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Paul Lo Duca released a statement on the 
Washington Nationals’ website apologizing for his involvement in the Mitchell Report.
Here is an excerpt…
“In regards to Senator [George] Mitchell’s Report, I apologize to my family, all my fans and to the entire baseball community for [the] mistakes in judgment I made in the past and for the distractions that resulted. I am fully committed to being the best player and person I can be, on and off the field, for the Washington Nationals and the entire baseball community.”
…i’m surprised it took so long for paulie to acknowledge his “ring-leader” type appearance in the report, but it is good that he finally has…
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Apology accepted!
you don’t really think he’s apologizing from the bottom of his heart, do you?
you konw, if cheating to make fortune and fame is forgivable so long as they “apologize,” (and that’s only after they get busted) why don’t everybody do the same? there are (at least I want to believe) a whole bunch of guys who work honestly hard to get to places without cheating. and there are guys who don’t cheat, and as a result of that, they get their positions taken by those who do cheat. what does, then, forgiving those cheaters make these hard-working guys? a bunch of naive morons?
forgiving is great. one of the best things human beings can do. but sometimes people forgive too easily. these guys are public figures who have more responsibilities. that really needs to be considered. otherwise there’s not going to be an end to athletes’ wrong-doings; you know that they think all they have to do is apologize by reading documents that are prepared by someone else and shed a couple of tears
now Paulie just has to start apologizing to all those poor teen girls and he should be all set!
haha! good luck with that waste of life, nationals!
And thank God you’re not a Met anymore.
I second that. Excited to see Schneider behind the dish. At least we now have a great defensive catcher which is something we havent had for awhile.
Not sure what took him so long to apologize, but I’m glad that he did. I really liked Paulie with the Mets, and it’s going to be sad to have to watch him tap weakly into double plays and pop out to shallow center 19 games this year.
Apologies go a long way in our society. Good lesson for Clemens and Bonds to learn.
Agreed. Just listening to MadDog this morning and a caller had a great idea for Pettite. He said Pettite should rent a huge auditorium to hold tons of media, and hold a press conference where every question can be asked of him regarding steroids. That way even if its 10 hours of questions once its over it is over. He can then answer any questions about it afterwards with an answer of you all had your chance and its behind me now. Great idea imo.
yeah, it good to see lo duca own up to his mistakes like a man. by releasing a statement, which was probably written by his agent. and then posting it on the internet. what a tough guy. he really knows hot to face up to his critiques. that kind of honesty and integrity is really appreciated by the media.
And in such a timely fashion, too. A class act, really.
I think its good he apologized. Its not like he tried to deny it, or came up with some BS excuse. Just say your sorry and move on. I don’t think he needs to go into much detail about when and why he used steroids or answer 50000 questions about it. This steroid stuff just needs to die already, its time to talk about the 08 season.
With all the Congressional investigations and supposedly impending punishment based off of the Mitchell report, don’t you think it was wise for Paulie to keep his mouth shut until he was fairly clear that he’d be legally in the clear?
Paulie is one of the most stand-up and frank figures in the game. I’m sure there’s a completely valid reason for him issuing his apology when, and in the manner, he did. Notice he didn’t even acknowledge using steroids! It’s the Jason Giambi apology. I know it seems weak, but guys, come on, with such serious repercussions from admitting steroid use, can’t you see why it has to be done this way?
I guess David Wright knew what he was talking about yesterday.
If anything I think what David Wright said yesterday actually forced Lo Duca’s hand. The way it seemed to me was that David didn’t realize Lo Duca hadn’t said anything yet. So after that interview he probably felt bad for *outing* Lo Duca and told him what he said and that forced Paulie to come out and actually aknowledge the Mtchell Report.
Given his *statement* I don’t necessarily believe he would have said anything if it weren’t for David.
Points well taken Kent and slob. Guess the expectation bar has been severely lowered by all these cheaters. We should expect more.
Frankly, I’m disappointed and somewhat angry with the apology. He says “mistake” instead of “using steroids, which is a terrible thing to do.”
He also says that he won’t discuss it with anyone outside of the canned, written apology that some PR person obviously wrote for him.
It’s down right pathetic how these guys cheat the game, cheat the fans, and essentially endorse the use of steroids (by becoming and staying successful).
I always thought Paulie was a standup guy, but clearly he’s not. He’s a complete wimp. He fails to say the S word in his “apology” for appearing the a report. If he was the straight shooter we all thought he was, then he would have come out and said he did steroids and it was wrong. He would also have agreed to talk about it at least once with the media.
