Media Steroid Frenzy Seeks Alex Rodriguez Steroid Connections

The aftermath of Alex Rodriguez’ steroid confessional press conference has been marked by an aggressive media feeding frenzy in a race to uncover incriminating steroid connections.

It is safe characterize journalists as obsessed with Alex Rodriguez's admitted steroid use. White House correspondents covering President Barack Obama’s first prime-time presidential press conference were eager to learn President Obama thoughts on A-Rod’s steroid use.

The New York Daily News sent a reporter to the Dominican Republic to purchase the same steroids as Alex Rodriguez; curiously, he failed, unable to obtain Primobolan, but that didn’t stop the story. But that was only the beginning of the insidious Alex Rodriguez witch-hunt.

The press identified the name of Alex Rodriguez cousin who allegedly smuggled the steroids into the United States for A-Rod and injected him bi-weekly for several years.

ESPN was knocking on the door of Yuri Sucart’s residence in Miami and talking to his wife on the phone within several hours of A-Rod’s press conference (”A-Rod’s cousin lives in Miami,” Feb. 19).

When an ESPN Deportes producer knocked on the Sucarts’ door in Miami, no one answered. The producer then called the Sucarts’ house on the telephone and reached a woman who later identified herself as Yuri Sucart’s wife.

When the producer asked if Rodriguez had referred to her husband at Tuesday’s news conference, she said yes. [...]

“Yuri was a mule, not a guy who would initiate anything,” a friend once close to Rodriguez said Wednesday. “He did what Alex told him to. He was only looking out for Alex. He is not a guy who would take the initiative to go out and buy drugs.

Alex said during the press conference that his cousin just did what was asked—that is perfect for Yuri’s M.O. He is a person who would be with him forever, a loyal guy without a bad bone in his body.”