Hicks suspects Gonzalez used

Thu., June 21, 2007

Associated Press The Spokesman-Review

ARLINGTON, Texas – Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks suspects that two-time American League MVP Juan Gonzalez may have used steroids.

“I have no knowledge that Juan used steroids. His number of injuries and early retirement just makes me suspicious,” Hicks wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Wednesday. “In any event, we paid him $24 million for very few games.”

Hicks was responding to questions about a television interview in which he was asked about decisions he regretted since owning the team, then mentioned the oft-injured outfielder and steroids.

“Juan Gonzalez for $24 million after he came off steroids, probably, we just gave that money away,” Hicks said in the June 10 interview, aired in Dallas-Fort Worth.

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