MLB Had Bosox PED Probe Last Year
Via the Boston Globe with a H/T to BBTF –
Major League Baseball opened an investigation into performance-enhancing drugs inside the Red Sox clubhouse at the height of last year’s pennant race after two members of the team’s security staff were implicated in steroid use.
Both men were fired in a case that speaks to both Major League Baseball’s new intolerance for steroids and its inconclusive efforts to investigate suspicious cases.
The security staffers said they were dismissed after what they termed a cursory inquiry by Major League Baseball, and very limited questioning by the team – even though one of the guards says he swapped advice about steroids with David Ortiz’s close friend and personal assistant.
Both men said they told investigators they had no direct knowledge of steroid use by Red Sox players, including Manny Ramírez or Ortiz, both of whom were named in a New York Times report last week as having tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.
But, in interviews with the Globe, both revealed clubhouse details that could have fueled a more zealous inquiry. And the investigation did not even resolve the basic question of where the steroids the security staffer was caught with came from.
“I’m sure they were hoping I didn’t know anything,’’ said Jared Remy, one of the security staffers who lost his job. “It’s like they didn’t want to know. It’s like: Do we really want to know or do we just want it to go away?’’
The major league inquiry began after State Police confiscated a vial of steroids from the car of Nicholas Alex Cyr, a security staffer who was returning from a Red Sox-related event just before last year’s All-Star break in mid-July. Cyr told police he had bought the drug from Remy, the son of Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy.
Jared Remy denied being the supplier, but acknowledged in interviews with the Globe that he has been a steroid user.
Wow, so, RemDawg’s son was in the middle of this one. I think the worse thing Scooter Jr. ever did was telling Yogi that Yoo-Hoo with a beer chaser was no substitute for a Kahlua Mudslide…
Finally some news that those “lovable” and “scrappy” Sux were no different than the other MLB teams. Glad that balloon has popped in Boston, they were becoming quite insufferable.
But I could care less about all this PED crap, if Papi hits a homer to help the Sux win then they won’t care or stop cheering him for a curtain call. If A-Rod’s juice helps the Yanks win then I’m not here to judge him either, I’ll cheer for him just like I’d cheer for a clean player. None of this crap means anything to me: heroes, role-models and crap about “the kids” rings hollow to me.
A parent’s job is to be their kids biggest role model. I loved L.T and #56 for the New York Giants as a kid, his coke and crack binges did not affect me one way or another, my mother working and doing whatever was necessary was my real hero, she was my role model. I just wanted #56 to sack Randall Cunningham, with or without crack and coke in his system didn’t matter to me. As long as it didn’t get in the way of sacking quaterbacks, then I didn’t really care. I feel the same way about PED or whatever else players do on their own time.
However, if what they do on their own time starts to have an affect on their play in the field then I take notice.
ortiz only had protein shakes though?