For someone who has only now been revealed as a drug cheat, David Ortiz sure has the patter down. (That’s him at left above in happier days with fellow juicer Manny Ramirez.)
News he was on the list of Major League Baseball players who tested positive for banned substances in 2003 “blindsided” him, he said after Thursday’s afternoon’s 8-5 Boston win over Baltimore. He can’t comment until he gets “to the bottom of this.”
Lovely.
And the gi-normous sunglasses he used to prevent us from seeing his eyes as he spoke — nice touch.
And it’s not just the patter and the look he has down — he’s also got the strategy. Keep hitting game-changing home runs for the Red Sox, David, and no one in Beantown will even care about your use of banned substances, or your lies. After all, Yankee lovers are giving A-Rod a pass — 19 homers in 247 at-bats will make fans do that.
As for your search “for answers,” let me posit for a possible one: You’re a drug cheat and you got caught. Period.
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Either I'm too tied up with my own career and don't pay attention to this issue anymore or I'm a realist and this is not shocking to me anymore. Anyone who looks at David Ortiz or Manny Ramirez or the other handful of names that have come to light in this scandal are not at all surprised. We as fans, I believe, have become numb to the steroid story. We just want to move on. Shocking would be to find out someone like a Barry Larkin, Ken Griffey, JR. or Cal Ripken were using during this period. The last person that surprised me with steroid use was Roger Clemens because no one was really focusing on pitchers. I think it serves a purpose that all the names come to light but it doesn't shock me at all the names that are out there. It's time for baseball to move on and I believe as the Ramirez's and Ortiz's get to retirement age baseball will do so. The only thing left to shock me would be how the baseball writers of America treat these individuals when it comes to Hall of Fame voting. I still have an ounce of optimism left that even these writers won't let the accused individuals of this era into the Hall of Fame.
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