Albert Pujols is steaming. Several times now, his name came up in conjunction with steroid use (can we say PED?). Once Deadspin linked Pujols to the Grimsley thing, and a couple other times (oh my gosh including here -- Sorry). Pujols, mad about a St Louis station carrying rumors about his listing in the Mitchell report banned the station from his new conference.
ST. LOUIS (2008-01-22) Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols banned a St. Louis television station from participating in a news conference yesterday at the conclusion of the team's winter warm-up.
Pujols was angry about his name being incorrectly linked to the Mitchell Report on steroids last month.
At the news conference, Pujols asked the Cardinals media relations director to kick out a crew from St. Louis Fox affiliate KTVI Channel 2.
Last month, the station devoted heavy coverage to rumors linking Pujols and other players to the Mitchell Report.
The rumors started with an erroneous report from a New York TV station.
After the incident, news director Kingsley Smith told the Post-Dispatch the Fox brand allows "a little more latitude" to report a rumor in-depth.
Smith has since moved to another Fox affiliate. Channel 2's acting news director Audrey Prywitch had no comment.
Hey, that's what happens when baseball's steroids policy is so loose; rumors fly. Tighten the thing up. Look at all the other names linked to Grimsley; turned up in the Mitchell Report too.
I wonder if Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann will be banned too -- for this speculation about Pujols and steroids last spring?
albert pujols takes roids.
Posted by: bobby | 02/08/2009 at 20:20
I could be naive but i do not believe Pujols takes roids. He may have in the passed, who's to say? But i don't think he does now or will ever again.
Posted by: Jimmy | 02/10/2009 at 15:02
Show me where Pujols' stats indicate he did roids then didn't.
There isn't a drop off or steep incline in his numbers.
He's a .330/40HR/125rbi guy since he started and will be for a long time.
...some people are idiots.
Posted by: Jake55 | 02/20/2009 at 15:20
pujols has been on roids since middle school
Posted by: Just Sayin | 05/06/2009 at 20:11
pujols has never taken roids,did babe ruth use them. not every great players used them
Posted by: anthony | 05/07/2009 at 15:35
simply stupidity theres no proof and to falsely accuse him is wrong and give him the credit he deserves. bunch of low iq people
Posted by: jim | 05/07/2009 at 19:44
The old players like Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth proved that you can put up good numbers without using steroids. The only evidence that anybody has on him is that he has talent. Talent is not enough to convict someone of taking steroids. Stop judging my boy...
Read this:
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1153053/1/index.htm
Posted by: Anonymous | 05/10/2009 at 16:55
Albert never took or will take steroids. He has been born with an unbeilivable talent to play baseball. You should wonder about Aramis Ramerez, Ryan Howard, or anyone before you talk about pujols. People only critic him becuase he is not on your favorite team. Grow up.
Posted by: Mat | 06/15/2009 at 15:47
Pujols is probably like A-Rod and has been taking them before he hit the major leagues. There's some evidence that Aaron took steroids as well. His numbers from age 35-40 are some of the highest of his career--just like McGwire and Bonds. Steroids were certainly used in the late 60's in baseball. In 1973 there was a Congressional Committee that investigated the use of PEDs in all levels of sports in the US. Here is Rep Harvey Waxman at the recent Mitchell Congressional Investigation:
In 1973, the year I first ran for Congress, the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce concluded a year-long investigation that found — and I quote — “drug use exists … in all sports and levels of competition … In some instances, the degree of improper drug use — primarily amphetamines and anabolic steroids — can only be described as alarming.”
The Committee’s chairman — Harley Staggers — was concerned that making those findings public in a hearing would garner excessive attention and might actually encourage teenagers to use steroids. Instead, he quietly met with the commissioners of the major sports, and they assured him the problem would be taken care of.
Chairman Staggers urged Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to consider instituting tough penalties and testing. And he trusted Commissioner Kuhn to do that. In fact, in a press release in May 1973, Chairman Staggers said — and again I quote — “Based on the constructive responses and assurances I have received from these gentlemen, I think self-regulation will be intensified, and will be effective.”
But as we now know from 30 years of history, baseball failed to regulate itself.
Almost all of the records you've seen in the past 40 years in baseball are due to PEDs. Its time to wake up about these professional ballplayers. If you need a hero, look elsewhere.
Posted by: B | 06/20/2009 at 23:12
f**k you all pujols is one of the greatest baseball players in the world and b***h a*s crackers like you guys are just mad because you cant do the same so shut the F**k up
Posted by: john | 06/27/2009 at 11:01
Are you kidding me. How can you not think he took banned supplements. How stupid and naive
Posted by: Grant Piller | 06/28/2009 at 18:48
All you have to do is look at the guy. To think someone that big, that cant spend every minute in the weight room (which he has to hit a lot to stay on top of the game). has never done any illegal drug is just naive. His legs are bigger than most peoples waist come on people look at the guy.
Posted by: Daoug | 06/29/2009 at 23:36
i agree with john you all just dont like your teams loseing to him
Posted by: Steve | 07/05/2009 at 17:05
albert is one of the best baseball players i know. With all the talk they would have tested him by now and if he does take steroids it would be all over the news.
Posted by: Steve | 07/05/2009 at 17:10
Pujols has never been on steriods. Most of you guys hate him just because he kills every team. If he played on your team you would deny it as well.
Posted by: Zach Schmidt | 08/04/2009 at 21:48
and also this year before the all star game they showed all his homeruns and every pitch was right down the middle. Most guys in the MLB just send it up the middle he takes it out. You dont need steroids to hit the ball 390 right down the middle.
Posted by: Zach Schmidt | 08/04/2009 at 21:51
Theres no way Pujols has ever took steriods ecspecially with his religous backround his wife and family would probably kill him....Plus he knows he doesnt need that stuff to be good.
Posted by: Bob | 08/04/2009 at 23:35
It always amuses me how upset some people get at the opinions of others. I'm a die hard baseball fan and have been highly critical of baseball's lack of doing anything about PED's until outsiders stepped in. If you want to point a finger, point it at every baseball commissioner and players' union officer since the 60's. They knew what was going on and did nothing to address it. Can you really blame a player that used something that wasn't banned - and in some cases encouraged by teams' trainers? You have to wonder how much hush money has been paid to keep those in the know quiet about much of this.
Posted by: Chris | 08/10/2009 at 13:22
I don't now but untill they prove that he did I will always root for him.
Posted by: anonymous | 09/15/2009 at 20:06
I could care less about his religion or family.....Pujols is a roid head. He's done it since he entered the league so he he didn't grow a rotty head like Bonds. We are used to him being big. He is a CHEAT.
Posted by: T | 04/12/2010 at 22:32
another tony larussa managed player who is & has always been on human growth hormones, pujols shot his mouth off a few years back saying he could be tested at anytime and pass. however at that time there was no way to test for hgh, only steroids were detectable at the time. testing for hgh is coming and someday so is the truth about this and many other frauds in the game. it seems like in most of the last several seasons pujols was well on his way to hit well over 50 homeruns until he mysterious has a power slump in september and wind up just shy of 50 homeruns with is a milestone that would certainly attract more questions concerning this issue. larussa and pujols other handlers are manageing his homerun count. he cud hit 70 every year. they also went to baggier uniforms as well unlike whem mark mcgwire and others played for larussa in a time when there was not nearly as much scrutiny. we will never know how good or bad some of these players really would have been if they were all natural. keep all frauds out of the hall of fame please
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