Blood Sport by Tim Elfrink & Gus Garcia-Roberts

Author:Tim Elfrink & Gus Garcia-Roberts [Elfrink, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-07-08T00:00:00+00:00

Bosch’s handwritten regimen for Melky Cabrera, using his nickname “Mostro”

But in the meantime, Bosch had a cash-flow problem.

Without his big leaguers, Biogenesis just didn’t pay the bills. Consider his July 2012 financial books, the month before the Melky fiasco. Bosch recorded only his ordinary Miami clients on the official books—and the picture wasn’t pretty. He’d collected $24,355 from 119 active customers, including the Collazo clan and Elie “Booba” Yaffa.

The same group owed $35,180, so his collection services weren’t the best. But the real problem was his expenses: Between weekly payments to his ex-wives, staff pay, rent, and mounting costs for his meds (including a nearly $4,000 debt to Oggi), he owed $32,334 for July.

That didn’t include off-the-books expenses. Bosch liked to let off steam by popping bottles at South Beach nightclubs, and there is evidence that he enjoyed the harder, more expensive stuff as well. A friend named Robert Davis Miller later cashed in on his purported knowledge of Bosch’s love of Miami’s most famous imported product.

Ten years younger than Bosch, Miller was the quintessential cocaine buddy. His criminal career had started when he was just fourteen, bouncing in and out of juvenile detention eleven times on charges including criminal mischief and auto theft. Four years later, he was arrested for fighting his football coach at Sunset High and then threatening to “fuck up” the opposing team’s coach. After high school, he started breaking into neighborhood houses and strolling out with thousands of dollars in jewelry. In 1995, he was caught with a gun while out on probation and sent to federal prison.

According to a sworn affidavit Miller later provided to Alex Rodriguez, he and Bosch bonded over a love of cocaine. The ex-con claims that he saw Bosch use cocaine “almost daily,” and provided photos of the two hanging out with Baggies of white powder on a coffee table. “He had a reputation for heavy partying and drug use,” Lorraine Delgadillo, a former Biogenesis nurse, wrote in a similar affidavit about her one-time boss. Bosch later pled the Fifth when A-Rod’s attorneys pushed him on the question of his coke addiction.

Now Bosch’s wild lifestyle was unraveling. Except for the thousands coming in from big leaguers, he was operating in the red. There was no way around it.

• • •

Bosch had been trying to leverage his off-the-books cash into that chain of clinics he’d always envisioned stretching across South Florida and into the Caribbean. If Tony Bosch believed, at heart, in one thing, it was that he was destined for greatness. No one was more conned by the Bosch sales pitch than Bosch himself.

His notebooks are littered with half-baked ideas of how to transform his moderate success as a local anti-aging snake oil salesman into international fame and fortune. In one note, he imagines writing books and magazines and producing merchandise for the “Hormone Response Diet,” or “Hormone Response Nutrition.”

Elsewhere, he plots a diet book with an all-too-appropriate name: Lose Like Hell.

Bosch’s own credentials are

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