[新聞] Baseball Said to Be Inquiring About Rodriguez Drug Use

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來自New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/sports/baseball/03arod.html?ref=sports



Baseball Said to Be Inquiring About Rodriguez Drug Use



Major League Baseball is investigating the accuracy of statements by Alex
Rodriguez about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, according to people
within baseball who were briefed on the matter.


Investigators have contacted several of Rodriguez’s associates to determine
whether he used performance-enhancing drugs for a longer time than he has
admitted, the people said.

The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they did not want to
be identified discussing a continuing investigation.

They said that the investigation began shortly after Rodriguez met with
investigators March 1 in Tampa, Fla., because they had questions about his
statements from that meeting. Rodriguez said he had used a substance called
boli from 2001 to 2003 and that his cousin obtained it in the Dominican
Republic. He said that he did not use performance-enhancing drugs after 2003.
He also said that he had never received substances from the trainer Angel
Presinal, who was barred from major league clubhouses in 2002 after he was
linked to steroids.


Questions about the truthfulness of Rodriguez’s statements were heightened
among baseball officials last week after details of a new book about
Rodriguez were reported by several news media outlets. The book, “A-Rod: The
Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez,” by Selena Roberts, asserts that Rodriguez
used several different steroids under the supervision of Presinal and had
human growth hormone in his possession when he played for the Yankees in 2004.
In 2005, the book also says, Rodriguez was mocked by teammates who suspected
that he was using drugs.


On Friday, an investigator asked Roberts if she would cooperate with
baseball’s inquiry. Roberts said she would not.


“I said that as a journalist, I cover M.L.B., and cooperating with them on
this would be a conflict of interest, and he said that he understood the
position that I am in,” Roberts, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and
a former reporter and columnist for The New York Times, said Saturday in a
telephone interview.

A lawyer for Rodriguez declined to comment.


Commissioner Bud Selig can discipline a player if he feels the player was not
forthcoming or truthful in a meeting with investigators. But pursuing whether
Rodriguez told the truth will be difficult for the investigators; unlike law
enforcement authorities, they have little power to compel a witness to speak
with them.

Many of the assertions in the book are based on anonymous sources. Others are
presented without an explanation of how the information was obtained. Any
discipline of Rodriguez would have to be strong enough to withstand an appeal
before an arbitrator.

In the book, Rodriguez is also said to have tipped off opposing batters to
what pitches were coming during blowouts while he was with the Texas Rangers;
and in return, they would tip pitches to him. It is not known if the
investigators are looking into whether Rodriguez violated the loyalty
provision of the player contract, which states that a player agrees to fair
play and good sportsmanship.(是怎樣? -_-)


Investigators can try to meet with former and current players, team officials
and even Rodriguez. M.L.B. has no power to compel former players to talk, and
it is unclear whether current players would discuss the actions of another
player.

“There is not a lot of precedence to this, and especially what Selig could
do if current players refuse to cooperate,” Gabriel Feldman, the director of
the sports law program at Tulane University Law School, said in a telephone
interview. “There is no specific language that requires players to cooperate
with an investigation, but Selig could try and discipline them, and the union
would likely appeal it.”

Feldman said it would be easier to persuade team officials, coaches or
employees to speak with the investigators because they were not protected by
the union.

Another possibility would be for the investigators to try to meet with
Rodriguez again to ask questions related to the book.

“A lot of this is Selig appearing like he has the situation under control,”
Feldman said. “The last thing he wants is for someone else, like the federal
government or Congress, to try and intercede and take this matter out of his
hands.”




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