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David Segui Hates Former Steroid-Using Baseball Players Who are Hypocrites

David Segui is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) player who last played during the height of baseball's so-called “steroid era”. The first baseman retired in 2004 after a successful 15-year professional baseball career. And yes, Segui admitted using anabolic steroids and he knows many other players who used steroids as well.

Segui has adamantly refused to snitch on any teammates and/or other players who benefited from the use of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). It didn't matter that his name came to the attention of federal authorities because former Arizona Diamandback pitcher Jason Grimsley ratted him out when he named Segui along with the Houston Astros' pitchers Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte and the Baltimore Orioles's Miguel Tejada, Jay Gibbons, and Brian Roberts).

Segui called the feds to confess his use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone (hGH) once his name came up. But when they asked him about other players, Segui refused to talk. It is a position that Segui maintains to this day.

Today, Segui is most troubled by all of the hypocrites condemning current steroid-using players. If former MLB players used steroids, benefited, profited and got away with it, Segui can accept that. It is the former steroid users who are now complaining the loudest about other steroid users that angers Segui.

“What bothers me is the hypocrites,” Segui said in an interview with Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe. “I see them on TV sometimes criticizing people who took steroids. I say, ‘What a minute... maybe the public doesn’t know what you did, but I know what you did.’ Those are the ones that bother me. Just keep your mouth shut.”

It is one thing for Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens to be condemned for their decisions to use PEDs. But when former steroid-using players are the ones directing the scorn and ridicule, Segui finds it completely unacceptable.

Segui has been outspoken about his use of PEDs. And to some degree, he has been less than apologetic. Segui said he worked too hard to risk losing his job by eschewing the benefits of steroids and hGH. Segui chose to use steroids because he felt his career was in jeopardy if he did not.

“It came to a certain point that if you weren’t doing something you were jeopardizing your career,” Segui said. “You were giving somebody else a foothold to take your job. I worked way too hard, no way I’m losing my job... I was in the gym three hours a day in season. Nobody else did that. I didn’t take any shortcuts. But if you did it, you had to be accountable and know that at some point you might get found out. ”

If steroids are the worst thing Segui did as a player, he is perfectly content with that. He remains irked by those former players who have taken the moral high ground to judge others.

“People talk about morals and character and you have players who cheated on their wives every night, snorted coke, took amphetamines, steroids, you name it,” Segui said. “So, when I get to the Pearly Gates, if the worst thing I did was put something in my body to help me get through a baseball season late in my career when there was no testing or rules, I like my chances.”

Source:

Cafardo, N. (May 10, 2015). A whole generation won’t have to answer for steroid use. Retrieved from https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/05/09/stars-taking-hit-for-steroid-use/q5mmFw8ALH3fwdjXh5VBcN/story.html