Fernando Viña Was Once Lost, But Now Is Found And Answering Some Questions

Former MLB player, Mitchell Report listee and current ESPN baseball analyst Fernando Viña came clean today on his network, a day after he played “Where’s Fernando” with them. He disappeared over the weekend, even after his bosses wanted him to come in. Not to fire him, but to interview him—it’s synergy, people!

Vina told ESPN he knew Radomski from his time with the Mets and tried HGH after injurying his knee and hamstring in 2003. He said there was pressure from his team (he was in St. Louis at the time), and pressure from himself to get back on the field.

So he turned, Andy Pettite-style, to H.G.H. because steroids are bad news. Totally unlike the shit he was injecting to speed up regrowing the tissue in his body. Too bad it didn’t regrow the tissue in his brain.

Of the checks in the report, especially the one in 2005, Vina said: “I made a lot of checks to a lot of different people in the baseball cities,” he said. “That’s just the way things go.”

Hm. We lose track of how we pay for things quite often, but we’re pretty sure we’ve never bought illegal substances with checks. Hooch, maybe, but never anything illegal.
ESPN analyst Vina says he used HGH in 2003-04, but never steroids [ESPN]
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