Kirk Radomski on XM 175 with Rob Dibble and Jody Mac

Radomski does another excellent job explaining what's going on (as he did in his WFAN interview recently). Main points:

• HGH is not a performance enhancer. In fact it slows you down in the first few weeks. It's only a healer. By itself it won't make you stronger. It doesn't have any positive effect til at least 6 weeks and more likely several months.

• He only gave players small quantities at a time, didn't trust players to know how to use it. For example, weight lifters take the substance in much greater quantities over shorter time period.

• The solution to no current HGH test: have players all give samples that will be frozen til such time as there is a test. Radomski thinks this will work.

• In all this the players' union has been most lax and ineffective in handling the players. Had they handled business correctly for the players, there would have been no Mitchell report nor the mishandled 2003 tests (which are still in litigation I believe). Said he's been in a union,
• and if his union bungled things as badly as Fehr and Orza, someone in the union would be
• lying dead in a ditch.

Re: Selena Roberts, Radomski says her co-author Dave Epstein called him last May or June (2008) to ask questions. Radomski: "Based on what he was asking, I knew it had to come from a player." I won't name names, could have made a lot of money naming names but have refused to do so.

• Players mistake is they trusted too many people, starting with the union, which he says needs to be thrown out and started over. But says some players have egos too big to figure they're doing something wrong.

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