Big Papi Update

To revisit my earlier post about David Ortiz, it looks like with the recent news that he tested positive in 2003 that I was correct. I don't feel great about this because I know that I'm not the only one that guessed this. It was pretty obvious. So where do we go from here with those players that have been outed and those not yet outed?

To date, A-Rod, Manny, and Ortiz have been linked to the infamous "anonymous" drug testing from 2003. And honestly, the news isn't surprising. A-rod was killing the ball ever since 2000, hitting 50 plus HR for the Texas Rangers. Although he was a great player in Seattle, in Texas he became legendary. He won a couple MVP awards with the perennial last place Rangers solely because of his incredible power numbers. While he was doing this, did people suspect he was juicing? Oh yeah, people knew, and people were right.

Manny, like A-rod had always been a great hitter. He had great power in Cleveland and it followed him to Boston. Actually, he brought the "power" with him to Boston. And like any good teammate, he shared it with his buddies, namely David Ortiz. Come to think of it, while Manny was mashing in Cleveland, he probably shared some of his female fertility drug with Jim Thome. Thome definitely took steroids. Write it down. Rumor started here at http://www.robert1083.blogspot.com/.

Now we get to Ortiz. A crappy hitter and a crappy defender until he met up with Manny. Then he was just a crappy defender with a oblong head like Stewie from Family Guy. He gets outed in the NY Times last week and now tons of Boston Fans are pissed off. Looks like that 2004 Championship isn't legit. Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Boston won that year fair and square because the other teams they beat we probably taking just as many PEDs. Not more PEDs, heavens no. Nobody took more steroids than the Red Sox. But the teams they beat were definitely juicing.

So who's the next player to be named for a positive test back in 2003? Bronson Arroyo seems to think it will be him.
http://www.courant.com/sports/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-bbn-reds-arroyo,0,5821727.story
What kind of admission of guilt or non-guilt is this? "Oh man, if Manny and Ortiz were named, I'm not sure I won't be named..." What are you saying Bronson? Are you saying that if those two could test positive anybody could? Are you saying that everybody in the Sawx clubhouse was taking the same stuff? Huh?


My real question to Senor Arroyo is, why do you think you will be named next? That's pretty brash of you to think in the lineage of great players of 2003 it would go A-Rod, Manny, Ortiz,....Arroyo? Excuse me? I mean, seriously there has got to be another 200 players to be named before you. You sucked! Was it the steroids that helped you get that 4.03 ERA in 2004? You have to like his strategy though. A forgotten pitcher tries to resurrect his legacy by injecting his name into the steroid talks with the likes of the greatest hitters of the era. Well played, but I don't think anybody is buying. People will remember Arroyo for his cornrows, ballerina leg kick, girl arms, and mega-crappy music career. Not for being a good pitcher. Sorry, brah.


Bronson Arroyo, ladies and gentlemen.