Javy Lopez kinda sorta all but admits to using steroids
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Written by Alex Remington   
Friday, 05 February 2010 03:18

David O'Brien's latest blog post quotes part of a long interview that Javy Lopez did with Atlanta Baseball Talk.

Here's the important part, as transcribed by O'Brien (it comes at around 40:30):

Lopez was then asked flatly if players were looking at steroids as an option and using them.

“Uh, yes,” he said. “In my opinion, yes…. I mean, how can I explain this? It’s like if you’re going to race cars, if you’re going to race a car and some people are using nitro in the fuel [Lopez laughed], and you see them winning all the time, and you’re using regular gas – you know what? If they’re using nitro and they’ve been winning, well, I’d be stupid enough not to use nitro, too.”

Look, everyone's innocent until proven guilty. But people have been whispering about Javy since his career year in 2003, when he hit 43 home runs in just 129 games and batted .328/.378/.687. I'm not trying to indict him on circumstantial evidence... but it's not hard to see what he's saying. He's saying that when everyone's using, you have to use too. And it doesn't seem like a stretch to imagine that he's actually talking about himself.



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written by Ron E., February 05, 2010
You pretty much have to assume anybody who played in the '90s was on roids at this point. I won't even be surprised when Chipper or Smoltz fess up.
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written by KomaGawa, February 05, 2010
I agree with Ron. Seems to me Chipper sets the tone in the Braves clubhouse, during the '90 I think a non-questioning player could flat out assume that everyone had at least "tried" roids for a period of time. This includes Chipper and Smoltz, esp. Smoltz and all his arm troubles. IMHO the guy is so competitive that he would not hestitate if he knew there was even a chance that it would help, to hell with the there/hereafter
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written by Coach (2011 or Bust), February 06, 2010
HMMMMM, lets see. Lopez had his best season in 2003 in a contract year? hitting 43 HR's with 109 RBI while posting an OPS of 1.065. The Orioles then awarded the dude with three years and 22.5 million....go figure.

As for steroids, I'm just numb at this point when it comes to my feelings about it. As for letting all the juicers into Cooperstown, I'm thinking baseball's Hall of Fame is already juiced so it really doesn't matter anymore.
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written by Nick S., February 06, 2010
Steroids were not illegal in baseball until, what, 2005? So anyone who used prior to that did so within the rules of the game. And since it can't really be proven, I really couldn't care less at this point. It's not like there aren't guys in the Hall already who cheated.

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