakes may.
At least now we know Madonna’s ageless secret. I bet their affair was more about “ka-Boli” and less about kaballah!
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