http://tinyurl.com/bcfxtox When the initial, explosive, Miami New Times' report on the Coral Gables, Florida-based Biogenesis clinic was first published, Washington Nationals' lefty Gio Gonzalez's name was one of several mentioned as having a connection to the anti-aging clinic and its chief, Anthony Bosch, whose personal, hand-written notebooks contained the names of at least seven major league players who allegedly received performance-enhancing drugs. The 27-year-old Nats' starter took to Twitter to deny the allegations made in the article. "I've never used performance enhancing drugs of any kind and I never will," Gonzalez wrote, "I've never met or spoken with [Tony] Bosch or used any substance provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie." As noted in the investigative piece, however, Gonzalez's father had visited the clinic seeking weight loss advice. Max Gonzalez denied his son had any involvement with the clinic. Gonzalez next talked about the situation when he arrived at Spring Training a week ago today. Asked if he thought he would eventually be cleared of any wrongdoing, the former Oakland A's starter who won 21 games for the NL East champion Nationals in his first year in Washington, D.C. in 2012, told reporters at the time he was sure MLB's investigation would prove he was telling the truth. "I feel very confident," Gonzalez said, "I think that at the end of the day, I've never taken performance-enhancing drugs and I never will. So, I'm actually pretty excited about this year." Though his name appeared five times in the notebooks of the clinic's chief, Mr. Bosch, Gonzalez maintained that the only thing tying him to the clinic was his father. Gonzalez said he didn't know that his father had gone to the clinic and he had no idea what the "pink cream" mentioned on a page with his name on it was and had never used it. As things stood a week ago, Gonzalez was just waiting for MLB to complete its investigation into the Miami New Times' report. "What's happening now," Gonzalez said, "is that I've cooperated with MLB and I've done everything they want and I feel strong with their program and what they're doing and at the end of the day, it's waiting on them." An ESPN.com report tonight supports Gonzalez's claims. ESPN's investigative reporters Mike Fish and T.J. Quinn added five names to the list of players connected to the clinic, but Gonzalez, they wrote, never received any PEDs from the Biogenesis clinic: "According to two sources familiar with Bosch's operation, however, the Washington Nationals' Gio Gonzalez, previously identified as being named in Biogenesis documents, did not receive banned substances from Bosch or the clinic." The writer's sources "speaking independently" said Gonzalez was, "... the only Bosch client named thus far who did not receive performance-enhancing drugs." A "document" described as a 'computer printout" obtained by "Outside the Lines" showed that Gonzalez had received "$1,000 worth of substances," none of them banned by Major League Baseball: "[Gonzalez] is said to have received $1,000 worth of substances, but under 'notes' are several substances not banned by Major League Baseball: 'gluthetyn' (which a source said was a misspelling of glutathione), 'IM [intramuscular] shots,' and amino acids. "Glutathione is an anti-oxidant, and one source said the 'IM shots' Gonzalez received were 'MICs,' a medically dubious but legal combination of methionine, inositol and choline, often used for weight loss." "BOTH PEOPLE SAID COMPLETELY INDEPENDENTLY OF EACH OTHER THAT NO, GIO IS THE ONE GUY WHO DIDN'T GET SOMETHING AND BECAUSE THEY PULLED HIS NAME OUT SPECIFICALLY WE LOOKED INTO IT." - ESPN'S T.J. QUINN ON GIO GONZALEZ "It's an unusual thing to be reporting. But out of all these names," T.J. Quinn, said in an interview included with the ESPN report, "We've spoken to a number of different sources with this and we also saw documents that back up that claim. Both people said completely independently of each other that no, Gio is the one guy who didn't get something and because they pulled his name out specifically we looked into it. There's a document that says he got $1,000 of worth of something, but the different substances that were listed next to his name were not banned drugs. They were amino acids, anti-oxidants, things like that. Things that he probably could have gotten easily from some sort of GNC or any other legitimate source." Though Mr. Quinn cautioned that "nothing is definitive based on these documents," he said, "What they said was, 'No, he didn't get drugs.' That his father actually got some weight loss drugs. But we felt it was worth reporting." ---------- Gio看來沒事了 --

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