Ortiz is innocent because he says he is, which is far and away the best defense anyone’s come up with yet.Don’t look now, but the Boston Red Sox open the 2017 season at Fenway Park in just ten days. We’re still waiting for that update, but Phil Rogers absolutely isn’t. "Back in 2009, Ortiz said he would look into his failed test to determine what happened, but he’s yet to provide a follow-up." It’s Cancel Culture.Īs the writer of this particular CBS Sports article, Mike Axisa, continued: Nobody came to me ever, to tell me that I tested positive for any kind of steroids.”" Nobody came to me after, nobody came to me before. And no one from Boston … This was just something that leaked out of New York and they had zero explanation about it … Everybody who got caught, all of them were told what they bought, what they used, everything. "“What was the reason for them to come out with something like that? The only thing that I can think of, to be honest with you, a lot of big guys from the Yankees were being caught. Here’s what Ortiz had to say, word for word, in a 2017 interview about this supposed New York-based tension that caused his name to leak: The bias is coming from inside the Green Monster. We also can’t forget Ortiz’s rich commentary on “Yankee Bias,” ignoring the fact that George Mitchell of Mitchell Report fame was the director of the Boston Red Sox. Say what you will about Ortiz and his potentially faulty positive, but he objectively a very poor job defending himself, basically tossing out the OJ defense claiming he was still out here looking for the real steroid (he never found it, then stopped looking immediately). ![]() So much like his play at 1B, Ortiz's defense is trash lol - Emily Nyman DecemOne writer’s excuse for voting for David Ortiz for the Baseball Hall of Fame is so, so flimsy. But Ortiz’s defense was incomplete, incoherent and cloying.įor those wondering what tf Phil is talking about, Ortiz defended himself by saying the leaked results in the NYT was a NY conspiracy against him bc he was on the red sox and "too many yankees had tested positive"□ Perhaps he was “best” only in comparison to Rodriguez, who fell flat on his face and reportedly peed on somebody’s carpet once. ![]() Again, I’d vote for Papi for all of these reasons he’s one of the game’s upper echelon greats, and I’d also vote for Bonds, Rodriguez, Roger Clemens and Manny Ramirez.īut please, if you’re going to vote for Ortiz, don’t say it’s because he did the best job defending himself against the accusations of anyone listed above. You’re willing to overlook indiscretions in favor of placing the very best players in the Hall - and Ortiz smacked 541 homers with a 141 career OPS+. You don’t believe in excluding players for one positive PED test (something, by the way, Barry Bonds never received in a round of MLB testing). Valid arguments for Ortiz? You don’t believe in the 2003 survey testing as ironclad. Can’t argue with knocking A-Rod.īut if you’re going to make that decision, please don’t feed us the same level of nonsense Phil Rogers, formerly of MLB.com, just did.Īt least put logic and reason on the spoon before you shove it in our mouths, or just admit you like Ortiz and not the other guys. You want to differentiate Ortiz’s case from Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, considering Rodriguez’s positive tests piled up over the years and resulted in suspensions and nasty lawsuits, while Ortiz only provided us with the singular blemish? Fine. It’s extremely difficult to tell the story of baseball for the past 20 years without mentioning Ortiz’s name, as much as I might want to. Vote David Ortiz into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. You want to vote David Ortiz into the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot? Fine.
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