hey! what is this about david ortiz possibly having used steroids?

Question

if it is true, shouldn't he get kicked out of baseball? you hypocrite red sox fans jsut cannot stand the thought of one of your players being dirty? if it is true, then kiss the red sox pennant chances goodbye!

Answer 1

Go read the article and you will eat your words. Ortiz did an interview with the Boston Herald and he said that people need to be careful with what they are taking in regards to things such as supplements and protein shakes. He said he used to take a protein shake when he was growing up in the Dominican that he purchased at a GNC store but it is not a regulated market so it could have been a banned substance in the product, this is how some athletes do get caught using a banned substance because they do not now what is in it. He said he would never take steroids because they are bad for you and they mess up your liver. He never said he took steroids, he said he took a protein shake while growing up. He is not a dirty player, he was making a point that people need to know what they are putting into their bodies. He has not tested positive for steroids has he? He has not been implicated in any sort of steroid ring like Bonds, Giambi, or Sheffield has he? This is something being blown up by people who want to make a story out of nothing. Read the story and what he really said.

Face it, you are a Red Sox hater who wants to jump all over something when you have obviously not even read the story. Go read the story and realize your post just made you sound ignorant.

Answer 2

Haven't you heard? Any baseball player that has been good in the last 30 years is a juicer! The only thing you need to do is not like the guy and automatically he must be juicing. Clemens signed with the Yanks... gotta be juicing. Biggio's going for 3000 hits and he's 42... check him for needle marks! Vlad Guerrero can hit anything inside of a 12 foot radius... hand him a piss cup and pull 10cc's of blood!

This is getting freakin rediculous! Out of 750 players on all active rosters maybe .5% are actually guilty of taking anything stronger than an asprin. How about we stop and think about things logically and wait until all the investigations are finished before we start lumping all these guys together into the Barry Bonds wannabe club.

Answer 3

I think anything's possible. Ortiz was an average player with the Twins, and hit 58 homers in 6 years there. He goes to Boston and BOOM, he's one of the major's most fearsome sluggers. I have always given him the benefit of the doubt though, he was only 27 when he joined Boston, so he could have figured it out and improved. I have to laugh at the Boston fans though. They chant "steroids" whenever Giambi comes to bat, but if you ask them, no Boston player has EVER taken steroids, nope. If they believe that not even one player took steroids during their 2004 fluke season, then they are in denial or just plain stupid.

As for Andrew H, those are the most ridiculous arguments regarding Bonds I've ever seen. You think people want Bonds to fail because of race?? No way. We want him to fail because he is a cheater. Steroids make you recover faster from workouts so you can lift heavier and more often. Look at Bonds, it isn't normal for a man in his mid-thirties to gain that much muscle mass in such a short time. You also neglected to mention HGH, which is what many believe Bonds has taken and that DOES help improve hand-eye coordination and bat speed. HGH is given to old people some with Alzheimers, to make them stronger and to see better and to give them a better quality of life. What do you think it will do to an already great baseball player (but one who should have been slowing down) who takes them? Don't you think it's a little suspicious for a 37 year old man to beat his previous career high in home runs by 24, 73-49???!! As for the walks, pitchers have every right to walk someone who is doing things that should not be humanly possible. Bonds is a cheat, why do you think Greg Anderson hasn't spoken up? He's hiding something. As for your absurd racist remarks, Hank Aaron, who when I last checked was black, announced he will not be attending the game where Bonds may break his record. Gee, does that make Aaron a racist too? Or does he simply not want his record broken by a cheater? Get a clue.

As for Selig "perpetuating" the steroid myth, you must not have realized that he has been criticized for not doing anything until Canseco's book came out, and for being ignorant and turning the other cheek. Owners, which Selig was, knew something was going on and said nothing. Your little conspiracy theory can't hold water.

Answer 4

As much as we all hate this steroids crap he joined the league in 1994 with the twins. He did not made the headlines till he join the red sox and starts playing well. He is a good baseball player if he did use steroids that is still cheating. Its. like if you guys remember like guys like Greg Vaughn he use to play for the padres. He was a descent hitter till when the Mcgwire and sosa start raising for the record. He starts hitting homerun that is a good optimism but if even ortiz used it it wont really affect his game. Using steroids aint gonna make you hit the ball better it just give you more power to hit the ball its no use when you cant hit the ball. Sosa was legitimate hr hitter but Bonds and mcgwire they cheated all the way to get that record and it sucks that Babe ruth use alcohol to hit home runs, Hank aaron use determination to hit homeruns and they did it using their own self and its not fair that this guys has to use all this drugs to beat that record. Its a shame that bonds is gonna break hank aaron record and he cheated on some of it and that is a shame to the game.

Answer 5

There is no evidence to support these claims. he was talking about a protein shake that he took as a kid in the Dominican Republic as a youngster. His overall premise was that sometimes players are ingesting substances that are banned but they don't know it. He was actually defending Bonds and the fact that the best player of our era has been proven guilty w/out any evidence to support the allegations. It is a crying shame that any player that has been successful in the last 20 years is thought of as must have been juiced. The media and Bud Selig have done nothing but perpetuate this myth in order to relate the power numbers to illegal substances. Selig should be banned from commenting whatsoever, but his rhetoric is biased and suspect at best. And for all you haters out there, what did Bonds hit after he hit 73, a whopping .372 for the 2002 season, I guess steroids help your hand eye coordination, pitch selection, and number of walks in a year too? And where is all the investigation of pitchers? Afterall they are the ones who would benefit the most from juicing yet no one wants to look into that. This is nothing more than the usuall baseball witch hunt when any player of color is about to break a huge record.

Answer 6

the clarification he did not hit many homeruns with Minnesota is as a results of the fact he hadn't stepped forward a relentless huge league swing--he replaced right into a platoon participant. the final feeling approximately him replaced into, that if he ought to artwork out left-handed pitching, he may be an offensive tension. He went to Boston, have been given the superb preparation and took off. i won't be able to say i may be very much shocked to evaluation that any participant had carried out steroids, yet Ortiz is between the least questionable, IMO. he's geared up like a classic, hulking skill hitter, in comparison to a conventional-day physique builder.

Answer 7

All of this is coming from a die hard Yankee fan. Big papi said that he is unaware that he took steroids, if he even did. Dealing with both the Dominican and the USA laws is not alway easy. Some protien boosts are legal there, but illegal here, go figure. He has also said that he has no intention of ruining his life, he wants his kids to grow up proud.

Then there is the Barry Bonds isusse, he has been accused of steroids, but there is no "official" proof that he took them. Until the MLB says straight out that Ortiz did steroids, I am not beleiving it.

Well, that is my two cents.

Answer 8

Steroid allegations will always be the 'talk' from now on with sports...especially with the most profound and prolific athletes such as Bonds and Ortiz. Don't be surprised to see the likes of A-Rod, Reggie Bush, Roger Clemens (again), and other athletic icons of their calibur to be in the 'conspiracy theory' surrounding 'illegal' steroids and sports. It's a shame the media provokes people with these senseless allegations. It's like saying you went to a tomato sauce tasting convention and your wife says you've been cheating on her because you come home with red smudges all over your white-collar shirt. Assumptions! People that assume are just making a 'you know what' out of both you and me.

Answer 9

MLB and the MLBPA have agreed to a graduated scale of sanctions for violations of the steroid policy. Read, learn, know.

First time: 50 games.
Second: 100 games.
Third: permanent, with two year moratorium before applying for reinstatement. Applications to be heard by an independent arbitrator and not the commissioner.

Only rash, overreactionary dimwits prefer to jump to the nuclear option immediately.

Answer 10

I knew it. No friggin way that guy got that good so quick. He sucked on the Twins. Now all of a sudden, he's great. Come on. He might be clean, but I don't think he is. He'll get the suspension, but, it'll be one of the biggest suspensions 2 hit baseball.