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Mientkiewicz refutes A-Rod allegations
[SIZE=-1]MLB.com[SIZE=-1] - Rhett Bollinger[/SIZE][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Recent accounts from excerpts in an upcoming book that Alex Rodriguez may have turned to steroids in high school were refuted Thursday by Dodgers utilityman Doug Mientkiewicz, who was a teammate of Rodriguez's at Westminster Christian High in Miami. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"There's no way," Mientkiewicz told Yahoo! Sports. "I was with him too much, I was with him for too long. Our team was together, like, 20 hours of the day. Every day." [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Claims that Rodriguez was a possible steroid user as early as high school made headlines on Thursday when the New York Daily News reported that Selena Roberts' book, "A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez," describes Rodriguez as having put on 25 pounds of muscle between his sophomore and junior years at Westminster High School. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"He also grew two or three inches," Mientkiewicz said. "You're talking about a 15-year-old kid who looked really skinny and scrawny. Then he hit puberty and he grew into a man. Everybody goes through it. So now every 13-to-15-year-old kid is going to be accused of this, because he hits puberty?" [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I understand the book is coming out and all," Mientkiewicz said. "Now we're going to go back to what he did in high school? You weren't there. He was with me in high school. In high school he was more dedicated than anybody I'd ever seen. Can we move forward please?" [/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]MLB.com[SIZE=-1] - Rhett Bollinger[/SIZE][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Recent accounts from excerpts in an upcoming book that Alex Rodriguez may have turned to steroids in high school were refuted Thursday by Dodgers utilityman Doug Mientkiewicz, who was a teammate of Rodriguez's at Westminster Christian High in Miami. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"There's no way," Mientkiewicz told Yahoo! Sports. "I was with him too much, I was with him for too long. Our team was together, like, 20 hours of the day. Every day." [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Claims that Rodriguez was a possible steroid user as early as high school made headlines on Thursday when the New York Daily News reported that Selena Roberts' book, "A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez," describes Rodriguez as having put on 25 pounds of muscle between his sophomore and junior years at Westminster High School. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"He also grew two or three inches," Mientkiewicz said. "You're talking about a 15-year-old kid who looked really skinny and scrawny. Then he hit puberty and he grew into a man. Everybody goes through it. So now every 13-to-15-year-old kid is going to be accused of this, because he hits puberty?" [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I understand the book is coming out and all," Mientkiewicz said. "Now we're going to go back to what he did in high school? You weren't there. He was with me in high school. In high school he was more dedicated than anybody I'd ever seen. Can we move forward please?" [/SIZE]
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