David Ortiz Is a Punk and a Disgrace to Baseball

So, here's the deal. Steroids are bad blah blah blah. Everybody knows that steroids shouldn't be in Major League Baseball and the MLB is currently doing their best to get their game clean again. The reason for this is not because a few players took steroids in the early 90's, it is because a shit ton of players took steroids in the early 90's. When David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez reportedly tested positive for steroids in 1993, they were part of a list of 100-plus players that also tested positive - that's a lot of players from a lot of different teams. So to say the Red Sox championship is tainted is bullshit, however, the legacy of two of its big stars may be tainted forever.

Ramirez is a steroid user and continues to be a steroid user as evidenced by his 50-game suspension this season while a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Nobody gives a shit about Manny because he never denied using steroids. The big story is Ortiz because he declared himself clean. He even argued that those found on steroids should be banned from the game for a year. The reason is because he is now off the juice and as a result can't hit shit.

I have always had my suspicions about Ortiz and his steroid use, and I even wrote a piece on it earlier this year. It was pretty obvious when a sub-par hitter that couldn't turn on an inside fastball in Minnesota becomes a monster of a hitter that can turn on an inside pitch like the best of them when he started playing for the Red Sox. Since the MLB has upped its drug testing, Ortiz all of a sudden can't hit the inside fastball and ironically makes endless statements about not being a user and how it would bring disgrace to his family's name and all that nonsense.

The reason he said all those lies is because that list of 100-plus players that tested positive was supposed to be destroyed and he never thought his name would get out. That list should have been destroyed and it is a real shame it wasn't destroyed. All the players that were on that list were lied to, and it is a real shitty situation for those players and the MLB as a whole.

I feel bad for every player on that list except for Ortiz. He either should have admitted to using them while they weren't banned, or he should have kept his damn mouth shut. Nobody likes it when a hypocrite makes bold statements and Big Papi opened up a whole bag of trouble that he will carry on his back for the rest of his career.