Here Is A Suggestion - Drink Your Face Off This Weekend

Its the weekend! Get your asses out of the office and drink up!

Hey, if these Lego's can get fucked up then you can too!

2004 World Champs* Add Another User to the List

ESPN - Arroyo, who pitched for the Red Sox from 2003 to 2005, said he took androstenedione, which was banned in 2004, as well as amphetamines, which were banned in 2006, according to the Herald report. He said he gave up taking andro, a steroid precursor, when a rumor spread through baseball that due to lax production standards, some of it was laced with steroids.
Mandatory testing for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball began in 2004.

"Before 2004, none of us paid any attention to anything we took," he said, according to the Herald. "Now they don't want us to take anything unless it's approved. But back then, who knows what was in stuff? The FDA wasn't regulating stuff, not unless it was killing people or people were dying from it."

Arroyo said he started taking taking andro after 1998, after a season with the Pirates' Double-A affiliate. "Andro made me feel great, I felt like a monster. I felt like I could jump and hit my head on the basketball rim," he said, according to the report.

Add another one. Bronson Arroyo of the 2004 Curse Breaking Sox* admits he won't be surprised if he is on the list of 104. Cheers to Bronson for coming out now to try and diffuse the situation, but I am not buying the "before 2004, none of us paid any attention to anything we took." Really? You didn't know? Your body is your business, your lifeline, your office, your meal ticket, yet you don't know what your putting in it? This defense failed miserably when Bonds and Sheff tried it. It's not gonna work here either. Tainted Town, USA adds another resident.

Final Freak Out

Oh Steven, the final instalment of your freak outs is here. You have entertained us all here at I Really Didn't for an entire week. We thank you. Now for this latest freak out, Steven goes berserk over faulty microwave. But hey, I would want my turkey breast and gravy too, just not from a TV Dinner. For as big as this house is and as many sweet ass rides they have, this family is pretty trashy. And don't get me started on Steven's parents. If I was his father I would beat his ass. Kid takes a bat to a truck: beat his ass. Kid screams at my wife all day: beat his ass. Kid trashes a microwave: beat his ass. Kid destroys my guitar: I would fuck him up. As my dad would say, "I brought you into this world and I can take you out." But poor Steven isn't my kid, (thank fucking god) and so, his tantrums like a little fag boy crying over everything is hilarious to all of us here. This kid doesn't need a hug, he needs a straight jacket. Lets hope his brother continues to film his tirades though, cause its pure entertainment.

Bravo Steven. You may never get laid again, but you have made millions laugh. That's got to count for something right? Right? On second thought, naw, this kid is screwed for life.

Drinking Time!

Leave your offices bitches!

TAINTED TOWN***, USA

Manny 2004 WS MVP (PEDs), Rodny Harrison (Roids), Papi 2004 ALCS MVP (PEDs), Bellicheat (Spygate)

Ladies and Gentleman, your Boston Sports Heros.

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TAINTED LOVE

BIG DOPEY

"Remember last night when I gave you that shot of PED's in your ass? I love you for that."

NY Times - Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, the sluggers who propelled the Boston Red Sox to end an 86-year World Series championship drought and to capture another title three years later, were among the roughly 100 Major League Baseball players to test positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the results.

David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez propelled the Boston Red Sox to two World Series titles. Both tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.

Some of baseball’s most cherished storylines of the past decade have been tainted by performance-enhancing drugs, including the accomplishments of record-setting home run hitters and dominating pitchers. Now, players with Boston’s championship teams of 2004 and 2007 have also been linked to doping.

Baseball first tested for steroids in 2003, and the results from that season were supposed to remain anonymous. But for reasons that have never been made clear, the results were never destroyed and the first batch of positives has come to be known among fans and people in baseball as “the list.” The information was later seized by federal agents investigating the distribution of performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes, and the test results remain the subject of litigation between the baseball players union and the government.

Five others have been tied to positive tests from that year: Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Jason Grimsley and David Segui. Bonds, baseball’s career home runs leader, was not on the original list, although federal agents seized his 2003 sample and had it retested. Those results showed the presence of steroids, according to court documents.

The information about Ramirez and Ortiz emerged through interviews with multiple lawyers and others connected to the pending litigation. The lawyers spoke anonymously because the testing information is under seal by a court order. The lawyers did not identify which drugs were detected.

Unlike Ramirez, who recently served a 50-game suspension for violating baseball’s drug policy, Ortiz had not previously been linked to performance-enhancing substances.

Scott Boras, the agent for Ramirez, would not comment Thursday.

Asked about the 2003 drug test on Thursday in Boston, Ortiz shrugged. “I’m not talking about that anymore,” he said. “I have no comment.”

