MIAMI Reigning NL batting champion Dee Gordon of the Miami Marlins says he unknowingly took the performance-enhancing drugs that led to his 80-game suspension, but hell accept the penalty.
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“The hardest part about this is feeling that I have let down my teammates, the organization, and the fans”, Gordon said in his statement. Major League Baseball announced the suspension after the Marlins’ victory in Los Angeles, saying that Gordon had tested positive for exogenous testosterone and clostebol. He’s behind in the count.
The fleet-footed Gordon won the National League batting title by hitting.
There were moods aplenty in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ clubhouse Friday, one day after the Miami Marlins’ Dee Gordon tested positive for multiple performance-enhancing substances in his system.
Gordon was not available for comment after the startling late-night announcement.
Marlins team president David Samson told reporters after the game that the team had been informed of Gordon’s decision Thursday but did not make it clear whether that was before or after the game. I know that also, “Geez, I didn’t know what I was taking” – we’ll you’ve got to find out.
And after a hardy game of touch football one of the frat brothers tells him how it’s great to have him back around.
Gordon’s suspension, though, comes a week after Toronto outfielder after Chris Colabello was suspended for 80 games for testing positive for an anabolic steroid. Mattingly took over as Marlins manager prior to this season.
“I texted him last night and talked to him about it and he gave me his side”, Crawford said, declining to go into detail on the conversation.
Gordon dropped his appeal of the suspension after a rare road sweep by the Miami Marlins of his old club, the Los Angeles Dodgers. “That said, it is a huge disappointment and a huge loss for our team”. I’ve known him so long.
Gordon’s first four major league seasons came under Mattingly with the Dodgers.
He also shared the fact of which he was “shocked”, while saying, “You love your kids, and that’s Dee, for me”, before noting that the business of baseball is another matter, and the team will need to “move forward”.
Bonds, the leading home run hitter in Major League Baseball history, has seen his Hall of Fame chances clouded under suspicion of using PEDs.
Bob Fessler, of Lamar Advertising, says the cutout was found Friday morning in good condition in a weedy area near the billboard that had been searched previously.
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Despite witnessing multiple positive tests for PEDs this year, Roberts would like to believe that the game is cleaner now than it was in his playing days. “You shouldn’t be allowed to effect [sic] games while appealing”.
