Paul Lo Duca, Washington Nationals' catcher and a character in the non-fiction essay the Mitchell Report, called into the Joe and Evan Show on WFAN660 in New York this morning. The show hosts, who have had plenty of harsh words for Lo Duca, were extremely cordial but did an honorable job in asking Lo Duca several steroid related questions.
In regards to the release of the Mitchell report,
I apologized. It’s something I did a long time ago. The perception, and people think that, hey, he did it last year. No. I did it a long time ago. And it was a mistake I did. I wish it would have never happened. It’s something I’ll have to deal with. But, you know, I’m sort of glad. I think it was a monkey that’s been on my back for a long time that finally flew off. It was something that I’m not proud of, obviously.
When asked if he viewed himself as a cheater, Lo Duca responded,
I don’t view myself as a cheater. Obviously it’s something I did. And obviously it’s something that helped me. But, you know, a lot of people don’t realize I got into a bad collision and got run over at home plate one year, in ’95 in Double-A. And I got it prescribed to me by a doctor. A lot of guys did it. There’s a lot of guys in front of me that did it. Like I said, I’m not making excuses. It was part of survival. You want to be at home or you want to be playing? That’s the way it was. I apologized for what I did, but that’s plain truth.
I think the really interesting thing here is that according to Lo Duca he was prescribed an illegal performance enhancing drug by a team doctor while playing for the Dodgers AA affliate, the San Antonio Missions. I believe this was absent from the Mitchell report.
I will try and get the actual audio up as soon as possible. Update: Audio Below.
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