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'Open warfare' waged among ex-Red Sox medical staff
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10:17 AM ET 02.16 | Allegations that a former Boston Red Sox athletic trainer was illicitly injecting players with the legal pain-killer Toradol appear to be just the latest indicator of what one team source described as "open warfare" between various factions of the team's previous medical staff. The friction that existed for years between former medical director Dr. Thomas Gill and trainer Mike Reinold spilled over into the clubhouse, multiple sources told ESPNBoston.com. Reinold was originally hired as athletic trainer but was given expanded authority until his dismissal after last season. Players took sides not only on Toradol, but other issues. Outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury in 2010 publicly challenged Gill over what he contended was a botched diagnosis of his fractured ribs, while former Red Sox pitcher Jonathan Papelbon said he informed then-general manager Theo Epstein and then-manager Terry Francona he would no longer allow Reinold to work on him. "My thing is that [Reinold] thought he knew everything about everything," Papelbon said. "You couldn't tell him anything. I don't know of any players who thought he was a good trainer." Several players have told ESPNBoston.com that they also refused treatment from Reinold.
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Whether the front office, medical staff or players themselves, it's always something with this team.
.ChiSoxFan.
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The ongoing soap opera continues...
williewilliejuan
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Oh those Rascally Red Socks!
50yearfan
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the red sox medical staff should have to be cleared and replaced from top to bottom,,unless the franchise would like to have more injuries to be able to use more secondary effects,or sideeffects from medications that unstead helping the players to get better, yet still hurting them in other parts of their internal system,bleeding internal is not a simple thing,the damage of the liver is not a simple thing,
alacran
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the medical staff should and most be a very profesionall as medical staff,but should they still prescribe the wrong medicine to players??in the long run somebody would be seriously harm i mean it can induce to a death,,,
alacran
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but playing with somebody's life is not fun at all,,,,,
alacran
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the doctors would prescribe something THAT it should cure your illness,but those medications DO HAVE sideffects all of them DO, if the people things medication don't have secondary effects they are completely been mocked to said the least,the results are devastated at the end patients had died, all thanks to sideeffects from wrong medication aplyied without farther knowledge in terms of medicine,or medications!!!???!!
alacran
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It's like a needle in a Hay Stack!!!!!!
Not4Nutten
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Same SpellCheck used on the article about Youk. :-P
Gotta love the New England melodrama. Keeps their donut-eating sports writers employed.
Hoos Your Daddy
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I don't think the sweat sox and the blowhards at espn can function without self annointed arrogance & drama
drbpor
St Clair Shores, MI
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They got a teammate that's close buddies with A-Roid?
Prayin' Utleys
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Let's bring in an independent Arbitrator, How's Lance Armstrong?
Not4Nutten
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Ells looks like he had a bad burrito for his pre game meal.
THE BISHOP!
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Not a Curt Schilling fan but it has to make you wonder about the comments he made last week in regards to forcing him to use steroids. Based on this article, for the 1st time he just might have been telling the truth.
Yankee0359
Concord , NC
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wiseup: was the RedSox management aware this stuff was going on? If so, was it because a real medical staff would cost a whole lot more? How addictive is Toradol? Boston should fire medical staff. This might explain why RedSox had so many players on DL so much. What else were the medical staff injecting into these players? Is this going on with other teams? So many questions in search of answers. Questions the AMA and MLB should be asking.
wiseup
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