Former Major League baseball player Randy Velarde claims that a coaching staff of a current first place team has provided its players with steroids, and also uses various performance-enhancing substances on themselves.

Velarde made the comments in an interview with Ana Maria Callejeo Guillen for E$PN Deportes, sources tell DRUDGE.

The former infielder suggests that this coaching staff, during a previous stint at the helm of a Major League franchise, provided steroids to all their players during “I wasn’t there when it happened, but I know what I was told. Every day before BP, I was told they’d all be in the locker room, sticking needles in each other’s culo,” says Velarde. “And usually, it was the coaches doing the shots. And then they’d shoot themselves up, too. And they’d be saying stuff like “˜Oh, Clemens is going down tonight!’ and “˜Here comes my twenty-seventh win!’ and “˜I’ll show then 1987 wasn’t a fluke!'”

Velarde goes on to insinuate that this coaching staff is still doing these things. “Like I’ve been saying, this isn’t from me – I just know someone that knows someone that’s been doing a lot of dirty laundry. But let me just throw out some questions, OK, chica?” Velarde begins. “Which team has a star player that has people thinking he’s older than he actually is? Which pitching staff is getting by with an average rotation and no-name bullpen? Which team has a shortstop knee-high to a burro hitting grand slams? Which team’s players are always getting hurt come September or October? And which team’s coach just had an altercation with another team’s coach during BP?”

A trusted DRUDGE source with TiVo says that when Guillen asked Velarde to comment on the recent altercation between St. Louis Cardinal pitching coach Dave Duncan and Pittsburgh Pirate hitting coach Gerald Perry (link), Velarde shook his head and said nothing for 20 seconds, instead training his eyes on Guillen’s ample bosom.

When asked by Guillen to name names, Velarde vehemently declined, sources tell DRUDGE. “Are you loco? I ain’t saying who I’m talking about! I’m just telling you what someone told someone who told someone who told me! I don’t want anyone SEEING RED about this. And straight-out narcing is FOR THE BIRDS.” Valerde then goes on to intimate that the manager, for the past twenty years, has been injecting an experimental drug that optimizes synaptcial efficiency. “People talk about Barry Bonds’ swelled head, but they should look at this guy! He’s FLYING HIGH on his own supply! But, like I said, I’m only telling you what I think I heard when someone else was talking on the phone to someone else about something.”

Velarde spent most of his 16-year Major League career with the New York Yankees. He retired in 2002 as a member of the Oakland A’s. In March of 2004, Velarde was named as one of six Major League Baseball players to have received steroids from BALCO – the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative – via Barry Bonds’ personal trainer, Greg Anderson.

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