This shouldn't surprise anyone, but there are more steroids accusations flying around baseball. Some of the names are not new to the accusation game, like Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada, but others are, like Andy Pettitte, Brian Roberts and Jay Gibbons. The funniest name on the list has to be Jay Gibbons, but I guess it just goes to show you that steroids can in fact make a mediocre player into, um, still just a mediocre player. I was suspicious of Brian Roberts though. His breakout performance in 2005 was great but a little hard to believe.
Unfortunately, their denials are unconvincing. Read the article and you will see that each of them point to the fact that they haven't ever failed a drug test. Now while that works for someone like Lance Armstrong (although I think we still have our doubts about him), it doesn't ring true for MLB players where testing has only been around for a year and doesn't go so far as to test for human growth hormone.
4 comments:
At least we know for sure that none of the Nationals are on steroids....especially the pitchers!
I wouldn't say none of the Nationals. I have always been suspicious of Soriano.
Really, Sori? Are you saying currently or in the past? Has his performance really changed that much? I'd expect more from him if he was on steroids.
I have suspected it since he came up with the Yankees. He has way more power than I would expect from someone his size. The sad thing about all of this is that we are left to guess who is on steroids and how isn't based on bad assumptions and obviously circumstantial evidence.
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