Ex-Met employee guilty of steroid charge

April 28, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO — A former New York Mets clubhouse employee pleaded guilty Friday to distributing steroids to major league players, and is cooperating with baseball's steroids investigation.

Kirk Radomski, 37, admitted providing anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, Clenbuterol, amphetamines and other drugs to "dozens of current and former Major League Baseball players, and associates, on teams throughout Major League Baseball," San Francisco U.S. Attorney Scott Schools said in a statement.

"We support the efforts of the U.S. Attorney's office in combating the illegal use of performance-enhancing substances, and we are encouraged that the U.S. Attorney has insisted Mr. Radomski cooperate with Senator George Mitchell's investigation as a condition of the plea agreement," said MLB president Bob DuPuy in a statement. "We urge all personnel connected with Major League Baseball to come forward with whatever information they may have that will assist Senator Mitchell in his investigation."

Fehr won't follow Bonds

NEW YORK — Union head Donald Fehr doesn't plan to be at the ballpark if and when Barry Bonds sets the career home run record.

"I won't follow him around, but I generally don't go to games during the season, so that's nothing new for me," Fehr said Friday during a meeting with the Associated Press Sports Editors.

"My guess is it's probably possible if not likely that somebody from our office will be there because Bobby Bonilla is in the office and he'll probably go," Fehr said. "And if he wants to go, we'll certainly send him."

Bonilla, Bonds' former teammate on the Pittsburgh Pirates, has worked for the players' association for several years. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday he still hasn't decided whether he will attend.

"People will celebrate as they will and in many respects it's an individual judgment that's going to have to be made," Fehr said. "My guess is that if he does break the record, down the road, whether it's five or 10 or 15 or 20 years, this kind of a debate or discussion probably won't seem very significant, that people will say this is one of the most extraordinary players ever to play."