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David Ortiz: MLB players are dumbest in sports
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06:33 PM ET 02.14 | David Ortiz was speaking openly about the issues facing professional baseball and, as you would expect, the topic of steroids in the sport, including the recent Biogenesis scandal. Ortiz was speaking with Sean McAdam of CSNNE.com when he let out this incredible gem: "When I first heard about [players being linked to the clinic]," Ortiz said. "I started saying that us, as baseball players, we pretty much might be the dumbest athletes of all the sports because there's a history of players doing things like that and later on getting caught. We're talking about six or seven years. So how come in 2011 or 2012, there are players still being caught in the same situation?" Ortiz has a very valid point. There isn't another sport out there that faces as many questions about performing enhancing drugs as baseball and a lot of it has to do with the arrogance and ignorance of the players.
David Ortiz, Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
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says the dumbazz!
Be My Neighbor
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How much did getting caught cost Melky? Not as much as doing the steroids made him. They same can be said for many of the steroid users. They do it because it works and it makes them truck loads of cash. That doesn't mean they are stupid. It means they are greedy and don't mind breaking the rules and getting caught once in a while.
CardsFan2
Saint Louis , MO
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Wait, if Big Papi is saying this, what does that make him? The spokesperson for dumb MLB players? Not sure I would want that title.
John Daly's Liver
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arrogance maybe,,ignorance??doubtfull,,plus ORTIZ shouldn't opened his mouth,or is he asking for trouble all along??
alacran
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i mean he has a tail to be step in,,as he knows very well,,he is not clean at all,,,
alacran
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That's right alacran. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
THE BISHOP!
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Really, he ought to keep his head down and take his swings four times a game.
dkredsox1
Aarhus, DK
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Good one.
Like being mayor of the trailer park.
dkredsox1
Aarhus, DK
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He who smelt it, dealt it...
Nando Tater
Cottage Hills , IL
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To me the dumbest players in sports are NBA players, most sail right through high school , one year enrolled in college, and they learned is how to shoot and sign those big contracts.
toad
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Maybe in Boston, but not everywhere...
slipped on a peeling
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It takes one to know one... and Papi fits that bill. I could not agree more.
h2opololpunk
Gainesville, FL
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Papi...just shut up and play.
...the best policy
Harrodsburg, KY
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Wow. And you're making a comment on the dumbest athletes?
...the best policy
Harrodsburg, KY
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yup
LittleE~BigMT fan
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He's probably right! Most of them don't go to College!!!
Not4Nutten
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