Was this the "explanation" Raffy promised us? Saying that he might have tested positive for steroids due to a shot given to him by Orioles teamate Miguel Tejada. Tejada has admitted to giving Raffy a shot of the vitamin B-12. MLB has cleared Tejada of any wrongdoing.
Palmero is looking a lot like his buddy Jose Canseco. Weak.
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By Mike Celizic
NBCSports.com contributor
Updated: 12:46 p.m. ET Sept. 23, 2005
Mike Celizic
Of all the penthouse-to-outhouse trips in the history of sports, it’s hard to think of one more precipitous and bizarre than that taken by Rafael Palmiero.
He’s finished, through, done, history. Whatever chance he had of recovering from being caught with steroids in his system after waving his finger at a congressional subcommittee while denying ever using drugs is gone.
Forget the Hall of Fame. Forget playing again. Forget commercial endorsements. Forget being invited to autograph shows.
Back in July, when he became just the fourth player in history with 3,000 hits and 500 home runs, Palmiero was as high as a player can get. Then came the steroid suspension.
Some suggested there was a chance he could come back from that. But now, with his latest craven act of cowardice, Palmeiro is through. He broke the most hallowed rule in baseball: He tried to blame a teammate for what he did.
Palmiero threw his teammate, Miguel Tejada, under the convoy. Tejada, Palmiero said, once gave him what Tejada said was a vitamin B-12 injection, and that might have been where the steroids came from.
Baseball officials dutifully checked Tejada’s medicine chest and confirmed that the B-12 was just that and nothing more. Tejada, who says he’s been tested three times and is as clean as your grandmother’s guest towels, said he was shocked that Palmiero would implicate him.
I’d be more than shocked if I were Tejada. I’d be outraged that Palmiero, in what is an increasingly desperate and frantic effort to restore an image that has long since been shattered, would dare to blame a teammate who Palmiero has to know is innocent. If Palmiero ever dared to walk into the Orioles’ clubhouse again, he’d better be wearing body armor.
You’d think that blaming a teammate would be the ultimate. But when the story broke about his cowardly act, Palmiero’s lawyer made it even worse by saying his client wasn’t trying to implicate anyone. He was just trying to figure out how those nasty steroids got into his body and felt duty-bound to tell the investigators everything he’d taken or been given.
That excuse is, to steal a phrase from Abraham Lincoln, thinner than a soup made from the shadow of a chicken that was dying of starvation
There isn’t a steroid fairy who comes in the middle of the night and infuses your body with drugs without your knowledge. Steroids don’t show up in your urine by accident. You don’t get false positives for steroids by eating poppy seed rolls. Or taking vitamin B-12 shots.
The only way you get steroids in your body is to put them there.
You can argue that you didn’t know the supplement was loaded, or that your personal trainer gave you something and told you it was safe, so you took it. But you can’t argue that you didn’t take anything, not now or ever, and therefore the positive test is inexplicable.
Palmiero was just another of a large number of players whose power numbers surged in the mid-1990s. He went from a pretty good hitter with occasional power to a very good hitter with major power.
Like everybody else, he said it all came through hard work and clean living. And we might have been able to live with that — baseball, after all, had no prohibition against steroids — had he not swore to tell the truth to Congress and pulled that act with the waving finger and the solemn declaration that he had never used steroids. When he tested positive after that performance, he has some ’splainin’ to do.
Instead of explaining, he dissembled. He didn’t know how it could have happened. He really was clean. He felt terrible about it. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
That was bad enough. The discovery that he tried to blame Tejada is the last straw.
They say you don’t know a person’s true character until he faces adversity. Well, Palmiero has faced adversity, and he’s come up lacking in every way possible. Once known as a nice guy, he’s proved to be a rat and a slimeball, a guy who would try to smear an innocent teammate to save his own worthless butt.
Get out of the game now, Raffy, and stay out. And good luck finding something to do with the rest of your life. I hear O.J. Simpson needs golf partners.
Mike Celizic writes regularly for NBCSports.com and is a freelance writer based in New York.
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By Mike Celizic
NBCSports.com contributor
Updated: 12:46 p.m. ET Sept. 23, 2005
Mike Celizic
Of all the penthouse-to-outhouse trips in the history of sports, it’s hard to think of one more precipitous and bizarre than that taken by Rafael Palmiero.
He’s finished, through, done, history. Whatever chance he had of recovering from being caught with steroids in his system after waving his finger at a congressional subcommittee while denying ever using drugs is gone.
Forget the Hall of Fame. Forget playing again. Forget commercial endorsements. Forget being invited to autograph shows.
Back in July, when he became just the fourth player in history with 3,000 hits and 500 home runs, Palmiero was as high as a player can get. Then came the steroid suspension.
Some suggested there was a chance he could come back from that. But now, with his latest craven act of cowardice, Palmeiro is through. He broke the most hallowed rule in baseball: He tried to blame a teammate for what he did.
Palmiero threw his teammate, Miguel Tejada, under the convoy. Tejada, Palmiero said, once gave him what Tejada said was a vitamin B-12 injection, and that might have been where the steroids came from.
Baseball officials dutifully checked Tejada’s medicine chest and confirmed that the B-12 was just that and nothing more. Tejada, who says he’s been tested three times and is as clean as your grandmother’s guest towels, said he was shocked that Palmiero would implicate him.
I’d be more than shocked if I were Tejada. I’d be outraged that Palmiero, in what is an increasingly desperate and frantic effort to restore an image that has long since been shattered, would dare to blame a teammate who Palmiero has to know is innocent. If Palmiero ever dared to walk into the Orioles’ clubhouse again, he’d better be wearing body armor.
You’d think that blaming a teammate would be the ultimate. But when the story broke about his cowardly act, Palmiero’s lawyer made it even worse by saying his client wasn’t trying to implicate anyone. He was just trying to figure out how those nasty steroids got into his body and felt duty-bound to tell the investigators everything he’d taken or been given.
That excuse is, to steal a phrase from Abraham Lincoln, thinner than a soup made from the shadow of a chicken that was dying of starvation
There isn’t a steroid fairy who comes in the middle of the night and infuses your body with drugs without your knowledge. Steroids don’t show up in your urine by accident. You don’t get false positives for steroids by eating poppy seed rolls. Or taking vitamin B-12 shots.
The only way you get steroids in your body is to put them there.
You can argue that you didn’t know the supplement was loaded, or that your personal trainer gave you something and told you it was safe, so you took it. But you can’t argue that you didn’t take anything, not now or ever, and therefore the positive test is inexplicable.
Palmiero was just another of a large number of players whose power numbers surged in the mid-1990s. He went from a pretty good hitter with occasional power to a very good hitter with major power.
Like everybody else, he said it all came through hard work and clean living. And we might have been able to live with that — baseball, after all, had no prohibition against steroids — had he not swore to tell the truth to Congress and pulled that act with the waving finger and the solemn declaration that he had never used steroids. When he tested positive after that performance, he has some ’splainin’ to do.
Instead of explaining, he dissembled. He didn’t know how it could have happened. He really was clean. He felt terrible about it. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
That was bad enough. The discovery that he tried to blame Tejada is the last straw.
They say you don’t know a person’s true character until he faces adversity. Well, Palmiero has faced adversity, and he’s come up lacking in every way possible. Once known as a nice guy, he’s proved to be a rat and a slimeball, a guy who would try to smear an innocent teammate to save his own worthless butt.
Get out of the game now, Raffy, and stay out. And good luck finding something to do with the rest of your life. I hear O.J. Simpson needs golf partners.
Mike Celizic writes regularly for NBCSports.com and is a freelance writer based in New York.
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