Big Papi tained like the rest

[El Kabong]

Hey Lyle hope your proud that your 2 superstar clutch players in the WS were roided chemically enhanced disgraces

I was wondering when this was going to find it's way onto the site.

Yeah, you're SOOOO right JT, it's a damn shame that the clean players on the 2004 Yankees didn't get a shot to win the World Series, guys like: Gary Sheffield, Jason Giambi, Alex Rodriguez, Kevin Brown. It's not like the Sox were playing other clean teams, I think like Peter Gammons said, every Champion since 1989 probably had at least 1 juicer on their team.

This is just the era we live in...sure I'm disappointed in the results, but hell I wouldn't be shocked if any of the following current and former players used illegal substances: Ricky Henderson (he played with Big Mac and Jose and he was the FIRST power lead off hitter), Cal Ripkin (he's good buddies with Brady "I'll hit 50 HR's one year and never more than 20 any other year" Anderson), Mariano Rivera, Pedro Martinez, Albert Pujols, Evan Longoria, Albert Belle, Frank Thomas, Matt Williams, etc....I mean everything says guys are guilty these days, if they are injury prone like Griffey Jr., if they never get injured like Cal, if they are great as they get older like Nolan Ryan, if they start hitting better for seemingly no reason like Papi did then of course there will be questions and sometimes the answers aren't going to be all that great.

All Papi can do right now is just focus on winning and do it clean from now on.

[OumaFan]

If Mitchell had the list he would have implicated A-Rod too. Or maybe he had the list and couldn't implicate anybody because it wasn't really a test. Either way, he's a serious guy, he negotiated peace agreements in Northern Ireland of all things, I seriously doubt he's gonna sully his legacy just by ignoring Red Sox names on a positive test list.

Anyway I've gotten cynical about the whole thing, the year they came back from 3-1 to beat the Yankees and win the World Series they just had a better team of cheaters than the Yankees did.

[El Kabong]

Well if you're looking for somebody to blame, blame BUD SELIG, he turned a blind eye to this because he wanted the fans to come back to baseball after the strike. He could have ended it any time he wanted to....also the MLBPA shares blame because they dragged their feet to get testing in the MLB.