It was one of the most infamous moments of the Steroid Era in baseball. Rafael Palmeiro pointing at Congress at telling them he'd never taken steroids. Then he tested positive for steroids. Whoops.
Well, Palmeiro is still denying that he knowingly took steroids to this day.
"I made a mistake," Palmeiro told ESPN's Pedro Gomez on Friday. "I didn't really understand what I was taking and I paid for it. I paid for it very dearly. Life goes on.
"I've heard a lot of things out there that are wrong. People saying I took drugs all my life, I've never touched anything. I worked my butt off my whole career, as a kid, in college, the big leagues, I didn't need anything, I didn't have to cheat at the end of my career, for what? What was I going to gain from it? Whatever I took was tainted, had to have been. There's no other reason unless I got set up.
"What I took was a B-12 [vitamin] that was given to me by a teammate. That's it. That was it."
Only problem is that if you didn't know what B-12 was code for in baseball, then you had to be a complete idiot. But who knows, is Plameiro telling the truth? Also, watch the video contained in the link, dude looks freakin' old and stressed out. Maybe he's like the poor man's Pete Rose, trying to get into the Hall of Fame.
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