Owner Tom Hicks said Wednesday that while he doesn’t have any knowledge that former Texas Rangers outfielder Juan Gonzalez used steroids, he does have his suspicions.
“I have no knowledge that Juan used steroids. His number of injuries and early retirement just makes me suspicious,” Hicks wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Wednesday. “In any event, we paid him $24 million for very few games.”
“Juan Gonzalez for $24 million after he came off steroids, probably, we just gave that money away,” Hicks said in the interview, aired Sunday night on KTVT-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Hicks almost sounds upset “Juan Gone” wasn’t on steroids when the Rangers inked him to that big contract doesn’t he? Like damn it, we shelled out $24 mil for this guy and he wasn’t even on the juice? What the hell?
