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With the Yankees enduring an epic losing streak, with Boston of all teams in the Bronx, we'd like to take mental refuge in the good fortunes of the first-place Mets. Unfortunately, we are reading about the Amazins' batboy dealing speed and 'roids in the Shea clubhouse? It's a poorly kept secret that the World Series Champions '86 Mets were partakers of recreational drugs. That was more than 20 years ago and it was 1986, not that poor behavior is completely excusable. But all that alleged drug consumption was supposed to be performance inhibiting, not enhancing. Now we read that a former Mets batboy plead guilty to distributing anabolic steroids and amphetamines after ending his tenure as a clubhouse employee.
Kirk Radomski, 37, who worked as a bat boy, equipment manager and clubhouse assistant for the Mets from 1985-95, admitted to selling banned drugs, including anabolic steroids, amphetamines and human growth hormone, from 1995 through 2005, according to a plea agreement filed in the United States District Court in the Northern District of California. Mr. Radomski, who listed himself as a personal trainer on recent tax returns, also pleaded guilty to laundering the money from the drug transactions. The two felony charges carry sentences of up to 25 years in prison and a maximum of $500,000 in fines.
If Radomski is 37 now, then he would've been sixteen years old when the Mets won their last World Championship in 1986. Barely to his or the team's credit, he wouldn't start dealing drugs to players for another nine years. Radomski has plead guilty to drug-dealing charges and is cooperating with the league's investigation into the use of steroids by its players.
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OK, now why are you showing a picture of David Wright here? The dude who gave out the roids was doing it more than a decade ago - when David was still just a teenager with a dream of making the majors one day. Just because he's in a slump this spring doesn't mean he took the roids in the past...
Geez, did the writer of this entry even read the wire stories before publishing this? Or is his reading comprehension impaired? Or perhaps he is just a poor downtrodden Yankees fan looking for any ray of light to disparage the Mets, even if unfairly?
If he had read the wire stories, he would have known that contrary to his post, Radomski did NOT plead guilty to distributing *while an employee* of the Mets. He pleaded guilty to doing so only during the years AFTER he had left the Mets -- from 1995 to 2005. While the author may think this error of his is inconsequential, it is not.
It completely escaped the author that Radomski had left the Mets by the time he started dealing. Shame on you, Gothamist!
--FLGM
You guys read the gothamist for sports stories? what a bunch of pussies
We all know the hypocracy that Bud "The Team Stealer" Selig (just look into how the Brewers were sleazed into existance) is going to have by lavishing all sorts of positive attention onto Barry "Steroids" Bonds when, he with the obvious (to anyone with an IQ higher than 0) help of something that he shouldn't be taking, [allegedly] breaks Hank Aaron's home run record.
Bonds should be banned for baseball for life, since he and other cheaters has done more harm than Pete Rose ever did betting on his team to win. Hell, having the manager to bet on the team to win sounds more like something that would inspire the team than anything else.