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—-.”

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