Bronson Arroyo, of course, is best known as a rock and roll legend who sings about take-and-bake beef hoagies. But did you also know that he’s a baseball player? Well, he is! He was teammates with David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez when they failed the famous drug tests back in 2003, and when the news broke, he admitted that he himself used performance-enhancing drugs prior to 2004. Sources can’t confirm this, but it’s likely that he stuck out his tongue and mimed a nonspecific guitar riff immediately after doing so.

He’s not done “riffing” (that is an obscure and hilarious guitar reference). In an interview with USA Today, Arroyo volunteers that he still takes unapproved supplements

“I have a lot of guys in (the locker room) who think I’m out of (my) mind because I’m taking a lot of things not on the (MLB-approved) list,” Arroyo says. “I take 10 to 12 different things a day, and on the days I pitch, there’s four more things. There’s a caffeine drink I take from a company that (former teammate) Curt Schilling introduced me to in ‘05. I take some Korean ginseng and a few other proteins out there that are not certified. But I haven’t failed any tests, so I figured I’m good.”

With this quote, Arroyo hasn’t quite become the active player’s answer to Jose Canseco, but he’s just about the only guy on a major league roster to talk this way. It’s almost as though he doesn’t give a–

“People can think what they want of me,” he says. “I don’t give a f—-.”

Well, there you go. The motive for Arroyo’s indignant confession isn’t completely clear, but the news here is that finally, we have a player who shows any public signs of disagreement with baseball’s PED policy. If you think about it a certain way, you wonder why it took this long. Many baseball players — maybe even the majority — love performance-enhancing drugs. Some may have stopped using them once the policy took effect, and some may offer tearful repentance after they’re outed, but that doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t love to take them now. PEDs were their golden goose, but almost to a man, none of them protested once it was taken away. Perhaps when the hammer came down, the players collectively said, “yeah, OK, we’re busted,” and hence didn’t put up a fight, but it surely wasn’t a product of moral conviction.

As such, it makes perfect sense that some players would fight to take back their ability to juice up, but until now, the only major voice to the contrary has been Jose Canseco, who has been retired for years and has nothing to lose. Arroyo does. He doesn’t want to fail a drug test, but he still thumbs his nose at the policy by not only pickling his insides with a dozen unapproved supplements and freely admitting to it, but by openly refusing to apologize for any PED use, past or present.

“I don’t regret a thing,” Arroyo says. “Neither should anyone else.”

And I have to respect him for it. We’ve been looking for an excuse to laud a player for his honesty over PEDs, but the best poster boys we’ve been able to find are the players who confessed after they were caught. Arroyo demonstrates the sort of honesty we’ve been searching for. Then again, he also covers the Goo Goo Dolls, so it’s kind of a wash.