A Miami Clinic Supplies Drugs to Sports Biggest Names

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A Miami Clinic Supplies Drugs to Sports Biggest Names
Open the neat spreadsheet and scroll past the listing of local developers, prominent attorneys, and personal trainers. You'll find a lengthy list of nicknames: Mostro, Al Capone, El Cacique, Samurai, Yukon, Mohamad, Felix Cat, and D.R.

Then check out the main column, where their real names flash like an all-star roster of professional athletes with Miami ties: San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera, Oakland A's hurler Bartolo Colón, pro tennis player Wayne Odesnik, budding Cuban superstar boxer Yuriorkis Gamboa, and Texas Rangers slugger Nelson Cruz. There's even the New York Yankees' $275 million man himself, Alex Rodriguez, who has sworn he stopped juicing a decade ago.

Read further and you'll find more than a dozen other baseball pros, from former University of Miami ace Cesar Carrillo to Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal to Washington Nationals star Gio Gonzalez. Notable coaches are there too, including UM baseball conditioning guru Jimmy Goins.

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[JoshHodnik]

I wonder how these players will respond to this. That is a tough situation. I spoke with Victor Conte yesterday afternoon on the phone about something unrelated to this. We got into this subject after he told me the media was knocking on his door to talk to him about this. He said that he knew for quite some time that Bosch was under investigation by MLB and the DEA. How he knew this I have no idea. I don't understand why these players use these clinics. If or when they are raided, those customer lists will be taken and blasted all over the media.

 

[Millard]

I wonder how these players will respond to this. That is a tough situation. I spoke with Victor Conte yesterday afternoon on the phone about something unrelated to this. We got into this subject after he told me the media was knocking on his door to talk to him about this. He said that he knew for quite some time that Bosch was under investigation by MLB and the DEA. How he knew this I have no idea. I don't understand why these players use these clinics. If or when they are raided, those customer lists will be taken and blasted all over the media.

These players are asking to be caught. The Miami New Times articles portrays Tony Bosch who bragged incessantly about providing PEDs for his world-famous clients. I would categorize these players in the not-so-bright category. But what can a $300 million dollar man expect when he only pays the guy a few thousand dollars.

There must be more than a few doctors in the PED world of MLB where complete discretion is respected.

Even then, why would it be necessary to share a doctor with two dozen other pro players.

 

[cvictorg]

These players are asking to be caught. The Miami New Times articles portrays Tony Bosch who bragged incessantly about providing PEDs for his world-famous clients. I would categorize these players in the not-so-bright category. But what can a $300 million dollar man expect when he only pays the guy a few thousand dollars.

There must be more than a few doctors in the PED world of MLB where complete discretion is respected.

Even then, why would it be necessary to share a doctor with two dozen other pro players.

Report: Alex Rodriguez was personally injected by clinic chief

"New York Yankees All-Star Alex Rodriguez agreed to pay $12,000 monthly for the next four years to receive performance-enhancing drugs, according to the Miami New Times, and had been receiving injections from the director of a wellness clinic, according to ESPN.

Anthony Bosch, who operated the Biogenesis of America clinic in Coral Gables, Fla., personally injected Rodriguez with performance-enhancing drugs at his mansion on Biscayne Bay every few weeks, a source told ESPN."

Sources: Operator of Miami clinic linked to PEDs and MLB treated Yankees' Alex Rodriguez directly - ESPN

The texts, the source said, usually came late at night, telling Anthony Bosch to come to the house. Bosch would then head to the waterfront mansion on Biscayne Bay, through the gate on North Bay Road, to inject performance-enhancing drugs into Alex Rodriguez.

Procedures were different, though, sources told "Outside the Lines," for the other athletes who were customers of Bosch's Biogenesis of America clinic in Coral Gables, which Major League Baseball considers the center of a widespread doping operation in South Florida. Those athletes, sources said, relied on intermediaries to transport the performance-enhancing drug regimens Bosch provided.

But for A-Rod, the service was always personal: "Only Tony handled A-Rod," one source told "Outside the Lines."

The visits took place every few weeks. One night last spring, a source said, Bosch told associates he had been kicked out of Rodriguez's home after he had trouble locating a vein, infuriating the player. The sources did not say why Bosch would have been tapping a vein, as HGH and testosterone do not require intravenous injections. But whatever he was doing, "Tony said A-Rod was pissed at him," a source said. "He said he was bleeding everywhere."

Cabrera began receiving performance-enhancing drugs from Bosch since 2009, according to the Miami New Times.

Also, in an explosive letter obtained by the Miami New Times, Bosch claims Cabrera owes him $14,000 -- including a $5,000 bonus for making the All-Star team. Cabrera was named MVP of the game.

The letter was addressed to Juan Nunez, a consultant who worked for agents Sam and Seth Levinson of ACES. The Levinsons still are under investigation by MLB, but were cleared by the MLB Players Association.


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QUESTION - why would Alex get injections "every few weeks"?? HGH has to be injected EVERY DAY - this I do not understand.

 

[Malik Agar]

QUESTION - why would Alex get injections "every few weeks"?? HGH has to be injected EVERY DAY - this I do not understand.

Along with this:

One night last spring, a source said, Bosch told associates he had been kicked out of Rodriguez's home after he had trouble locating a vein, infuriating the player. The sources did not say why Bosch would have been tapping a vein, as HGH and testosterone do not require intravenous injections. But whatever he was doing, "Tony said A-Rod was pissed at him," a source said. "He said he was bleeding everywhere."

I was thinking maybe Bosch was doing blood draws for Rodriguez. If he was having RBC and hemacrit issues, and needed a monthly draw, it's not like A-rod could keep showing up at blood drives once a month without causing a stir.