Oy. More Red Sox steroid stuff. Take it, Boston Globe:
Major League Baseball opened an
investigation into performance-enhancing drugs inside the Red Sox
clubhouse at the height of last year’s pennant race after two members
of the team’s security staff were implicated in steroid use.
The
security staffers said they were dismissed after what they termed a
cursory inquiry by Major League Baseball, and very limited questioning
by the team – even though one of the guards says he swapped advice
about steroids with David Ortiz’s close friend and personal assistant.
The men in question are Nicholas Alex Cyr, 27, and Jared Remy,
30, son of Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy. The league began an
investigation after a vial of steroids was confiscated from Cyr’s car
last July. Cyr claimed that he bought the steroids from Remy. Both men
say they have no direct knowledge of steroid use by Red Sox players,
including David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, whose names were leaked from
the infamous 2003 doping list by the New York Times this week.
That said, Remy didn’t find the team’s investigation all that thorough:
“I’m
sure they were hoping I didn’t know anything. It’s like they didn’t
want to know. It’s like: Do we really want to know or do we just want
it to go away?”
Just because these two losers used steroids doesn’t necessarily mean
anything, but the fact that they had such close access to the players,
including running errands in Ramirez’s car, should be alarming.
