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It's exactly what we didn't want to hear: The New York Times says that two of the names on that mysterious 2003 list of baseball players who tested positive for PEDs were our big sluggers, Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. We know, of course, that Manny just served a 50-game suspension in L.A. for being caught with something; we'd never heard anything about Ortiz other than blanket suspicion and whispers. This isn't good, though.
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I REALLY hate to say I'm not totally surprised by this, but I'm not. :(
Did any of you boston douchebags really believe that that mediocre team of misfits was capable of winning without cheating?
Curse, no curse, it doesn't really matter - Boston still Sucks.
Somebody needs a hug.
With each new revelation, the shock of steroids is becoming less and less alarming for me. It might be that 2003 was so long ago, or it might be that the ubiquity of steroids has made the controversy sort of moot.
Coworker: It was just all so magical, and as a baseball fan, you want to believe in that.
Me: Well, [Papi's] opponents were all juiced, too, so the magic was real, relatively speaking.
It seems like we're going to live in the world described here by statistics whiz, Sox front office consultant, and rabid steroids speculator Bill James. A world where steroids are kind of meh.
No surprise, really. But, Papi's reported reply of "I'm not talking about that anymore" may not be sufficient to deal with the news.