Ex-Biogenesis director says he gave A-Rod HGH, testosterone (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUPbSkVZsn4oYHZ9qWhyMs46TJ5z2ovA_QQzf8vJ8yPZ-NrmBf3wWv2pcgol_aIeah4PHYdwmP67kIK-yrWswpt1ny1ImPOx5Lw9m-9_nCCZ8Ndk9KxbmUwbIert6uq6m85Zz_rJITYQc/s1600/aar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUPbSkVZsn4oYHZ9qWhyMs46TJ5z2ovA_QQzf8vJ8yPZ-NrmBf3wWv2pcgol_aIeah4PHYdwmP67kIK-yrWswpt1ny1ImPOx5Lw9m-9_nCCZ8Ndk9KxbmUwbIert6uq6m85Zz_rJITYQc/s320/aar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389638629115_11517" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">New York (AFP) - Anthony Bosch says he ran a secret doping program for US athletes out of his Miami clinic, including one specifically tailored for Alex Rodriguez that included testosterone and human growth hormone.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389638629115_11546" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Alex cared. Alex wanted to know. He would study the product. He would study the substance. He would study the dosages," Bosch said.Speaking publicly for the first time, the former Biogenesis director told American news programme "60 Minutes" that he was being paid $12,000 a month in cash by Rodriguez before a probe by Major League Baseball into performance-enhancing drugs forced them to halt their complex doping scheme.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The show, which aired Sunday night, also detailed Bosch's falling out with Rodriguez and the bribes and death threat that Bosch says he received after they stopped working together.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Bosch, the main witness against Rodriguez in the major league probe, said the New York Yankee third baseman's main motivation for taking performance-enhancing drugs was so he could become the first American baseball player to hit 800 home runs.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"He wanted to achieve all his human performance or in this case, sports performance objectives. And the most important one was the 800 home run club. Which was only going to have one member, Alex Rodriguez," Bosch said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">After Bosch was exposed, Rodriguez and 13 others were suspended. All accepted their fate except Rodriguez who appealed. Rodriguez was given a harsher ban after evidence showed he tried to interfere with the probe.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Bosch spent five days testifying at Rodriguez's appeal hearing which the public was barred from attending.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-slideshow go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize " data-list-id="d5e9fcb9-9840-3e6e-b7f0-31d6c1a76f02" data-rapid_p="8" data-type="slideshow" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/alex-rodriguez-1384971483-slideshow/" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Alex Rodriguez"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 196px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="Alex Rodriguez" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="196" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/BhrW53d2ZTodKMl2zycsdA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTE5NjtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/3cb3d20f9048a101480f6a7067004742.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2013 file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez reacts after striking  …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Bosch said he personally injected Rodriguez and once had to draw blood from Rodriguez in the men's stall of a bathroom at a nightclub.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Bosch says he gave Rodriguez a cocktail of performance-enhancing drugs, including a testosterone lozenge the slugger could ingest in the dugout or on the field during games.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"They're so small that you could literally while sitting in the dugout take it, put it in your mouth, and people could think it’s sunflower seeds or a piece of candy or a piece of gum, for that matter," Bosch said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It gives him more energy. It gives him more strength. It gives him more focus. And in combination with the growth hormone, that combination would make playing the game of baseball a lot easier."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Bosch said he has hundreds of text messages that he exchanged with Rodriguez to back up his claim. He said they would use code words for the illegal drugs such as "cohete" for injectable drugs and "night cream" for testosterone.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He said Rodriguez's people tried to buy his silence by offering to fly him to Colombia where they would pay him over $20,000 a month and when things quiet down he could return to America and receive another $150,000.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Bosch declined and said he then started to worry for his safety. He said his then girlfriend received a text message saying that he would not live to see the end of the year.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The MLB Players' Association issued a statement Sunday, criticizing Bosch for talking to "60 Minutes".</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It is unfortunate that Major League Baseball apparently lacks faith in the integrity and finality of the arbitrator's decision and our Joint Drug Agreement, such that it could not resist the temptation to publicly pile-on against Alex Rodriguez," the release said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It is equally troubling ... that Tony Bosch, MLB's principal witness, is appearing on the program with MLB's blessing."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rodriguez, who has vehemently denied that he took performance-enhancing drugs while a member of the Yankees, says he will pursue the case in US federal court.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rodriguez, the highest-paid player in MLB, was slapped with a record 162-game doping suspension by an arbitrator on Saturday, banning him for the entire 2014 season and playoffs.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz upheld most of the 211-game ban imposed upon Rodriguez last August for his role in the Biogenesis doping scandal.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Despite the reduction in total games missed, the suspension remains the longest in the history of MLB for doping, and "A-Rod" remains the highest-profile baseball player ever banned.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389638629115_11598" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rodriguez, whose 654 career homers are 108 shy of Barry Bonds' all-time record, will lose $25 million in salary from the Yankees this year, or about $154,000 for every game missed in 2014 under the record 10-year deal for $275 million he signed in 2007.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389638629115_11598" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><br /></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1389638629115_11598" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">YahooNews</div></div>

Ex-Biogenesis director says he gave A-Rod HGH, testosterone (BLOG)

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