Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 19, 2009
Alive and Well and Living in Miami

A-Rod's cousin couldn't evade reporters for long:

As far back as anyone can remember, Yuri Sucart was always by Alex Rodriguez's side.

Sucart would tell anyone who would listen he was Rodriguez's cousin. But he was also Rodriguez's best friend, confidant and personal protector.

On Tuesday, when Rodriguez said in a nationally televised news conference from New York Yankees spring training in Tampa, Fla., that it was his cousin who provided and injected him with performance-enhancing drugs, it was Sucart to whom Rodriguez was referring, Sucart's wife, Carmen, confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday night.

When an ESPN Deportes producer knocked on the Sucarts' door in Miami, Fla., no one answered. The producer then called the Sucarts' house on the telephone and reached a woman who later identified herself as Yuri Sucart's wife. When the producer asked if Rodriguez had referred to her husband at Tuesday's news conference, she said yes.

Carmen Sucart said Rodriguez had given enough details about her husband at the news conference.

"I told you my husband has nothing to say," she said. "What A-Rod said at the press conference is what happened and that is all. And if you want to talk to my husband, why don't you talk to his lawyer?"

I'm sure they'll be not only talking to the lawyer, but to anyone else who knows the man.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:12 AM | Cheating | TrackBack (0)
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Federal law has a general 5 year statute of limitations on crimes (excepting murder), so neither Alex nor cousin can be prosecuted on that. But if cousin isn't a US citizen, maybe he could be deported. That could be another reason why A-Rod didn't want to name any names.

Posted by: rbj at February 19, 2009 10:39 AM

A-Rod may have refused to give the cousin's name, but he had to know that the cousin would be tracked down sooner or later. (Sooner, as it turns out.) So, essentially, A-Rod threw his cousin under the bus.

Even if the cousin can't be charged with a crime or deported, his life has certainly taken a turn for the worse.

Posted by: jvwalt at February 19, 2009 11:04 AM
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