The next time Joe Tacopina heads to Boston, it’s safe to say he won’t be welcomed with open arms.
Tacopina, Alex Rodriguez’s lawyer, went on ESPN Radio Tuesday and defended his client for being upfront about his use of performance-enhancing drugs when it was revealed in 2009 he tested positive for steroids.
“No one else was compelled to say anything and no one else did say anything,” Tacopina said on Colin Cowherd’s radio show. “People were denying stuff. And I’m not going to start naming all the other players, but some of them are God-like in Boston right now, and people seem to forget that. … Alex came clean and admitted something when he didn’t have to.”
Tacopina may have been referring to David Ortiz, the Red Sox DH who tested positive for PEDs in 2003, according to a New York Times report, but he later told The Post he was not being specific.
“I was NOT referring to Ortiz,” he said, “just other players in general about how Alex was singled out.”