Two More Steroid Users Busted: Matt Williams, Jose Guillen
Uncategorized November 6th. 2007, 11:17am
Remember Matt Williams of the Giants? That’s him on the cover of Sports Illustrated from back in the day. He used to clobber the ball all over the place. He also played with the D-Bags, but most of his damage was done in San Fran, protecting Will Clark in the lineup. Yeah, it turns out he was on the roids later in his career with Arizona. The year that sticks out - 1999, when he hit 35 bombs and had 105 RBI. His average and slugging were also up significantly - clearly his best numbers in about four years. Williams told the San Francisco Chronicle the HGH was for an ‘ankle injury’ and is using the line everyone else is parroting: ‘the doctor told me to use it.’ Like the paper wouldn’t get to the bottom of it - turns out the prescriptions were written by a dentist (the same guy who supplied Paul Byrd with HGH) who was later busted for fraud. Nice try, Matt.
Also implicated by two of the best baseball journalists in newspapers: Seattle outfielder Jose Guillen, the oft-traded problem child (eight teams in 11 seasons). He bought copius amounts of HGH when playing for Oakland in 2003.
Keep ‘em coming fellas, this is fun!
Baseball’s Jose Guillen, Matt Williams bought steroids from clinic (SF Chronicle)
Growing list of PED Users (Steroid Nation)
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November 6th, 2007 at 11:21 am
I expected to see a credit go to “Duh Magazine” as the source.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:30 am
that explains a lot about that headcase jose guillen.
wasn’t dismal valdez fingered too?
November 6th, 2007 at 11:43 am
I’m still waiting for the Zapruder film- er, Mitchell report to come out. I think it’s nice of them to wait for the confetti to finish flying in Boston before Big Head Papi is the leading name on that list. That will be fun. ‘Cause he had no effect on them winning two titles.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:45 am
I want to hear some big names, not loser over the hill guys who are trying to save their career.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Rick… Varitek will be right there with Papi. Notice how he has shrunken over the last 2-3 years? His thighs used to be massive like a hockey player a few years ago.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:47 am
I think Matt Williams is a pretty big name, the guy put up good numbers in the 90’s and was a well known player as well. Agree with rick, the Mitchell report should really bust this wide open.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:48 am
remember these 3 names when the Mitchell Diaries come out next month. Dante Bichette, Greg Vaughn and the late Darryl Kile. it’s just a coincidence they all played for the Rockies. Remember how Kile died un-expectedly a few years back and they never really reported what the cause was ? My guess is HGH. (sorry to the Kile family) Vaughn and Bichette were ridlled with injuries at the end of their career. i believe those 2 did steroids. i dont care if it was easy to hit homers in the Rockie Mountains. these 2 ball players werent THAT good.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:51 am
So when this Mitchell report comes out and it finds out that a ton of big names are on this list, will Bonds be more or less villified? IT seems like, even though he’s a cheat and an ass, he’s getting a pretty raw deal, because a lot of players were on the juice of some sorts.
Yet to this point Bonds has taken all the blame and bile for the steroids era. Yes his case is the most well-documented, and his records the most hallowed.
It seems that there’s been this push to villify Bonds, by baseball, MSM, in order to isolate the problem. They’ve tried to make this image that this stuff was isolated, that Bonds and the occasional Latin player did it, but we’re finding out that’s not the case.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:53 am
I would be more than willing to give these guys a pass on the HGH if it was prescribed to them by a legitimate doctor before the ban was instituted. I think David Segui’s case is legit though I don’t remember the details.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:53 am
PBR - That’s a great observation. Hadn’t heard that one.
I kind of like how Mitchell is milking this .. three names one week, three more the next week … building up to a serious name right around the holidays
November 6th, 2007 at 11:54 am
His thighs used to be massive like a hockey player a few years ago.
maybe he got that way by drilling erin andrews on a regular basis?
November 6th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
This was in the NYPost today in regards to Byrd:
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By tomorrow’s deadline, the Indians are expected to pick up the options on closer Joe Borowski ($4 million), set-up man Aaron Fultz ($1.5 million) and, yes, Paul Byrd ($8 million). There were questions if they would stick with Byrd after a report came out during the ALCS that the righty had purchased HGH and Byrd confirmed using it, but under a doctor’s supervision. Initially, major league baseball and the Indians distanced themselves from any corroboration of what, Byrd says, was their knowledge that he was taking HGH under a doctor’s prescription to deal with a tumor on his pituitary gland. But there are now some signs that Byrd was working with baseball’s sanctioned doctors under the “Therapeutic Use Exemption.”
November 6th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Not sure if anyone has commented on this, but the alternating fonts in the comments is really hard on the eyes. I’m skipping over all the posts in the new font.
November 6th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
At least Matty wasn’t using when he was an Indian…wait a sec…
We lost that series in 7. Damn you Williams!!! You should have started sooner and passed it on to Mesa!!!
November 6th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
TBL - You should come up with a list of players whose avg. and HRs increased dramatically then in the end see how many are on the roids. Call it the Roid Pool — probably 85% or better of those on that list will be users.
November 6th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Billit - great idea. But Buffy the Vampire Slayer just started on Encore (there are a few good lines) and we got a couple other things in the hopper. There will be another baseball post, though, and it wont be roid-related …
I think the fonts probably have to do with the changeover … it’s going to be fun, people!
November 6th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Well said, Jibblescribbits
November 6th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
I’m sure it’s going to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys, but why change something just for the sake of changing it? Other stuff (banner, overall layout) needed fixing; the comments didn’t.
November 6th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
PBR, the medical examiner’s report said that Kile died of cardiac arrest brought on by 90% blockage of two coronary arteries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Kile
That had as much to do with his lifestyle (they found coke in his system too) and his family’s history of heart disease than it did HGH.
November 6th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
sad to hear about williams because he was one of my favorite players when he was a giant. he was robbed in 1994 when he had a shot at maris but lost it because of the strike.
November 6th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Wow, thanks for the extensive research on that MS621. i never heard about the coke in his sytem. he was a really big guy, so that’s hard to imagine he was on those drugs. although arent you at risk of heart failure/disease/problems if you are on HGH ?
November 6th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
You well say everyone who has hit more than 15 HR’s in the last ten years was on the jizzuice.
Baseball, much like hip-hop, is dead.
November 6th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
PBR I would think so, but my point was that just because he died under ‘mysterious circumstances’ I think it’s jumping a little far ahead to assume HGH was involved. Could it have been? Absolutely. That’s the sad thing about baseball: any and all players are suspect until proven innocent. It’s not fair, but it’s hard not to think that way. As an Astros fan I’m just praying that neither Bagwell or Biggio’s names come up in the investigation.
November 6th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Thanks Major755