Were teams under Duquette dirty?

Charged — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:59:47 -0000

I found this article over on Boston Dirtdogs, and because they don't allow commenting on their stories, I just wanted to post it over here to get some thoughts and reactions. Lets begin:

Former Sox Infielder Lou Merloni Says the Red Sox,
Under the Previous Regime (Led By Dan Duquette)
Called a Meeting To Have a Doctor Speak to Players
About the Right Way to Use Steroids
(Merloni Did Not Specify the Year the Meeting Took Place)

Sat. May 9, 2009, Lou Merloni on Comcast SportsNet's The Baseball Show: "I'm in spring training, and I got an 8:30-9:00 meeting in the morning. I walk into that office, and this happened while I was with the Boston Red Sox before this last regime, I'm sitting in the meeting. There's a doctor up there and he's talking about steroids, and everyone was like 'here we go, we're gonna sit here and get the whole thing -- they're bad for you.' No. He spins it and says 'you know what, if you take steroids and sit on the couch all winter long, you can actually get stronger than someone who works out clean, if you're going to take steroids, one cycle won't hurt you, abusing steroids it will.' He sat there for one hour and told us how to properly use steroids while I'm with the Boston Red Sox, sitting there with the rest of the organization, and after this I said 'what the heck was that?' And everybody on the team was like 'what was that?' And the response we got was 'well, we know guys are taking it, so we want to make sure they're taking it the right way'... Where did that come from? That didn't come from the Players Association."

Again, the year wasn't mentioned but Merloni was on the Sox from 1998-2003 so it could be any of those years. Why this is important is because, well, in 2001 we signed a big slugging outfielder who was only 29 and he just tested positive for steroids a couple days ago. Boston Dirtdogs asks, do you think this is where Manny began juicing?

Again, all credit goes to the guys over at Boston Dirtdogs.

Thoughts? Opinions?

Red Sox extend offer to Teixeira

Charged — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:47:09 -0000

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081216&content_id=3718580&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos&partnerId=rss_bos

The Boston Herald reported in its Tuesday editions that the Red Sox have extended an offer for Teixeira, believed to be the longest and richest in the seven-year history of the ownership group led by John W. Henry.

Though the newspaper doesn't cite its source, it stated that the offer is "believed to be for at least eight years."

The Red Sox have a club policy of not commenting on their negotiating stance with any free agents.

Looks like we can now confirm that an offer is actually on the table. Hopefully the amounts come in soon.

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Were teams under Duquette dirty?

Former Sox Infielder Lou Merloni Says the Red Sox, Under the Previous Regime (Led By Dan Duquette)Called a Meeting To Have a Doctor Speak to Players About the Right Way to Use Steroids(Merloni Did Not Specify the Year the Meeting Took Place)

Red Sox extend offer to Teixeira

Former Sox Infielder Lou Merloni Says the Red Sox,
Under the Previous Regime (Led By Dan Duquette)
Called a Meeting To Have a Doctor Speak to Players
About the Right Way to Use Steroids
(Merloni Did Not Specify the Year the Meeting Took Place)