“I’m not saying Delgado used steroids, but I do have a right to know if he did,” Lader says.

Yeah, I'm thinking "no you don't."

“We thought he would be a 500 home run player but his body broke down,” Lader says. “If he used performance-enhancing drugs it was a misrepresentation and we have a right to know.”

We thought he'd be better, but he used them performance-enhancing drugs that make a guy worse. That's not fair.

Wait, a memorabilia dealer is suing Jose Reyes to try to find out if Delgado used steroids? That strikes me as extremely ridiculous. I don't know anything about legal standing, but as a bit of common sense this strikes me as something that he has no right to dig into through the court system. I mean, if you got Lindsey Lohan's autograph in 2004, can you sue Jamie Lee Curtis to see if Lindsey was using drugs on the set of The Parent Trap? It makes about as much sense.

Did he have acne on his back?

I honestly get the feeling that Murray Chass put this idea in his head. It's sad that Chass could contribute another weapon/talking point for steroid accusers.

It's called an investment.

A memorabilia dealer is trying to make it known if Delgado did steroids, because if it becomes known that Delgado did use steroids it would drive down the price of his Delgado memorabilia.

...What?

I think the idea is that his Delgado memorabilia isn't worth a whole lot to begin with, and his argument is that's because Delgado's career was shortened by injury. So he apparently wants to sue _somebody_ and try and recoup his investment that way. He figures if he can prove Delgado did steroids, he can then argue they harmed his career and then can sue for damages. Or maybe he figures if he annoys enough people for long enough, someone will get so tried of him that they will settle.

I sometimes am ashamed to share a species with people like this.

I sometimes am ashamed to share a species with people like this.

Only sometimes? Some days you're like 'This dude is just misunderstood'?

Sometimes I'm able to just ignore it without thinking about it.

Hip problems are a long-term side effect of performance-enhancing drug use, Lader notes.

"Notes"?

Not "claimed"?

Not "made up" just like the back acne correlation?

And this is all about HGH, a known placebo?

Edit: snarky anti-journalist remark removed when I realized it was NY Daily News.

Delgado signed an agreement with Lader in 2006 that made Lader his exclusive autographed memorabilia dealer. Lader says he later brought in other partners, including Nitin Doshi, the wealthy owner of a Long Island medical imaging company. The deal had soured by 2009 when the ex-Met filed suit in Nassau County Supreme Court, claiming that Lader, Doshi and the other defendants stiffed him out of at least $767,500

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In a suit filed last summer in Central Islip federal court, Lader says Delgado was paid a “substantial portion” of the $325,000 the memorabilia dealer and his the other defendants agreed to pay him for the first year of a two-year deal.

But the slugger proved difficult to work with. Delgado signed A-Rod baseball bats — instead of bats with his own name — and sent those to the memorabilia dealers to sell, the lawsuit says. His signature was “virtually invisible” on blue Mets caps because he used a black pen. His autograph was smudged on signed baseballs. The memorabilia Delgado supplied to his partners, the suit says, were “worth nothing or close to nothing.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/memorabilia-dealer-juice-delgado-article-1.1248819#ixzz2JChx5Ytl

So, the real story is these guys tried to stiff Delgado, he sued, and they created this frivolous suit to harass and hopefully embarrass him in hopes of settling the other.