The union has argued that the government illegally seized the 2003 test results, and judges at various levels of the federal court system have weighed whether the government can keep them. The government hopes to question every player on the list to determine where the drugs came from. An appeals court is deliberating the matter, and the losing side is likely to appeal to the United States Supreme Court.

A spokesman for the United States attorney’s office for the Northern District of California, which seized the tests, declined to comment on Thursday. Michael Weiner, the general counsel for the players union, also declined to comment.

One by one, the names of elite players tied to performance-enhancing drugs have surfaced this year. In February, it was Rodriguez and Bonds. In May, it was Ramirez — for the first time. In June, it was Sosa.

Rodriguez had been viewed by some as a clean player who could eventually overtake the career home run record established by Bonds, who had been linked to possible drug use through the federal investigation. Rodriguez subsequently admitted that he used a performance-enhancing substance from 2001 to 2003.

The Times reported in June that Sosa was among those who tested positive in 2003, the first time he had been publicly tied to performance-enhancing drugs. Sosa became a national figure with the Chicago Cubs in 1998, when he and Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals engaged in a celebrated race to overtake Roger Maris’s single-season home run record of 61. McGwire’s image suffered tremendously when, at a Congressional hearing in 2005, he refused to answer questions about steroid use.

By 2003, Ramirez had long since established himself as one of baseball’s best hitters. Ortiz, however, was less known. In 2002, the Minnesota Twins effectively cut him after failing to trade him. He signed a bargain contract with the Red Sox and began the 2003 season as a backup.

Ortiz quickly blossomed, setting personal highs in home runs (31) and runs batted in (101). He surpassed those numbers in each of the next four seasons.

Ramirez, with his dreadlocks and quirky behavior, and Ortiz, with his gregarious personality and portly build, formed a dynamic tandem on and off the field. They seemed to feed off each other — not to mention demoralize opponents — by hitting back-to-back in the heart of the lineup.

In 2004, they helped the Red Sox overcome a 3-0 series deficit against the Yankees in the American League Championship Series. The Red Sox then swept the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series to end decades of heartbreak in Boston. Ortiz had a game-winning home run and a game-winning hit against the Yankees and was named the most valuable player of that series. Ramirez was named the World Series M.V.P. after going 7 for 17 at the plate with a home run.

Three years after winning that first title, Ramirez and Ortiz returned Boston to another World Series, where they defeated the Colorado Rockies.

The pairing was split last season when the Red Sox traded Ramirez to the Los Angeles Dodgers after team officials grew concerned that he was not playing hard in response to a contract dispute. In Los Angeles, Ramirez took off again, becoming popular among the fans and leading the Dodgers to the playoffs.

But Ramirez’s hero status in Los Angeles took a hit in May when he was suspended after baseball officials learned that he had been prescribed a fertility drug often used by bodybuilders after they stopped using steroids. When Ramirez was suspended, he issued a statement that appeared to maneuver around his 2003 test results.

“I do want to say one other thing,” Ramirez said. “I’ve taken and passed about 15 drug tests over the past five seasons.”

That five-year period extended back to 2004, which excludes the 2003 test.

Since returning from his suspension, Ramirez has been widely accepted by the home fans. In 48 games this season, he has compiled a .327 average and has hit 11 home runs.

Ortiz, meanwhile, has been in a sharp decline. He had an operation on his wrist last year and missed nearly a third of the season. He started this year in a slump and did not hit his first home run until a month and a half into the season. Since June 1, however, he has hit 12 more home runs.

In 2007, Ortiz said that he used to buy a protein shake in the Dominican Republic when he was younger and did not know if it contained a performance-enhancing drug.

“I don’t do that anymore because they don’t have the approval for that here, so I know that, so I’m off buying things at the GNC back in the Dominican Republic,” Ortiz told The Boston Herald. He added: “I don’t know if I drank something in my youth, not knowing it.”

In February, he said that players who tested positive for steroids should be suspended for an entire season — about 100 games more than the current policy requires for a first offense.

HOW SWEET IT IS TO DO PEDS WITH YOU!

I am on cloud 1918.

But this news isn't shocking. It's liberating. Did anyone know who Ortiz was when he was flat out RELEASED from the twins? Is it a coincidence that he become All-World when he hooks up with Manny...and as soon as Manny and his PEDs leave Big Papi turns into Big Floppy?

Just a reminder, the 2004 Boston Red Sox World Series MVP: Cheater. The 2004 Boston Red Sox Clutch Hitter who single handily got them into the World Series: Cheater. The curse of the Bambino: Broken by Cheaters.

Its odd how both Papi and Manny were not listed in the Mitchel Report. Mitchel must have really done his due diligence. I mean he is on the Red Sox fucking board and can't find two major superstars right under his nose? Please.

I am just gonna sit back and let this story develop while I smile the the Cheshire Cat.

Hey Sox fans - I hope the fall from your high horse doesn't hurt too much.