John Rocker: MLB Doctors Advised How to Use Steroids Safely

Most of the conversation about John Rocker's recent radio interviews have centered on his comments about Bud Selig, and in particular, Rocker's advice that the commish "do the world a favor and kill himself." Rocker doesn't appreciate Selig's attempts to portray himself as being unaware about baseball's steroid problem, claiming Selig was aware Rocker flunked a steroid test and did nothing about it. (Rocker fails to mention how MLB's CBA with the player's association didn't allow Selig to do anything at the time, but whatever ...)

But while the comments above received most of the attention yesterday, I think the bigger bombshell should be the fact that Rocker claims he actually received advice about how to "safely" do steroids at a Rangers' spring training session. From the AP:

Rocker said that doctors from management and the players' association, following a spring training talk with the Texas Rangers about steroids and other topics, pulled himself, A-Rod, Rafael Palmeiro and Ivan Rodriguez aside. Rocker was with the Rangers in 2002.

"Look guys, if you take one kind of steroid, you don't triple stack them and take them 10 months out of the year like Lyle Alzado did," Rocker said the doctors told them. "If you do it responsibly, it's not going to hurt you."

Rocker didn't name the doctors, but it certainly sounds like they were under the employment of either MLB or the player's association, doesn't it? If true, this definitely widens the scope of responsibility for the steroid problem from solely players and rogue trainers to include the actual league itself. If Congress insists on a dog-and-pony show involving Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens, why can't they also force Rocker, A-Rod and Pudge in to testify?