Shame on Big Bappi and of course ALL of MLB

I remember where I was when I heard it. Driving around Columbus, OH looking for a good place to buy NES and SNES games I heard something I wasn't quite sure how to react to: Big Papi, once one of my favorite players, calling out steroid users in baseball and saying anyone who tests positive should be suspended 1 year off the bat. Don't remember that, well the world wide leader is sports ESPN can refresh your memory. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2009/news/story?id=3911153

When I heard this I didn't know how to react because as much as I loved Ortiz, I always wondered just a little bit because of the numbers he put up. I wanted to believe him, and after hearing what he said I figured he was telling the truth....well unfortunately for him he was not. Now I can't respect him. If he had admitted it or even just shut up about it that would be different, but to call for a 1 year suspension when he used is hypocritical. I am now glad I dropped a ball he threw me over the Baggie in Right Field at the Dome.

Its hard to tell how good he would have been, after all his last year as a Twin he hit 20 home runs in I believe only about 2/3 of a season. However as we learned from many players recovery time is one of the biggest reasons players cheated, and he was injury prone early in his career. Funny, once again he is injury prone, but this time he doesn't have PED's to help.

I know he wasn't the only player to cheat, but he called others out for the same thing he did.

Still think he should have been MVP??? I don't.