Not now while Im still profitting from my cheating
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Report: Giambi says MLB owes apology for steroid issue
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<SMALL>MCLEAN, VIRGINIA (TICKER) </SMALL>-- Admitting he was wrong for "doing that stuff," New York Yankees slugger
Jason Giambi believes Major League Baseball should have apologized years ago for its widespread drug problem. Giambi told USA Today on Wednesday that an apology for the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball is long overdue. "I was wrong for doing that stuff," Giambi said to the newspaper before a game against the
Chicago White Sox. "What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said, 'We made a mistake.' We should have apologized back then and made sure we had a rule in place and gone forward.
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"Steroids and all of that was a part of history. But it was a topic that everybody wanted to avoid. Nobody wanted to talk about it."
The San Francisco Chronicle reported in December 2004 that Giambi told a grand jury that he had injected himself with human growth hormone during the 2003 season. Giambi publicly had denied taking performance-enhancing drugs, but his December 11, 2003 testimony contradicted those statements.
According to transcripts of testimony obtained by the Chronicle, Giambi told the grand jury he had used several kinds of steroids obtained from Greg Anderson, the personal trainer of
San Francisco Giants superstar
Barry Bonds.
That led Giambi to call a press conference in February 2005, in which he apologized but never addressed the reasons for the apology "due to legal issues."
Giambi is now thankful for MLB's revamped steroid and amphetamine testing program. Giambi also said he does not use HGH, although MLB does not test for the drug.
"Unfortunately, (the rumors) are going to be a part of it, but that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else," Giambi told USA Today. "I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball."
The 36-year-old Giambi declined to answer when asked why he took steroids.
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Maybe one day I'll talk about it, but not now," he said.
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