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ESPN interview with McGwire’s steroid dealer
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Curtis Wenzlaff, a convicted steroids dealer who says he supplied Mark McGwire as early as the late 1980s, is speaking for the first time since McGwire’s recent admission that he used steroids during his playing career, told ESPN Outside the Lines reporter T.J. Quinn that McGwire’s goal was to improve his performance on the field. McGwire, hired by the Cardinals as hitting coach, said only used the drugs to stay healthy.
A few excerpts from the interview and a link to video of part of the interview, some of which will be shown on Sports Center today and on Sunday’s Outside the Lines.
T.J. Quinn: “Would it help you hit a baseball?”
Curt Wenzlaff: “Will it help you hit a baseball? Let me put it to you this way. If Paris Hilton was to take that array, she could run over Dick Butkus.”
TJ: “Mark McGwire, last week when he finally admitted that he did use steroids, said he used a little bit for health reasons, to keep himself healthy. What did you think when he said that?”
CW: “I chuckled. Let me put it this way. If excelling and kicking **bleep** on the field is the end result I guess that’s a healthy, good feeling. But for health, there are other things you can take for health that are anabolic, but it wouldn’t be that type of combination.”
TJ: “What was his goal to take an array like this?”
CW: “As anybody — bigger, faster, stronger.”