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So, Darryl, would you have used steroids if you would have had an opportunity to do so during your playing days? Quoth Strawberry:

“Hell, yeah, I would have used them. Are you kidding me?” Strawberry said as he kicked off a week as a guest instructor at Mets camp, during a defense of Alex Rodriguez. “You know what, it’s just the point of being in sports. In our nature we’re competitive creatures. We have a tremendous drive and high tolerance and all of these things in us.

“I’m not saying that was the right thing to do,” Strawberry continued, referring to A-Rod’s steroid use. “But if somebody asked me if I would have faced it, what would I have done if that was going on in the era of the ’80s, it definitely probably would have been in my system, too. I probably would have been a part of it, too. And I wouldn’t have denied it, because you guys know I don’t deny anything.”

Then again, Strawberry clearly didn’t have many issues with foreign substances in his body during those years.

Words of wisdom from the Mets’ one-week guest instructor. Perhaps the Mets should keep Strawberry away from their minor leaguers.