The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

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• Rafael Palmeiro:

  Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.

• Rafael Palmeiro:

  The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

• Rafael Palmeiro:

  I love baseball, and the door remains open.

• Rafael Palmeiro:

  I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.

• Rafael Palmeiro:

  My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

• Rafael Palmeiro:

  It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

• Rafael Palmeiro:

  To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go

• Rafael Palmeiro:

  They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 y

• Rafael Palmeiro:

  Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

• Rafael Palmeiro:

  I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know wha