I have lost all respect for the guy. Thank god I don’t have to root for him.
don’t do something in the first place that you gotta apologize later if revealed. that’s what 5th graders do. embarrassing. i was a fan of you paulie. you betrayed
I guess it won’t be long before he’s playing in the minors or out of baseball altogether, where he belongs.
I’m still a fan of Lo Duca and I’m glad to see he did the right thing and admitted a mistake and apologized. You guys are being way to hard on him, blaming him for not holding a press conference and saying his apology was “canned”. It doesn’t matter what form it came in; he’s not Clemens or Bonds who are bombastic and arrogant in their denials, Lo Duca manned up about it.
For me, if you apologize and seek forgiveness i’ll always forgive.
Good Luck in the rest of your career Paulie, except when you play the Mets.
I’m glad he apologized too. But I would have liked to see him to do that maybe back in December instead of waiting 2 months.
I’ve never felt more privileged to be a Mets fan… I mean, if all of you guys are such fantastic, flawless human beings as to be able to dump on LoDuca for not handling an apology in the very specifically abject way you want… I mean, I feel like a better person just sitting at Shea with you, chanting “Jeter Sucks” and heaping abuse at an umpire and players I will never see face-to-face.
I’m not *flawless* but I do apologize when I do something wrong. I don’t wait until other people start apologizing for me before I get around to doing it myself.
Do your apologies involve congressional investigations, the threat of suspension from your job, and the remote possibility of jail time?
Did andy Pettitte face any of that? He was named in the Mitchell Report and apologized right away and I don’t see him facing any jail time.
What’s the difference? If Lo Duca was willing to apologize now he could just have easily apologized in December. Nothing has changed for him. ARe you honestly trying to tell me that he would have somehow gotten *in trouble* if he had apologized in December or January? Of course not! *Everyone* really only cares about Clemens. Lo Duca is a little fish in all of this.
Also, I’m confused. So you’re saying that if you do something wrong/break the law you shouldn’t *apologize* because then you would have to face the consequences of your own actions and that wouldn’t be right? That’s what you’re saying, right?
say the word steroids or you are a fraud, period.
at least pettitte admitted using a specific drug.
Well, it could be worse, like “I’m sorry if I offended anyone”. I would have liked him to use the words steroids, but its still an apology. I’ll miss that LoDuca puss whenever he got pissed about something. Good luck Paulie.
That said, I’d rather the Mets purge their roster of any and all past and present steroid/HGH users. If clubs put their foot down, the players will heel; screw what the MLBPA leadership says.
About these apologies… have any of the things you’ve had to apologize for had far-reaching legal implications?
I’m no contract lawyer, but I would venture to say that there may be reasons for the somewhat guarded nature of Paulie’s– and other active players’– apologias.
This isn’t a complete, explicit apology for specific acts. (One of those is coming someday, I’m sure, but possibly not for a while; “Mike’s Mets” posted a great piece on this sort of thing.) But it is an actual apology, “canned” or no. There’s no “if I did something wrong, then I apologize” no-apology garbage (the likes of which spilled out of Pettitte, pre-subpoena). I’ll take it for now, and hope for more later.
And– let’s put it plainly– these guys aren’t murderers, rapists, or even agents (ba-dum-bum).
THANK YOU!
pettitte said he took hgh and he’s not losing his contract for the 2008 year. want to why? because it happened in the past. you can’t be in breech of contract for something you did before said contract. paulie should have just said it, instead of danced around it. for crying out loud, we all saw the canceled checks!
Paulie owes no one an apology. The general public’s refusal to accept– or sheer ignorance– the the steroid problem in baseball years ago is pathetic. Did I know that it was so prevalent? No, of course not. Did I believeb eyond a doubt that the twitching masses of muscle like Bonds, Canseco, McGwire, etc were using PEDs? Or course.
Again, fan’s ought to share the blame for being stubborn and ignorant.
Paulie’s a good guy in my book, and I could not care less if he used steroids.
Huh? So this guy deceives people and cheats at his job and he owes no one an apology?
Why were fans supposed to know about all of the steriod use in baseball? You name some people where it *seems* fairly obvious but with Lo Duca, Pettite, Brian Roberts…we were all supposed to know?
Lying is lying and cheating is cheating. You think that just because others were doing it means that it is right for more people to do it?
So I guess you think that if one of your co-workers steals money from the company you work for, you should be able to steal too? AND you shouldn’t have to apologize to anyone! Unbelievable…