Cousin who provided A-Rod drugs identified

[cboy4]

Updated: February 19, 2009, 10:07 AM ET

By Amy K. Nelson
ESPN.com

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?"

Carmen Sucart declined to provide the name of her husband's lawyer. As the producer stood in front of the house, a teenage boy asked him to leave and said his father would not be talking.

A man who answered Yuri Sucart's cell phone late Wednesday night said he wasn't there and asked a reporter to call back in 30 minutes. The follow-up call went to voicemail. The people who know Yuri Sucart -- his first name often pronounced Judy -- say he's a loyalist and has always protected Rodriguez.

"Yuri was a mule, not a guy who would initiate anything," a friend once close to Rodriguez said Wednesday. "He did what Alex told him to. He was only looking out for Alex. He is not a guy who would take the initiative to go out and buy drugs. Alex said during the press conference that his cousin just did what was asked -- that is perfect for Yuri's MO. He is a person who would be with him forever, a loyal guy without a bad bone in his body."

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3917763

[joeybee12]

1. Sounds like a bad case of hero-worship, and also sounds like A-Roid's

"young and naive" excuse is bullshit.

[CreekDog]

2. now wait a minute, you defend Barry Bonds but you make fun of A-Rod?

i'm a Giants fan, but I cannot stand Barry Bonds, especially in light of the steroids.

but i wouldn't criticize one player's steroid use while defending or minimizing another's.

[madinmaryland]

3. WTF, CreekDog. You are obviously not a "real sports fan"! You might

as well be a fucking cowpie fan!

And then next year a fucking deadskin fan!

You are definately on the shitlist now!

[CreekDog]

4. Why thank you cboy/upton

:rofl: :hide:

[madinmaryland]

5. Excuse me, CreekDog, but I don't know

who she is that you are referring to!

:hi: