Report: Big Papi, Manny test positive for PEDs in 2003
According to a report by the New York Times, David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.
Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, the sluggers who propelled the Boston Red Sox to end an 86-year World Series championship drought and to capture another title three years later, were among the roughly 100 Major League Baseball players to test positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the results.
The information about Ramirez and Ortiz emerged through interviews with multiple lawyers and others connected to the pending litigation. The lawyers spoke anonymously because the testing information is under seal by a court order. The lawyers did not identify which drugs were detected.
Unlike Ramirez, who recently served a 50-game suspension for violating baseball’s drug policy, Ortiz had not previously been linked to performance-enhancing substances.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone who has followed baseball over the past decade. When Manny was suspended for 50 games for testing positive for a woman’s fertility drug often used to mask the use of steroids, you would have had to been naive to think that he wasn’t on something. And considering Big Papi admitted back in February that he works out at the gym of suspected steroids supplier Angel Presinal, nobody should be surprised that his name is on the ’03 list either.
Bud Selig needs to get with the player’s union immediately and discuss releasing the rest of the names on that list. Ramirez, Ortiz, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Sammy Sosa have already been outed and baseball should just do itself a favor by releasing the rest of the names. Because guess what? The names will come out, whether it’s one at a time, two at a time, etc.
But the union will never allow it. They’ll continue to believe that this situation will eventually go away and that the fans will someday rejoice and call baseball “America’s Game” again. But we won’t. We know the game was tainted for over a decade and the accomplishments of Bonds, Sosa, McGwire, Ramirez and Ortiz mean very little because they had help. The union, the owners, the players and everyone else in Major League Baseball is fooling themselves if they believe more names aren’t going to come out.
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This brings up the question, why are none of these guys testing positive now? To your your phrase Anthony, you’d have to be naive to believe they all stopped using once baseball instituted their drug policy. Something just isn’t right…100+ guys test positive in 2003, many of whom are the biggest stars in the game, yet today, barely a handful come back positive?
Either way…as so many a Redsox fan has told me about the Yankees championships with Roger Clemens on the roster….YOUR RINGS ARE TAINTED, REDSOX NATION!! You can’t have it one way and not the other!!
Well – can we agree now that the Red Sox world series titles were tainted? Their two best players – the core of their team – were cheating.
Yes, we can agree becuase this is how the Red Sox Nation wanted it. Now you have it too. The rumors are over, Popi doesn’t need glasses, he needs a B12 shot from Manny.
I personally think that it’s time to release the entire list and let’s get it over with. I further agree with Bob Costas that this is documented as the steriod era and stop trying to protect the few that didn’t.
If they weren’t doing it, they new who was and did nothing about it.
What does Curt Shilling have to say about this?