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Report: Cabrera created fake website, product to avoid drug suspension
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09:23 AM ET 08.19 | In a bizarre attempt to avoid a 50-game drug suspension, San Francisco Giants star Melky Cabrera created a fictitious website and a nonexistent product designed to prove he inadvertently took the banned substance that caused a positive test under Major League Baseball's drug program. But instead of exonerating Cabrera of steroid use, the Internet stunt trapped him in a web of lies. Amid the information-gathering phase of his doping case last month, his cover story unraveled quickly, and what might have been a simple suspension has attracted further attention from federal investigators and MLB, the Daily News has learned. Famed steroid cop Jeff Novitzky, a criminal investigative agent for the Food & Drug Administration, and agents from MLB's Department of Investigation have begun looking into Cabrera's associates and his entourage, including trainers, handlers and agents, as they search for the source of the synthetic testosterone that appeared in a sample of the All-Star Game MVP's urine. The idea, apparently, was to lay a trail of digital breadcrumbs suggesting Cabrera had ordered a supplement that ended up causing the positive test, and to rely on a clause in the collectively bargained drug program that allows a player who has tested positive to attempt to prove he ingested a banned substance through no fault of his own.
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Cheaters Never Prosper, Bro.
I Love LA
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As funny as another Giant being the home run king.
Hatrunner
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Shame on You Melky!!! You've labeled yourself forever!!
Not4Nutten
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Melky, Melky, Melky....
williewilliejuan
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He's not gonna qualify for it. Need 502 ABs, he only has 459.
Joey C13
Macedon , NY
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It's PA, not AB. He has 501. Under the "Tony Gwynn rule", they give him one out (as though he got an out in his 502nd PA) and he qualifies.
williewilliejuan
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Since Melky has tried to make a **** out of MLB and their drug testing program, it is fitting for MLB to let him watch the whole 13 season in street clothes or maybe prison uniforms.
toad
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He can't. He won't qualify for it. Need 502 ABs to be eligible, he only had 459.
Joey C13
Macedon , NY
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Stay hot Andrew.
hbomb
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There is the batting title, AND what about the All Star game? Is that not a tainted affair?
50yearfan
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I get tired of the attempts at cheating by these guys. Fifty games apparently isn't that big a deal to some of them. Also, it didn't help that Ryan Braun got out of his punishment.
Make the first offense an 81-game suspension, and the second one a 162-game penalty. See if that helps.
...the best policy
Harrodsburg, KY
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Reward>risk.
Melky cost himself big money by getting caught, but what if he didn't get caught?
hbomb
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America's game?
hbomb
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what about the all-star game? is that bogus too?
Big Yank Fan
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He once played with ARod, right? just sayin
coachvh
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Just another of the SF Juicers to get caught. They should change the random testing to mandatory bi-weekly testing, and make the first offense a full season, the second offense a lifetime ban and loss of pension.
Alcindor
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