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Did all of these guys have the same lawyer write their response? It always starts with “I have no idea how I took a PED” and ends with “But I’ll take the consequences and I know it’s my team that will suffer more.”
Seriously. Man up. Admit what you did and don’t try to pretend this is all a surprise.
rmullig2
ARod manned up and got crucified by it. Ortiz is the one who first came up with this “I don’t know how I could have tested positive” excuse and the writers still cover for him.
Ted
I get the logic behind cancelling a player’s contract, but man oh man that could have ugly unintended consequences.
Not happy you signed a terrible player for $300MM? Just spike his drink — or at least the player could claim that’s what happened.
Conversely, not happy you signed a 10 year $10MM deal as a 23 year old? Just take some PEDs, deal with the PR fallout, and you’re suddenly a free agent.
dbacksrs
Good points.
AidanVega123
Never thought about it that way. That’s a great point.
One Fan
I get what you said but if someone had a ten year ten million contract the team would not cut him. They would only do so on large contracts
jkim319
Commissioner Manfred (with support of the owners and the players union) need to think hard about what to do with this subject in this ‘post’ steroid era. All have ‘everything’ to lose (look at salaries post 2010, potential expansion, tv revenues and tv projections)… Why put any of this at risk?
Right now most people reading about D Gordon’s ‘decision’ (to do whatever he did, whenever he did it, and for however long he did it), can see the $50mm payoff he got …
If PED’s are creeping back into the sport, it needs to be stopped with ‘vigor.’
I love the idea of 2 years for 1st offense. (Talking about existing MLB their performance) players ‘considering’ PEDs to enhance This is a big enough window, where most any player would realize that being this far away from the sport makes is almost impossible to come back (even a ‘comeback’ would involve 1-2 more years at low salary, likely minor league contracts on top of the 2 years of lost salary).
There is a totally separate conversation for PEDs in minor league ball. MiLB is really where the ‘risk’ (of getting caught) vs the reward ($507,000 min salary vs $1400-$2000/mo for 6 months) is a marginal deterrent at best.
Teams already have total salary control of minor league players, if MLB is serious about preventing PEDs in baseball why not start with implementing ‘real’ penalties at this level?
jkim319
[Sorry, editing got scrambled]… (Talking about existing MLB players) considering ‘PEDs’ to enhance their performance …
Thegreatandpowerfulsimba
An “exogenous” source of a naturally occurring vital hormone- it’s time to stop making irrational rules to pander to the ignorant masses. You can’t turn an average joe into a nutritionist, much less an endocrinologist. Long story short no hormone makes you heal like a comic book character. Not shot or shake makes your muscles magically expand. I wonder what his t levels were?
AGAVE
Makes his trade by the Dodgers look better now than when it first happened.
mike156
For a moment, let’s take him at his word and say that he didn’t “knowingly ingest”, How do we deal with that? If the implications are supplements, perhaps the answer is for MLB and MLBPA to work together to have standard protocols and a certification process for manufacturers. If the player is really concerned that he won’t inadvertently ingest, let him use only approved products that are constantly tested. If I’m on the union side, and believe that the player’s test was, without intent, impacted by a tainted “protein shake” I could get behind that idea.
jleve618
That seems like a good idea. At least it gives players who are worried about this sort of thing a different route to take. On the flip side, if someone gets popped for using, the “I didn’t know excuse” loses credibility because you can say they should have been using an approved regimen.
bbgods
One idea is to have teams continue to pay their contract after they come back, but give a percentage of the money to improve the research and development of the testing protocol.
dhud
Still hate Braun.
Should’ve been black balled out of baseball for the stunt he pulled
Twinsfan79
This is getting stupid. I never could wrap my head around the positive tests and then the denials. I even leaned toward believing these players. I wonder if the things the dopers are taking are drugs their “trainers” or vitamin dudes or whoever tell them are undetectable 100%. Otherwise why take them? There is no reward for knowing you’ll get busted if you get tested. I’m under the thinking these guys know every last thing they eat. The thing that ticks me off is when they lie. I don’t really care if guys use PED’s or not.