Kirk Radomski, 38, who was a batboy and equipment manager with the New York Mets from 1985 to 1995, has pleaded guilty to distributing steroids and money laundering.

Radomski, the former Major League Baseball clubhouse attendant who sold steroids to dozens of players,

From Reuters.com:

“He is probably the most significant cooperator in the area of sports athletic doping,” prosecutor Matthew Parrella told the judge, explaining that the federal government was not seeking any jail time. “His extensive and immediate cooperation deserve recognition.”

Radomski has testified before former Sen. George Mitchell’s commission, which alleged widespread steroid use in Major League Baseball, and will appear before a congressional committee in Washington next week.

His lawyer said Radomski received anonymous threats by telephone after the Mitchell Report was released in December.

“I would like to apologize to the court, to my family, my friends for everything I have done,” said Radomski. “It hasn’t been easy on me or my family.”

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Retired first baseman David Segui has revealed that he experimented with anabolic steroids.

Segui said he bought shipments from his friend, former New York Mets clubhouse attendant and admitted drug distributor Kirk Radomski.

From Baltimoresun.com:

But Segui told The Sun that he declined to talk to former Sen. George Mitchell because he didn’t want to betray the trust of other ballplayers or be caught in a game of speculation about what former teammates or opponents did or didn’t do. He also didn’t want people wondering what information might have came from him.

“I have nothing to hide. I have no problem talking about what I have done,” said Segui, who spent eight of his 15 big league seasons with the Orioles. “But I never want any other players to think I was out there talking about their business. Because I do know a lot, but people have told me things in confidence and I don’t want to be spreading that.”

He said investigators contacted him “numerous times” through his financial adviser and he once spoke briefly by phone with Mitchell to decline the invitation.

The retired baseman also said he used human growth hormone with a legal prescription from a Florida doctor.

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Lenny Dykstra has earned the nickname “Nails” for his rugged play but there will be another five-letter word associated with this sportsman from now on, Juice.

Dykstra, who won a World Series title and was a three-time All-Star as an outfielder during 12 major league seasons, admit to using steroids in a new book.

From Content.usatoday.com:

Here’s what Dykstra said, according to an excerpt of Randall Lane’s book, The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane, published on the website, The Daily Beast:

“You know, I was like a pioneer for that stuff. … The juice. I was like the very first to do that. Me and (Jose) Canseco.”

The statement confirms what was suggested in Major League Baseball’s Mitchell Report, released in 2007. According to the Mitchell Report, Dykstra, now 47, admitted to former Mets clubhouse employee Kirk Radomski in 1989 that he had used steroids.

Canseco, who hit 462 career home runs, admitted to using steroids in 2005.

“At first it wasn’t even illegal,” Dykstra said, according’ to Lane’s book. “Then, after a few years, I had to go to a doctor, and get a prescription. You know how I got my stuff? Just walking into a pharmacy, bro. It was as simple as that.”

Dykstra said he used steroids to protect his place in the team, stay ahead of the competition, and take care of his family.

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David Justice, the former Braves slugger, has vehemently denied making use of injected steroids and remarked that he has his fear of needles.

This statement by Justice was in wake of remarks by Kirk Radomski before George Mitchell that he sold human growth hormone to Justice. The revelation was made when Mitchell was in charge of the investigation about use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball.

From AJC.com:

Now consider this: Radomski has a recently published book on steroids and baseball. It’s a book with large passages disputed by Mitchell. Which means it’s wise to question anything leaving Radomski’s lips.

“When he said he took me to the airport after we won the World Series, hey, I got my cousins, I got friends who were up there with me, and they all said, ‘That dude didn’t take you to no airport,’ ” said Justice, who did recall Brian McNamee, the former trainer, now famous for saying Roger Clemens was juiced.

Soon after Justice joined the Yankees in 2000, McNamee approached him with HGH. He told the outfielder it would help his various aches and pains.

“I’m having good days and bad days with my sports hernia and groin, and I’ve got the New York Yankees strength coach, who is Dr. McNamee and somebody I thought was a really cool guy, coming to me,” Justice said. “He tells me, ‘This is not steroids. It will not hurt your body. Doctors prescribe this every day. It will help you with the healing of your groin.’

A box of HGH was given to Justice during an airport ride, Radomski told ESPN. The box was given after Justice finished playing for the New York Yankees in the 2000 World Series.

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Longtime clubhouse manager of the Mets, Charlie Samuels, has been suspended after the team was notified of his association with a law-enforcement investigation into illegal gambling. This finding was disclosed by a lawyer briefed on the matter and a law-enforcement official.

The lawyer said that gambling is believed to be tied to football.

