Steroid News
News bot on steroids
On how much he knew about steroid’s prevalence during his playing days:
“I’ll be honest with you. It was a secret society. I had no idea. I think I was the one guy that when they were having that conversation they would stop quickly when I walked in the room. For many, many years I had a lot of teammates that were involved and I had no idea it was going, or the way it was going on. There were always rumblings about one or two guys, but to know the numbers that really came out, I was really, really shocked.”
On if he is at all resentful towards the players who did use steroids:
“I can’t hate guys for what they did. The money exploded in the nineties like they had never seen before. And it’s hard for anyone for their families not to do what is best for their family. Guys got to a weak point in their lives and did what they had to do. But I look back on it now and there are no grudges for me for anyone. I just wish I had known about it.”
On great players still making the decision to take PEDs so that other great players wouldn’t pass them by:
“We just saw great players become amazing players. Wow, I got to witness it, I got to play against it. It wasn’t just the hitters it was the pitchers also. I went from seeing guys paint around 91-92 MPH to it seemed like the whole staff throwing above 95. So the game definitely changed right before my eyes. But me being the hard worker, it was, ‘I got to work a little bit harder, these guys are catching up to me fast.’ I thank God I was blessed with the ability that I have and I’m happy to go home now and sleep very, very soundly every night not wondering if someone is going to call me to figure out what happened back in such and such and such, because I’m sure there are a lot of guys going home right now still worried.”
Read more: http://sportsradiointerviews.com/2011/06/03/frank-thomas-adam-dunn-steroids-era-mlb/
“I’ll be honest with you. It was a secret society. I had no idea. I think I was the one guy that when they were having that conversation they would stop quickly when I walked in the room. For many, many years I had a lot of teammates that were involved and I had no idea it was going, or the way it was going on. There were always rumblings about one or two guys, but to know the numbers that really came out, I was really, really shocked.”
On if he is at all resentful towards the players who did use steroids:
“I can’t hate guys for what they did. The money exploded in the nineties like they had never seen before. And it’s hard for anyone for their families not to do what is best for their family. Guys got to a weak point in their lives and did what they had to do. But I look back on it now and there are no grudges for me for anyone. I just wish I had known about it.”
On great players still making the decision to take PEDs so that other great players wouldn’t pass them by:
“We just saw great players become amazing players. Wow, I got to witness it, I got to play against it. It wasn’t just the hitters it was the pitchers also. I went from seeing guys paint around 91-92 MPH to it seemed like the whole staff throwing above 95. So the game definitely changed right before my eyes. But me being the hard worker, it was, ‘I got to work a little bit harder, these guys are catching up to me fast.’ I thank God I was blessed with the ability that I have and I’m happy to go home now and sleep very, very soundly every night not wondering if someone is going to call me to figure out what happened back in such and such and such, because I’m sure there are a lot of guys going home right now still worried.”
Read more: http://sportsradiointerviews.com/2011/06/03/frank-thomas-adam-dunn-steroids-era-mlb/
