Where have we heard that line before? It's the same old song and dance routine no matter who the athlete is. Floyd Landis said his tests were possibly the results of something ingested, Barry said he unknowingly used steroids, Raffy said he was injected with what he thought was vitamin B-12 by Tejada, and now its Merriman who is saying that his supplements were tainted.
Is it possible to have tainted supplements? Absolutely! Merriman's attorney complained about the nutrition industry because he feels the feds need to regulate them more. If only the federal government would regulate these products my clients would never get in trouble. (OOPS, then I might be out of job. Never mind.)
This is one of the reasons that several major sports franchises want you to buy your supplements from them and not from outside sources. They certify that the supplements are steroid free. That makes you wonder why any athlete would continue to buy them from sources that will not make that guarantee. Maybe they want the steroids. Maybe as long as they buy from tainted sources they can blame it on the "industry". Either way, I don't think he will win on his appeal, but stranger things have happened.