From bats.blogs.nytimes.com:

The revelation about Samuels is the second in six years that a Mets employee has been tied to a law-enforcement investigation into gambling. In 2005, a supervisor of groundskeepers for the Mets was indicted by the Queens district attorney on charges tied to his involvement as a bookmaker in a gambling ring. The supervisor, Dominic Valila, pleaded guilty to promoting gambling in the first degree. He was dismissed.

Kirk Radomski, the former Mets clubhouse attendant who provided federal investigators with the names of dozens of players to whom he sold steroids and human growth hormone, said in his 2009 book, “Bases Loaded,” that Samuels hired him in 1985.

Radomski worked for the Mets until 1995 and pleaded guilty in 2007 to selling performance-enhancing drugs. His information became the centerpiece of the Mitchell report, which linked dozens of current and former players to the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

The Mets said in a statement that Samuels had been suspended indefinitely without pay.

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Kirk Radomski, the confessed drug supplier, has provided documentary evidence that he shipped drugs to Roger Clemens.

Clemens is presently facing perjury investigations after communicating to the Congress that he had never used steroids or performance enhancing drugs.

From Espnstar.com:

Citing unnamed sources, the Daily News reports the package was addressed to William Roger Clemens, in care of Brian McNamee, who apparently did not sign for the package.

“I can’t imagine that there’s any truth to that at all,” Clemens’ lawyer Rusty Hardin told the newspaper. “We’ll find out one day Roger never received or took the stuff.”

The timing of the shipment to Clemens’ home is apparently around the same time that his wife, Debbie, used HGH in preparation for her pictorial in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

A seven-time Cy Young Award winner, the 45-year-old Clemens denied under oath using human growth hormone or having any prior knowledge that his wife was going to use HGH.

It was disclosed in the report that Radomski discovered shipping receipts for a package of two HGH kits sent to Clemens at house of the pitcher in Houston in 2002 or 2003.

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The former Braves slugger, David Justice, has denied use of injected steroids and disclosed that he has his fear of needles.

This was after Kirk Radomski told George Mitchell that he sold human growth hormone to Justice; this revelation was made when Mitchell was in charge of the investigation about use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball.

From AJC.com:

Now consider this: Radomski has a recently published book on steroids and baseball. It’s a book with large passages disputed by Mitchell. Which means it’s wise to question anything leaving Radomski’s lips.

“When he said he took me to the airport after we won the World Series, hey, I got my cousins, I got friends who were up there with me, and they all said, ‘That dude didn’t take you to no airport,’ ” said Justice, who did recall Brian McNamee, the former trainer, now famous for saying Roger Clemens was juiced.

Soon after Justice joined the Yankees in 2000, McNamee approached him with HGH. He told the outfielder it would help his various aches and pains.

“I’m having good days and bad days with my sports hernia and groin, and I’ve got the New York Yankees strength coach, who is Dr. McNamee and somebody I thought was a really cool guy, coming to me,” Justice said. “He tells me, ‘This is not steroids. It will not hurt your body. Doctors prescribe this every day. It will help you with the healing of your groin.’

Radomski told ESPN that a box of steroids and HGH were given to Justice during a ride to the airport after the former Braves slugger finished playing for the New York Yankees in the 2000 World Series.

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In a questionable manner, David Wright, the face of the Mets franchise, signed Gary Sheffield, the player who has past steroid links. The decision was made after giving appropriate time to the thought by Wright. Sheffield said about the Mets, “It’s been a lifelong thing for me. I wanted to fulfill my dream. I have a chance to win a championship here. If it comes to me coming off the bench, I’ll do that.”

It is reasonable from the player to join the franchise, but what is clicking in the mind is that why would the Mets want to enroll this player after knowing all the steroid gossips that have troubled him? Just because it was a no-lose move for Mets as they were only one who were paying Sheffield $400,000 and could cut him more easily than the infield grass.

But, one thing is sure if the reason is only this, the team could lose a great deal. Jerry Manuel spoke frankly before the game about how he isn’t worried about nursing along Daniel Murphy or Fernando Tatis. He said, “I’m not trying to develop or evolve. I’m trying to win a championship.”

From The Daily News:

It is perfectly reasonable that Sheffield decided to enroll in Flushing. The real question is: Why would the Mets want this guy after all the steroid rumors that have haunted him and this particular franchise? Why flirt with more bad headlines and drug disclosures, when the guy batted .225 last season for a team that dumped him?

As you move this spring from the Bronx to Queens, from the new Yankee Stadium to Citi Field, you go from oppressive, monolithic architecture to quirky nooks and crannies. You go from gray concrete to red brick.

The Mets have done this a whole lot better. Their place is now a happy, cozy joint, waiting to make baseball memories.

But of course, those memories can always turn out to be really, really bad. That’s where we get to Sheffield, who is bound to make noise of one variety or another.

