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A-Rod is expected to meet with Federal investigators today to discuss his relationship with Dr. Anthony Galea. Joel Sherman chimes in with the details on what Alex is planning to tell them:
A-Rod associates say there is nothing to worry about. This is about Galea, who is dealing with drug charges in his native Canada and an FBI investigation in the States involving illegal performance enhancers.
A-Rod is expected to tell investigators he was directed to Galea by chiropractor Mark Lindsay, who was authorized to work with Rodriguez by Dr. Marc Philippon, who performed hip surgery on A-Rod on March 9, 2009.
Rodriguez, The Post has learned, will claim he received five sessions of platelet replacement therapy, which he feels greatly accelerated his healing process and enabled him to get back to the majors by early May.
Rodriguez is planning to insist he had no prior relationship with Galea and never received any illegal drugs such as HGH. Instead, just like Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes, Tiger Woods and many other top athletes in a myriad of sports, he went to Galea because of the doctor’s reputation for the platelet replacement treatment, which is legal.
My goodness, this is shocking stuff. We had no idea until this moment that there was a legitimate connection between Galea and Lindsay, or that Galea had a reputation for another sort of treatment plan other than injecting HGH. Oh, wait, we most certainly did:
To be clear, Dr. Lindsay and Galea worked together, and Lindsay was the doctor whom the Yankees and surgeon Dr. Marc Phillipon approved to take care of A-Rod’s rehab. Furthermore, Lindsay himself is apparently not approved to write prescriptions in the US, and needed someone such as Galea to deal with anything that required a scrip. As such, the perception that A-Rod went looking in the seedy underbelly of the medical world for treatment is silly and unfounded. He almost certainly was referred to Galea by Lindsay, who was the doctor in charge of the medical treatment related to his hip. While it may have been stupid of Alex to go to a doctor that was not directly approved by the Yankees, that does not mean that he went to Galea to get HGH.
That is what I wrote two weeks ago. Unless the investigators stumble upon some evidence that Alex was given HGH, it seems fairly clear that this story is a non-issue. As Alex has stated all along, this is about somebody else that he knew who happened to have committed a crime. While Alex probably should have gone to the Yankees to get Galea approved, all he is guilty of for that failing is stupidity. Do you think Alex will get an apology from Ian O’Connor?
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6 Responses to A-Rod To Tell Investigators What Many Of Us Already Know
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You should read this:
http://itsaboutthemoney.net/archives/2010/03/08/i-wish-this-passed-the-sniff-test/
I have read it, it is inaccurate. I love Jason, but he wrote that post, then I informed him of the legit connection, and he added it to the post and maintained the conclusion that it didn’t pass the sniff test without providing reasons. There is a perfectly legit reason A-rod went to Galea, as I outlined above.
I’ll be more than happy to write my apology to ARod if it comes out all he went there for was anti-inflammatory injections and 5 blood spinning “whatevertheyarecalled” techniques. (Just remind me if I forget, ok?)
It just doesn’t quite pass my sniff test yet. Once you admit multiple years of PED use, you lose that benefit of the doubt.
All that said, you’re doing a kickass job here, Moshe!
Thanks, Jason. Listen, I get that you don’t quite trust him, and I respect that opinion. I just think that the facts as we know them point towards the obvious Lindsay-Galea connection being the right one. And if it comes out that he got HGH, I’ll apologize to those who will have been right all along like yourself.(I might need a reminder and a nudge).
I love A-rod and all and he is my favorite player but it’s just that, Why cant he just make the best decisions and the right ones??
Its a wrong decision to follow the suggestions of your Yankee-approved chiropractor (Lindsay)? A-Rod may not get the benefit of the doubt (and he’s to blame for that) but that doesn’t mean every sinister speculation is true.
And I’m still waiting for the mountain of evidence that proves Dr. Galea is evil. I’ll wait for it instead of swallowing every detail the government leaks for its own benefit. Every case looks bad for the accused when the defense isn’t hammering at the evidence like it would in court.