JC Romero Tested Positive Twice for a Banned Substance and Still Pitched in the World Series? Of Course the Phillies Title is Tained
Baseball January 7th. 2009, 5:15pm
JC Romero, a reliever on the Phillies, was 2-0 in the World Series, and didn’t allow a run in 7 2/3 postseason innings. Should he have even been pitching? Probably not, since he tested positive for a banned substance twice, yet still was allowed to help Philadelphia defeat Tampa Bay for the title. MLB says it didn’t want him to pitch in the World Series. Likely story.
Romero first tested positive on August 26 with the Phillies nursing a half-game lead in the NL East. The results of that test came back positive on September 23. The results of a second test came back positive on October 12, just ten days prior to the start of the World Series … Romero was granted an arbitration hearing without having to file an appeal. The arbitration hearing was held during the first two games of the World Series.
Could MLB have possibly bungled this any worse? Wonder if they’ll change the rules in the offseason. Otherwise, what’s to stop anyone from turning copying Romero’s cheating ways? Win the title and get an extended winter vacation? Sign us up!
Sports where athletes cheat the most (and no, cheating isn’t good for sports)
1. Baseball
2. Cycling
3. Track and Field
26 Responses to “JC Romero Tested Positive Twice for a Banned Substance and Still Pitched in the World Series? Of Course the Phillies Title is Tained”
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January 7th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Oh get off. He took some vitamins from the GNC. Which MLB had told him were fine.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Is that some kind of official list there TBL or your perception? And when you say cheating does that mean rule breaking or taking enhancement drugs? It is my opinion that more than half of the NBA smokes dope.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Better than being tainted. I don’t get why everyone is always so upset about this stuff. If it was me and I had the chance to take some shit that was going to set me up for life, you’re damn right I’d be doing it. Professional sports is a business. To think otherwise is simply naive.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Cycling is first, a little ahead of track and field. Leaving the NFL off that list is a joke.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
TBL, by all accounts Romero (and Mitre) are getting hosed here.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
reali just dropped “king kong biscuits”.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Also the “JC Romero Tested Positive Twice..” title… well, if you get tested twice in a time period of less than 2 weeks and you don’t find out you tested postitive until after you’ve already taken the 2nd test, I mean, what are you supposed to do? He stopped taking it after getting the positive test back.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Mangini to Cleveland.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Even Cowherd believes Romero’s story.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Fuck, I got punched in the tain!
January 7th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I never thought I would have to say this to you, but Bite me TBL.
You try to take the first world series SINCE MY BIRTH away from me????
How about we vacate every single World Series champ since the Jose Canseco and the Oakland A’s too just to be safe.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
This sounds like a knee-jerk reaction of a Phillies hater. It wouldn’t consider it tainted since he took all the steps he was supposed to and he was clean for the duration of the World Series. If he did everything he was supposed to and MLB screwed up with it policies.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Where’s the NBA? Mothafuckas be travelin’!
January 7th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
“If people are intimidated because Major League [Baseball] is a big organization, so be it,” Romero said. “But they are not going to make an example of me thinking that I’m just a [dumb] Puerto Rican. It’s not going to happen. It’s not the way I’m built.
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090106_Phils__Romero_denies_wrongdoing_on_eve_of_suspension.html
January 7th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
When you put words in these things: [ ] , you are adding a word that the quoted person didn’t actually say right? The writer actually put “dumb” in front of Puerto Rican, thinking it was implied????
January 7th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Actually, reports say that J.C Romero said “Dumb-ass” P.R.
All I did was copy paste the line.
January 7th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
After reading that link provided by Hopboy, it definitely seems like TBL jumped the gun here.
January 7th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Like he’d ever do that.
/Bernard Berrian’d
January 7th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Is TBL a Yankmets fan?
January 7th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Wow, I hate the Phillies, but way to not report the facts on this one. Romero took something over the counter from GNC, MLB told him it was fine then sent a note to everyone months later saying “no its not fine” That sounds totally reasonable that MLB would do that.
Romero stopped taking it but had already tested positive and after he was told it wasn’t allowed ,stop taking it and was negative before the playoffs began.
Man, this is why blogs get pissed on by mainstream media.
January 7th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
“tainted supplement” is a very popular excuse for wrestlers and MMA fighters when they test positive.
Would you want to be lumped in that grouping if you were Romero?
January 7th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
TBL, you have stooped to a new low with this garbage post.
January 7th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
cracker jack - the brackets are usually rephrasing something a source said, not adding. Hopboy’s story is probably the right one.
January 7th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
So can we expect this post to be strike-throughed in a couple of hours followed by a caveat that says, “whoops, got an early start on our Jan. 7 drinking!” I know blogs aren’t the mainstream media and are held to different standards, but still…
January 8th, 2009 at 9:08 am
There is no way the NFL is not in the top three on that list.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Because its real natural for 330lb men to run sub 5 sec 40’s. I’d be shocked if there more than 10% of NFL players not on HGH.