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  • moneyman255
    Noob
    • May 2011
    • 374

    Biogenesis Thread: Founder turns himself in

    Open the neat spreadsheet and scroll past the listing of local developers, prominent attorneys, and personal trainers. You'll find a lengthy list of nicknames: Mostro, Al Capone, El Cacique, Samurai, Yukon, Mohamad, Felix Cat, and D.R.

    Then check out the main column, where their real names flash like an all-star roster of professional athletes with Miami ties: San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera, Oakland A's hurler Bartolo Colón, pro tennis player Wayne Odesnik, budding Cuban superstar boxer Yuriorkis Gamboa, and Texas Rangers slugger Nelson Cruz. There's even the New York Yankees' $275 million man himself, Alex Rodriguez, who has sworn he stopped juicing a decade ago.


    Anthony Bosch
    Miami-Dade Police Department

    Anthony Bosch

    Handwritten client lists from Biogenesis.

    Handwritten client lists from Biogenesis.



    Read further and you'll find more than a dozen other baseball pros, from former University of Miami ace Cesar Carrillo to Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal to Washington Nationals star Gio Gonzalez. Notable coaches are there too, including UM baseball conditioning guru Jimmy Goins

    The names are all included in an extraordinary batch of records from Biogenesis, an anti-aging clinic tucked into a two-story office building just a hard line drive's distance from the UM campus. They were given to New Times by an employee who worked at Biogenesis before it closed last month and its owner abruptly disappeared. The records are clear in describing the firm's real business: selling performance-enhancing drugs, from human growth hormone (HGH) to testosterone to anabolic steroids.
    In total there are 14 players in MLB right now that they supplied to. Biggest names are Gio, Cruz, A-Rod, and Melkey Cabrera.

    MLB is looking into this and considering suspensions.

    Link: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2013-01...biggest-names/
  • jms493
    Junior Member
    • Feb 2009
    • 11248

    #2
    Just make this shit legal.......I am so tired of hearing/reading about it.

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    • EmpireWF
      Giants in the Super Bowl
      • Mar 2009
      • 24082

      #3


      So if this checks out, Cabrera & A-Rod are canned for 100 games, correct?

      But, A-Rod's already hurt and planning to miss a majority of the season anyway.

      EDIT..No, A-Rod was never suspended for his admission years ago. The players at risk of missing 100 games are Cabrera, Grandal and Colon.

      And you have to be one thick piece of work to keep plain english records like this....



      So stupid.


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      • SuperKevin
        War Hero
        • Dec 2009
        • 8759

        #4
        NO!!!!!! Not Gio

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        • Youk
          Posts too much
          • Feb 2009
          • 7998

          #5
          Just another story about it. Trying to hide my hatred of ARod, aka my excitement to see him on here.

          Records from an anti-aging clinic in Miami list the names of baseball players -- including Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera and Gio Gonzalez -- and detail PEDs administered to them and others, according to a report by Miami New Times.


          Records from an anti-aging clinic in Miami list the names of prominent baseball players -- including Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera and Gio Gonzalez -- and detail performance-enhancing drugs administered to them and others, according to a report Tuesday by the Miami New Times.

          The names were on records Miami New Times said were given to them by an employee who worked at Biogenesis of America before it closed last month. Miami New Times reported that the records show the firm sold performance-enhancing drugs, including human growth hormone, testosterone and anabolic steroids.

          Anthony Bosch, the 49-year-old head of the clinic, was connected to Manny Ramirez when the former MLB star was suspended for 50 games for violating baseball's drug policy in 2009. Bosch has never been charged by local or federal officials.

          Miami New Times said it conducted a three-month investigation before releasing its 5,400-word story online on Tuesday.

          Saturday, ESPN's Outside The Lines reported that Major League Baseball was investigating multiple wellness clinics in South Florida, as well as individuals with potential ties to players. The report said that the area from Boca Raton to Miami is "ground zero" for performance-enhancing drugs still filtering into the game.

          Rodriguez, the New York Yankees slugger who ended 2012 injured and on the bench during the playoffs, has admitted to using steroids from 2001-03, but he has said he has not used PEDs since. The New Times report said that Rodriguez's name shows up 16 times in the records it reviewed. One record, which the newspaper reported was part of Bosch's private notebooks, indicated Rodriguez paid Bosch $3,500 for "1.5/1.5 HGH (sports perf.), creams test., glut., MIC, supplement, sports perf. Diet." HGH is banned by MLB.

          There are other notations for Rodriguez as well, beginning in 2009 and continuing through last season. The New Times reports that other drugs listed for Rodriguez include IGF-1, a banned substance that stimulates insulin production and muscle growth, GHRP, a substance that releases growth hormones and testosterone creams.

          Rodriguez had hip surgery last month and is expected to miss some or all of the 2013 season.

          Miami New Times reported that Cabrera, who signed a $16 million free agent contract with the Toronto Blue Jays during the offseason, is mentioned 14 times in the report. He was suspended last August for violating baseball's performance enhancing drugs policy while a member of the San Francisco Giants. The paper cited entries last April indicating Cabrera "has enough meds until May 4" and indicating what the paper terms a "cocktail of drugs including IGF-1."

          According to the report, Bosch openly bragged of supplying drugs to Rodriguez.

