Bodog Beat

Rick Ankiel received a year's supply of human growth hormone in 2004, the Daily News reported today. (AI Wire photo)

The feel-good story of the year in sports just jumped off the top of a building and splattered all over the sidewalk.

Yesterday, Rick Ankiel homered twice and had a career-high of seven RBIs, leading the defending World Series champion Cardinals over the Pittsburgh Pirates by a score of 16-4.

Today, he's being linked to HGH. This is what the Daily News reported:

"According to records obtained by The News and sources close to the controversy surrounding anti-aging clinics that dispense illegal prescription drugs, Ankiel received eight shipments of HGH from Signature Pharmacy in Orlando from January to December 2004, including the brand-name injectable drugs Saizen and Genotropin. Signature is the pharmacy at the forefront of Albany District Attorney David Soares' two-year investigation into illegal Internet prescription drug sales, which has brought 22 indictments and nine convictions."

"This is the first I've heard of this," Cardinals GM Walt Jocketty told The News yesterday. "If it's true, obviously it would be very tragic, along with everything else we've had happen to us this year."

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