Originally Posted by BCWWF

I just found this in Sid Hartman's column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, so it should be pretty reliable. Just some butter for the bread per se.



Story questioned

New Ulm's Terry Steinbach, who was a teammate of both Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire during Steinbach's 10 years with the Oakland Athletics, doesn't believe Canseco's book about players being injected with steroids.

"I was in the training room a lot -- being a catcher you've got bumps and bruises, and you're constantly getting ice and heat, you know how that goes," said Steinbach, who is in spring training with the Twins as an instructor.

"I never once saw a player injecting a player or a player injecting himself. I never saw a player fiddling with syringes or players having vials of steroids, and you would think as much as you are around the clubhouse, if it was as bad as Jose is saying, that pretty much everyone there would have seen it.

"Here's a guy that comes out and says he injected himself, but again I never physically saw him do it. I don't know whether he did it at home or if he did it in the car or where he did it, but I never saw him the A's clubhouse inject himself."

Steinbach said Canseco never did work out much, while McGwire worked out all of the time.

"If he did show up, it was a three- or four-minute workout, and he would be gone," Steinbech said, an indication that Canseco did use steroids to get strong. "McGwire was my roommate in 1987, and he used to work out so much I told him to get a life."

Steinbach said he is looking forward to working with catcher Joe Mauer in Twins spring training. Mauer missed most of last season after left knee surgery.

"I think he's got a tremendous future," Steinbach said. "I was so impressed with what I saw the last two spring trainings with him and was very excited for him to start his major league career last year coming out of spring. Then, to have that unfortunate injury ... hopefully he's done he's over with that he's back on track and hopefully he'll have a tremendous year on the start of a long, long career."