Leyritz and "Little Helpers"
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Jim Leyritz admitted to using amphetamines during an interview on Thursday. "I can remember my first amphetamine," Jim Leyritz said. "I was out all night drinking with Andy Hawkins and some of the guys on the team. I was a young player."
"I came in. I was hung over, sleeping by my locker. And all of a sudden, Don Mattingly came to me and said, 'Hey, you're in the lineup.' And I went, 'What?' He goes, 'Yeah, I just hurt my back.'
"Now I'm walking around, I'm going, 'I don't know how I'm going to do this. There's no way that I can go play this game today.' I ran into my teammate who I knew had some of the 'little helpers,' as they called them.
"He said, 'Take one of these. It should help. It'll take the edge off.'
"So sure enough, I took one. He goes, 'OK, you can take two, but no more than two.' So I popped one more, and I went out and went 3-for-4 with two homers."
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Fri 06/09/06, 10:42 am EST
