There's been allegations about Mike Piazza's possible steroid use in the news recently thanks to Jeff Pearlman's new book and rumors about him written in blogs. Much like Mark McGuire, it appears that Mike Piazza is just ducking away from any media attention these days, probably to avoid talking about the "S" topic. Kinda sad.
Piazza, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen. Escorted by security, he went from the field to the stadium tunnel. His plan to avoid the news media was only briefly interrupted, by two questions from a television news reporter about the new stadium.
It was unclear if Piazza’s reluctance to talk was connected to allegations of steroid use in a recently published book, “The Rocket That Fell to Earth,” by Jeff Pearlman. The book is about Roger Clemens, but in one section Pearlman writes that Piazza confided to unidentified reporters during his career that he had used performance-enhancing drugs.
No other information in the book backed up the assertion. Since the book was published, Piazza has declined several requests for comment.
“He wasn’t looking for any attention,” Jay Horwitz, the Mets’ vice president for media relations, said when asked why Piazza did not want to talk.
“He said, ‘I’m a private person now, I have a family, I’m raising my kids, my wife’s having a baby and I want to stay in the background.’ ”
[Joshua Robinson of the NY Times]
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