The second part comes from the guest on “Not My Job,” Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose memoir, Wait Till Next Year – A Memoir, is being re-issued this year.ĭICKINSON: But she wrote – you wrote a baseball book and a novel, right? Rodriguez was not “caught doping.” If he had been, there wouldn’t be any of these lawsuits and appeals. I do have a bone to pick with my friend, Sagal, who was kind enough to write a blurb for my book. O’ROURKE: Yeah, when you’ve got Lance Armstrong saying that, you are in trouble.

O’ROURKE: Right, which is saying something.īURBANK: Like when Lance Armstrong is like whoa, dude… Hey, in about half an hour, I’ll be over to inject your food into your butt.īURBANK: I mean, when – getting into the evidence, I mean, what the governmental body looking into it is saying this trumps Lance Armstrong in terms of… SAGAL: Hey says we call them food, right, for plausible deniability. And A-Rod texts back, and he says dude, do not call them drugs. And one of the tests, this is true, Bosch says OK, I’ve got the drugs for you for today’s game. They had endless texts between the drug guy, this guy named Bosch, and A-Rod, saying take this now, take this then. And so what would happen is – and they had this. SAGAL: One of the interesting things about this is it wasn’t just drugs administered in such a way to increase performance but to evade testing. And A-Rod’s response: Hey, you can’t believe that guy. Major League Baseball said look, here’s the guy who testifies that he provided A-Rod with performance-enhancing drugs for years. We also got this week to see all the evidence that had been established against him that he’d been using drugs. SAGAL: Let this be a lesson to all of you aspiring athletes out there: Do not use drugs because after making $200 million, you might be forced to sit by the pool for a year before getting $50 million more. And he’s a guy who sees the syringe as half-full. LUKE BURBANK: Side note, if you want to know how much he doped, it’s the guy who doesn’t even know any baseball players’ names just picked A-Rod.ĪMY DICKINSON: But you know what I love about his…?ĭICKINSON: He just said, you know, hey, this is great. SAGAL: But he’s the one in the news this week.

O’ROURKE: Because we suspect about 2,000 other baseball players are doping is why it might not be A-Rod.

(Contestant) ROCKATANSKY: Oh gosh, it’s not A-Rod? He’s been thrown out after he was caught doping. PETER SAGAL: That was someone talking about how much he’s going to enjoy taking 2014 off from his job. In “Who’s Carl This Time?”, we heard from Alex Rodriguez:ĬARL KASELL: I think that Major League Baseball has done me a big favor because I’ve been playing for 20 years without a timeout. There was a disproportionate amount of baseball on the latest episode of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.

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