On March 17, 2005, Rafael Palmeiro appeared before a
congressional committee investigating steroid use by major
league baseball players...
and declared:
jabbed his
finger in
the air for
emphasis
“Let me start by telling you this:
I have never used steroids.
Period.
I don’t know how to say it any more
clearly than that.
Never.”
5 months later, Palmeiro tested positive for the
powerful steroid STANOZOLOL.
On reconsideration...
Palmeiro
jabbed
his
finger in
the air -
again...
and declared:
"I am here to make it very clear
that I have never
intentionally used steroids.
Never.
Ever.
Period."
"I feel terrible that this has
happened, but I think there
is something to be gained
from it."
-Rafael Palmeiro
Rafael Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days. He will lose
$163,934 of his $3 million salary during the suspension.
Not everyone thinks Palmeiro is guilty...
“Why would I do this in a
year when I went in front of
Congress and I testified and
I told the truth?

“Why would I do this during
a season where I was going
to get to 3,000 hits?

It just makes no sense...

I’m not a crazy person.”
"He's testified in public,
and I believe him," said
President Bush.
-Rafael Palmeiro
The 40-year-old Palmeiro became the
seventh player to fail a test under the
toughened major league policy that
took effect in March, rules criticized by
Congress as not being stringent
enough.
Sammy Sosa testing if
Palmeiro is crazy,
Baseball officials found
this baseball-size
steroid with Rafael
Palmeiro's name on it in
the locker room.
For some, in baseball, steroids gives
the player control over the ball. It is
said Palmeiro mastered it to the point
he could stop the ball in mid-air just by
staring at it, although there is no proof
of this...
On July 15, 2005, Palmeiro joined
Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Eddie
Murray as the only players with 3,000
hits and 500 homers.

Palmeiro, is currently in ninth place on
the all-time home runs list with 569.
What legal diet
supplement could
enhance this guy's
performance?
If you think it is
unprofessional for an
American icon to use
performance
enhancing
substances, you just
don't know Americans
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