Ortiz Presser, MLBPA Statement Fail To Answer Questions

I don’t know about you, but I wanted more. I EXPECTED more.

We were promised answers.

David Ortiz said he was going to find out WHY he failed his 2003 drug test… and that, once he had additional information, he would give us answers.

So we waited. We waited for him to make his inquiries… we waited for him to get additional information… we waited for him to interpret that information… and we waited for answers.

But instead of getting answers, we were fed a bunch of mumbo-jumbo… by Ortiz and union chief Michael Weiner. Instead of getting answers we were left more confused and with a greater number of unanswered questions.

It was a thoroughly unsatisfying day.

Ortiz and Weiner may have been telling the truth. The testing program and its results may be riddled with inconsistencies and problems. The player and the union may be prohibited from confirming and / or discussing any of the information that is relevant to the 2003 testing program.

But I don’t believe for a second that they learned ANY of this information over the last few weeks. If the testing program was riddled with problems they HAD TO have known about it before the NY Times report on Ortiz and Ramirez. If the player and the union were prohibited from disclosing any information about the 2003 testing program they HAD TO have known about it beforehand.

And while David may have been telling the truth about his failure to comprehend that he failed the 2003 tests back in 2003, the explanation he provided doesn’t sound believable. It just doesn’t. It sounded like lawyerese and union-speak.

He cannot obtain the information as to how and why he failed the test or what substance he tested positive for, but we are supposed to believe he’s just another guy who took the wrong supplements.

He wanted to say something previously but THE UNION asked him to wait.

The scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz pointed both east and west simultaneously. Big Papi sorta did the same thing today.

The lawyers. The supplement manufacturers. The testing company. The union.

NO ONE has taken ANY responsibility for ANYTHING. We have NO answers.

The Ortiz situation was supposed to be different. He promised to get information and provide answers, yet all we got was more questions… more confusion… more double-speak.

Like I said, David may be telling the truth… and based on what I have seen from him in the past I’ll go so far as to say that I think he probably IS telling the truth.

It just doesn’t feel like it…