A-Roid's Story Falling Apart?

No one should be surprised by any of this. Alex Rodriguez's story isn't holding up to scrutiny according to the New York Daily News, which finds that he has had a cozy relationship with a trainer who has been banned from MLB clubhouses because of his steroid taint.

Embattled Yankee Alex Rodriguez has had a long relationship with a steroid-linked trainer who's been banned from major league clubhouses, four independent sources told the Daily News.

Angel Presinal, who was banned from private areas of every MLB ballpark after an October 2001 incident involving an unmarked gym bag full of steroids, has been tight with the Yankee slugger dating back to his time with the Texas Rangers, several sources said.

A former New York-area scout says Presinal, whose named surfaced in the Mitchell Report, was with Rodriguez in New York and Miami as recently as this past fall.

MLB has warned players to stay away from him.

He has been thrown out of clubhouses in Cleveland, Anaheim and Texas.

"He's an unsavory character," said a source.

Meanwhile, the drug A Rod claims could have been obtained over the counter in the Dominican Republic courtesy of his cousin could only be obtained with a prescription according to officials in the Dominican. At his presser, Rodriguez claimed that his cousin (who was unnamed, but has since been revealed as Yuri Sucart by the press) had obtained Primobolan in the Dominican over the counter and was widely available.

Sucart has been unavailable for comments, but has been a constant presence around Rodriguez and is apparently his driver and personal assistant and was in and around the Yankee clubhouse in 2008.