Spring Training PED update

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, hate me because I'm Alex Rodriguez.

Spring has sprung, and aside from flowers, rain and all that, spring means baseball. Old guys making bad analogies about re-birth, the life cycle and snow covered driveways. And baseball means Yankee minutiae, A-Rod and PED scandals.

Dr. Anthony Galea, the Canadian doctor who is a HGH user and doctor to several elite athletes including A-Rod, Tiger Woods, Carlos Beltran and others, claims that the HGH found in his medical bag during a border crossing was for personal use only and that he has never given athletes the drug.

Right.

The Yankees say that they never authorized Galea to treat Rodriguez. Yeah, I would think the team is probably not in the business of having their players, especially ones who are confessed PED cheats, work with doctors who tout the benefits of HGH use.

Galea says that he only treated Rodriguez with anti-inflammatory drugs. Sure. Whatever you say. You are being investigated by both Canadian and American authorities, you work with a guy who is a drug cheat (Rodriguez), you work with another guy who looks like an NFL safety instead of a PGA Tour player (Woods), but all you do is spin blood and pass out Advil. Why would anyone think differently?

Galea, some dude from Canada, is the only doc capable of treating these world class athletes? Not one guy in the entire US of A could prescribe A-Rod his Motrin? OK, if he says so.

This is bad for A-Rod, but much worse for Woods. We already know that A-Rod is a fraudulent player. He used PEDs, he confessed to using them after being cornered by a reporter, and anything he says is automatically suspect. Once a liar, always a liar.

Tiger never lies.

Woods went out of his way to deny steroid use during his press release, which was odd at the time, and gets more strange by the day. I thought you were there to talk about your pants always being off, not your alleged PED use. Anytime someone goes out of their way to deny something like that, it always makes me more suspicious. See: Clemens, Roger.

Galea is obviously more than what he claims. The list of celebrity athlete doctors is long and distinguished, guys like Dr. James Andrews, Dr. Frank Jobe, and many many others; men who have solid reputations and no hint of scandal or illegal drug use. But Dr. Galea is getting access to some of the world’s best athletes because he prescribes anti-inflammatory drugs.

If you believe that, then you probably also believe that A-Rod only used roids in Texas and that Tiger really was sincere at his press conference.

Joke.