Tower's is no "crusader"
Nice article in today's UT by Tom Krasovic. Tower's is trying to put this steroid issue to rest and get on with the baseball season.
Towers - "The last thing I wanted to be portrayed as is some crusader who's out here trying to save the game," Towers said. "This really stemmed from personal feelings toward a particular player on our club, and a problem that I thought has existed in the game for some time."
Towers - "What I am upset about is I didn't want to be a distraction to our ballclub, our organization or anybody else who had to deal with this," he said. "I probably made this a distraction to a lot of people other than myself. Because of what I've said, I've been a distraction for them. For that, I'm not happy."
Towers - "When I spoke (last week), I never really thought about how I was going to be perceived, good or bad. That wasn't the intent. The intent wasn't selfish, of, 'Boy, I want to be the great guy.' Not at all. I speak from the heart, how I feel."
Towers - "It was never really anything that Boch and I ever really discussed," Towers said yesterday. "That's very normal. I don't think there's anything that's crazy about that to where one guy may have been suspicious and another guy wasn't."
Towers - "Boch is about as honest a guy as you're ever going to meet," he said. "That's what I've always loved about him. If he said he wasn't suspicious, he wasn't suspicious. If that makes me look bad or makes him look bad, so be it."
Towers - "I trust him. We're not in the business here that 'I'm going to protect you, you protect me.' Bruce and I, we don't work that way. I speak my mind. He speaks his mind. At the end of the day, we're on the same truck and we're friends and we want to go out and win baseball games together."
Bochy - "It just goes to show we have different views on different things."
Towers - "The last thing I wanted to be portrayed as is some crusader who's out here trying to save the game," Towers said. "This really stemmed from personal feelings toward a particular player on our club, and a problem that I thought has existed in the game for some time."
Towers - "What I am upset about is I didn't want to be a distraction to our ballclub, our organization or anybody else who had to deal with this," he said. "I probably made this a distraction to a lot of people other than myself. Because of what I've said, I've been a distraction for them. For that, I'm not happy."
Towers - "When I spoke (last week), I never really thought about how I was going to be perceived, good or bad. That wasn't the intent. The intent wasn't selfish, of, 'Boy, I want to be the great guy.' Not at all. I speak from the heart, how I feel."
Towers - "It was never really anything that Boch and I ever really discussed," Towers said yesterday. "That's very normal. I don't think there's anything that's crazy about that to where one guy may have been suspicious and another guy wasn't."
Towers - "Boch is about as honest a guy as you're ever going to meet," he said. "That's what I've always loved about him. If he said he wasn't suspicious, he wasn't suspicious. If that makes me look bad or makes him look bad, so be it."
Towers - "I trust him. We're not in the business here that 'I'm going to protect you, you protect me.' Bruce and I, we don't work that way. I speak my mind. He speaks his mind. At the end of the day, we're on the same truck and we're friends and we want to go out and win baseball games together."
Bochy - "It just goes to show we have different views on different things."
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