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April 18, 2008

Max [Canseco's Claimed PED Referral To A-Rod] Steps Forward

Via Sports Illustrated:

[Joseph] Dion said that Canseco is partially accurate in his portrayal of Max. Yes, Dion is a Canadian-born trainer who knew Canseco during his Toronto Blue Jays days. And it's true that Dion moved back to Miami, where he was raised, and was introduced to Rodriguez by Canseco in the late '90s. Dion said he worked with Rodriguez for four years when the current Yankee played for the Seattle Mariners.

But Dion adamantly denies Canseco's written account of Max as a "fan of steroids" who began working with Rodriguez specifically to juice the young phenom's body with illicit performance-enhancing drugs.

"That's really, really funny because I am the one person that hates steroids," Dion said. "I'm against it 100 percent. And, A-Rod, at the time that I trained him -- and this I swear to God -- was 100 percent against steroids. He was one of the hardest working guys, and most natural guy, that I've met in my life. He hated steroids. We talked about it."

This is the strange part for me - see the Daily News report on this matter:

[Alex] Rodriguez, in Baltimore for the Yankees' Friday night game with the Orioles, challenged Canseco's account for the first time. Canseco, he said, did not introduce him to Dion. He met him through Eddie Rodriguez, his mentor at a Miami Boys & Girls Club.

"He's a Christian man. A good man. Good man. Great man, actually," A-Rod said of Dion.

"I had no idea that he even knew the other guy (Canseco)."

Joseph Dion says that it was Canseco who set him up with Alex. But, A-Rod is saying that Eddie Rodriguez did it. This seems like an odd disconnect here. And, I suspect that we've not heard the last of this story.

Posted by Steve Lombardi at April 18, 2008 06:47 PM

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Posted by: Rich at April 18, 2008 11:04 PM