This is supposed to be a no-lose move, because the Mets are only paying Sheffield $400,000 and can cut him more easily than they mow the infield grass. Except that it isn’t. The Mets can lose a great deal. They can mess with the chemistry of this still-young team, and revisit dark places where only the Mitchell Report has gone before.

Sheffield behaved in a proper way and knocked some bunch of runs then also the situtation remained the same as the real problem was in signing the player. Mets was once home to Kirk Radomski and signed Guillermo Mota to a two-year, back-loaded deal so that he would not suffer in monetary way due to 50-game drug suspension penalty.

Now the Mets have signed Sheffield, a player whose past links with performance-enhancing drugs are still a doubtful question. He himself had admitted the usage of a steroid cream in 2001 and was later named in the Mitchell Report as the steroid user. With all these mess ups, it would definitely not surprise anybody if Sheffield’s name was there in the list of positive tests from 2003 that could be leaked anytime.

Being a family-friendly franchise, the Mets have always tried to eliminate itself from any kind of potential embarrassment. But what appears to be questionable is that whether signing of Anna Benson’s Santa is more disgusting than the player, who himself has confirmed the acceptance of using a designer steroid, but without knowing what it was?

For the moment, however, the Mets could at least make the appearance that they are trying to implement the right ideology when it comes to battling the curse of steroids. By signing Sheffield, the team become the only one team that has signed the player after fully knowing his tainted past.

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Just this week, Andrew Michael Bogdan revealed the story behind how he found out about steroid use in the Major Leagues. Bogdan was the FBI informant that led the agents to Kirk Radomski. Although indirectly, he played an important role in the formation of the Mitchell Report. Bogdan helped the FBI in exchange for some leniency in his real estate fraud case.

From The Baltimore Sun

In an exclusive interview with The Baltimore Sun yesterday, Andrew Michael “Mike” Bogdan admitted to helping the FBI in a real-estate fraud case as part of a plea agreement. But he said he did not use his close friendship with former Orioles outfielder Larry Bigbie to assist the FBI in nabbing one of baseball’s primary steroid distributors.

“It sounds like Mike Bogdan single-handedly was bringing down Major League Baseball,” said Bogdan, while sitting in his rowhome in the Eastwood area of Dundalk. “I just had the pleasure of being friends with Larry Bigbie.”

Larry Bigbie used to be a talented player of the Baltimore Orioles and of the St. Louis Cardinals. He was one of the young stars with lots of talent that even Ray King was traded in for him. Unfortunately, Bigbie always got stuck in the bench because of one injury or another. Back in his Orioles days, there was a locker room “hang-outer” also known as Mike Bogdan. Bogdan was a cool guy so he easily befriended the athletes. What they didn’t know was that even at that time, Bogdan was already working for the FBI. He was charged for real estate fraud but instead of serving his time in jail, he volunteered to be an informant to track down steroid dealers. It was easy to do so especially when he manages to befriend Bigbie. Bigbie eventually admitted to Bogdan that he took anabolic steroids and HGH. Bogdan ratted him out to the feds and even took a used syringed from his trash to serve as proof. This soon led to Radomski who had supplied Bigbie with the performance enhancing drugs. And so, Bigbie was soon forgotten and the Mitchell Report was born.

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Just recently, the man that led the FBI to anabolic steroids dealer Kirk Radomski has been revealed. He is actually one of the targets of  other FBI investigations involving real estate fraud. Andrew Michael Bogdan was the FBI lead who, according to Jeff Novitzky, has been acquainted with several athletes within the Major Leagues. For some time, the FBI depended on Bogdan to lead them to Radomski and this eventually led to the conviction of the steroid dealer. Radomski’s arrest was important especially to the Mitchell Report which served as a basis of charges against baseball athletes who had allegedly used performance enhancing drugs.

From The New York Times:

The identity of the man, Andrew Michael Bogdan, was first reported on The Smoking Gun Web site and independently confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of the case who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Reached by telephone Wednesday, Bogdan said many aspects of the Web site’s story were either incorrect or taken out of context. He would not say whether he helped federal agents in their investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs by baseball players but later said: “I know nothing about that, that’s the funny thing. I know nothing about the steroids stuff.”

He added, “I’ve had friends who were ballplayers, and that’s the extent of it.”

Bogdan’s lawyer, Richard Karceski, did not return calls or an e-mail message Wednesday. Barbara Sale, the assistant United States attorney who prosecuted Bogdan’s criminal case, declined to comment in an e-mail message.

Bogdan was charged with fraud in a real estate flipping scheme to which he pleaded guilty in 2001. He was then under probation for 5 years and was asked to pay a sum more than $277,000 for restitution.

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