          Nelson Cruz of the Texas Rangers is listed on a July 2012 record, with a notation from Bosch that "need to call him, go Thur. to Texas, take meds from April 5-May 5, will owe him troches and&and will infuse them in May." Troches, according to Bosch's notes, are a type of drug lozenge which Miami New Times said includes testosterone.
          The Rangers issued a statement Tuesday, saying: "The Texas Rangers were contacted late last week by Miami New Times regarding the story posted this morning. At that time, the Rangers contacted Major League Baseball on that inquiry. The team has no further comment."


          Gio Gonzalez, the Washington Nationals left-hander who led the league with 21 wins last season and was third in Cy Young voting, appears five times, including one charge for $1,000.

          His father also appears, but he told Miami New Times that he was there to lose weight and that his son is "as clean as apple pie."

          "And if I knew he was doing these things with steroids, do you think I'd be dumb enough to go there?" he said, according to the New Times.

          Pitcher Bartolo Colon was suspended last season for violating baseball's performance-enhancing drug rules. Bosch, in his notes, says Colon's monthly fee was $3,000, according to Miami New Times.

          Other names listed in the records obtained by Miami New Times include Cesar Carrillo, a former University of Miami pitcher, Jimmy Goins, the strength and conditioning coach at Miami for nine seasons, Cuban boxer Yuriorkis Gamboa and professional tennis player Wayne Odesnik, who was banned from tennis for two years in 2010 for allegedly trying to bring HGH into Australia.

          The New Times reported that it sent detailed letters to all of the people to be named in its story asking for comment, but none responded.

          On Jan. 27, Bosch told the New Times: "I can't really say anything to you," and added that his attorney would be in touch.

          According to the report, the former secretary for Biogenesis said there shouldn't be any question as to what athletes were looking for from Bosch.

          "He sold HGH and steroids," the person said, according to the New Times. "Everyone who worked there knew that was what our business was."

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          • SuperKevin
            War Hero
            • Dec 2009
            • 8759

            #6
            Not trying to go all Gooby and turn a blind eye because one of my favorite players is involved but I do know from experience that these Florida clinics do a variety of treatments and Gio's dad's story could easily check out. The clinic I went to in Tampa offered painkillers and steroids like candy but they also did accupuncture, weight loss, and joint pain management.

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            • FedEx227
              Delivers
              • Mar 2009
              • 10454

              #7
              Oh man homers defending their favorite players being on PEDs. This is always a blast.
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              • Youk
                Posts too much
                • Feb 2009
                • 7998

                #8
                Originally posted by SuperKevin
                Not trying to go all Gooby and turn a blind eye because one of my favorite players is involved but I do know from experience that these Florida clinics do a variety of treatments and Gio's dad's story could easily check out. The clinic I went to in Tampa offered painkillers and steroids like candy but they also did accupuncture, weight loss, and joint pain management.


                I do see what you're saying. They came out and said that ARod's name had HGH, etc. next to the payments, but didn't mention anything next to Gio's name. If there was something big, it would have been said. I'll wait to see to pass judgement on him, but Arod...lol.

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                • SuperKevin
                  War Hero
                  • Dec 2009
                  • 8759

                  #9
                  Originally posted by FedEx227
                  Oh man homers defending their favorite players being on PEDs. This is always a blast.
                  Hey I said I wasn't doing that

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                  • ThomasTomasz
                    • Nov 2024

                    #10
                    Originally posted by FedEx227
                    Oh man homers defending their favorite players being on PEDs. This is always a blast.
                    One of my favorites was Brady Anderson, but I still can't wrap my mind around the 50 homer season. Something fishy happened, that power just doesn't appear out of nowhere. Jose Bautista is close, but most people knew he had the power, it just didn't show until he finally got substantial playing time instead of platoon/bench work.

                    Alex Rodriguez though........if it's true, what does this do for his HOF candidacy and place in the history of the game?

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                    • Youk
                      Posts too much
                      • Feb 2009
                      • 7998

                      #11
                      Originally posted by ThomasTomasz
                      Alex Rodriguez though........if it's true, what does this do for his HOF candidacy and place in the history of the game?
                      Hall of Fame. The guy joins the Mount Rushmore of Steroids with McGwire, Canseco, and Sosa. A few years ago the media wondered if he would pass Bonds eventually. What a joke.

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                      • FedEx227
                        Delivers
                        • Mar 2009
                        • 10454

                        #12
                        A-Rod more than those guys would need to be eliminated from HOF discussion since IMO it's worse to be tested and suspended under the rules than just suspected or later admitting.
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                        • Woy
                          RIP West
                          • Dec 2008
                          • 16372

                          #13
                          Make Braun serve his suspension if these guys have to without actually testing positive.



                          ^ Shouts to MvP for the sick sig. GFX TEAM BACK

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                          • Youk
                            Posts too much
                            • Feb 2009
                            • 7998

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Woy
                            Make Braun serve his suspension if these guys have to without actually testing positive.
                            If anything, the guys (Arod) who noted to be purchasing HGH should be suspended. Just because you're on the list shouldn't make it automatic, but if you were noted as actually purchasing anything illegal, come on. Really depends on how the rules are interpreted.

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                            • FedEx227
                              Delivers
                              • Mar 2009
                              • 10454

                              #15
                              Pretty sure this isn't suspendable, so let's all calm down.
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