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Anthony DiComo at MLB.com calls David Wright the ‘poster child for a new generation of ballplayers’ in an article where Wright discusses his views on steroids in baseball and is quoted as saying…
“This stuff doesn’t go on anymore in baseball…Maybe it’s me being naive, but I don’t think that guys are trying to beat the system now in baseball. I think that’s behind us.”
Wright goes on to say he would ‘go to battle for [Paul Lo Duca] any day’, but could never ‘condone’ the use of steroids and feels there should be a ‘harsh penalty’ for anyone who gets caught.
…i’d like to be optimistic too, but i with the number of teams and players trying to make a name for themselves i can’t help but think there will always be someone trying to cheat the system and get an edge…it’s up to baseball to stay on top of it…that being said, i couldn’t agree more with d-wright being the poster child for doing things, well, right…
yep, you’re being naive dave-y boy.
he is just being our sugar-pants
David Wright would have made a hell of a politician, or salesman. I hope he’s the next Kranepool.
Naive indeed.
I’d go to battle with Paulie as well. Always loved him. Steroids or no steroids, I like his hustle, fire and passion for the game.
I hope Crazy-Eyes has fun on a team that finished 16 games out of first last year lol.
Naive +1, David.
Maybe he intentionally said steroids while leaving HGH out of his statement.
As long as players are making half a $1,000,000 MINIMUM in the Majors and middle tier pitchers are getting $10M/year, cheating will go hand in hand with sports, especially baseball (most lucrative contracts in all of sports).
By the way, put Ryan Howard in there with Wright. Howard’s a great interview and he seems really nice.
Ryan Howard looks like a black Babe Ruth. If he were a pitcher in the minor leagues it might be a second coming.
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That’s probably cause most players have moved on to HGH.
And if they ever start cracking down on HGH, players will find something else.
I am sick of David Wright’s cavalier attitude towards PED use (see also his meally mouthed response to Clemes). If David Wright believes PED use is in baseball’s rearview mirror, he is either an idiot or just another apologist for fellow players who use. It is this sort of complacent attitude which will strengthen the player’s union’s resolve to resist blood testing and outsourcing testing to an independent contractor, the only real way to try to get the game cleaned up. As one of the most popular players in MLB, he seems posed to replace Jeter as the face of baseball, Wright has the platform to really push to rid baseball of drugs. He does not do so because of the “Blue Line”esque culture of stonewalling criticism among players.
I’m going to have to thoroughly disagree that Wright has a ‘cavalier’ attitude about steriods. Now maybe it’s because I don’t pay a lot of attention to other teams, but he is one of the only players I can think of that has openly suggested players with positive tests be banned for life.
That doesn’t sound like he is ‘cavalier’ to me.
Now maybe he is naive in thinking it is all in the past, but that doesn’t mean that he thinks it isn’t a big deal that players have used/do use PED’s.
I also disagree about his response to Clemens. I was actually surprised he said anything(given his propensity for just touting the party line.) Most players at this stage of the game are either not really saying anything or giving the old “nobody has been found guilty of anything..so I won’t say anything until someone is found guilty of something.” The fact that he even suggested that Clemens be punished if the accusations were true was very un-DWright of him. I mean, who else has said anything about Roger Clemens being possibly punished?
I think if anything this may be the one subject Wright is anything but cavalier about.
I don’t think Wright has had a cavalier attitude about steroids. If anything I think he’s been one of the more open players criticizing it. In the past, he’s said guys should be kicked out for life, and he was pretty critical of Mota last yr.
I think he is fully against steroids and open enough about it, but I agree he is naive if he thinks the problems have been solved. But I think things are a lot better than they used to be.
I know people like to give David grief for being “vanilla” or toeing the party line. On the other hand, I think we should all be greatful to have a kid with his talent that is such a class act.