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Boston Globe: Sox fired two in steroids case

Including Jerry Remy’s son…

Major League Baseball opened an investigation into performance-enhancing drugs inside the Red Sox clubhouse at the height of last year’s pennant race after two members of the team’s security staff were implicated in steroid use.

Both men were fired in a case that speaks to both Major League Baseball’s new intolerance for steroids and its inconclusive efforts to investigate suspicious cases.

The security staffers said they were dismissed after what they termed a cursory inquiry by Major League Baseball, and very limited questioning by the team - even though one of the guards says he swapped advice about steroids with David Ortiz’s close friend and personal assistant.

...“I’m sure they were hoping I didn’t know anything,’’ said Jared Remy, one of the security staffers who lost his job. “It’s like they didn’t want to know. It’s like: Do we really want to know or do we just want it to go away?’’

The major league inquiry began after State Police confiscated a vial of steroids from the car of Nicholas Alex Cyr, a securi ty staffer who was returning from a Red Sox-related event just before last year’s All-Star break in mid-July. Cyr told police he had bought the drug from Remy, the son of Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy.

Thanks to Baseball Musings.

Repoz Posted: August 02, 2009 at 01:37 PM | 28 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Jason Cleghorn Posted: August 02, 2009 at 01:56 PM (#3277278)

Gosh, this whole mess is just so ridiculous. Can't it all just go away. Stop freaking doing steroids, guys. We will still pay you if you hit only 35 HR instead of 70.

2. PJ Martinez Posted: August 02, 2009 at 02:00 PM (#3277280)

So, the article waits till paragraph seven to mention that one of them is Jerry Remy's son. I think that's what they call burying the lede -- presumably out of tasteful deference to the beloved Red Sox employee currently dealing with cancer... but even so.

3. Steve Balboni's Personal Trainer Posted: August 02, 2009 at 02:01 PM (#3277282)

Pretty bad year in the Remy household, huh?

4. Alex meets the threshold for granular review Posted: August 02, 2009 at 02:09 PM (#3277286)

Anybody could tell these guys were on steroids just looking at the numbers. Their arrest per eight hour shift numbers were absurd.

5. baric Posted: August 02, 2009 at 02:39 PM (#3277308)

Gosh, this whole mess is just so ridiculous. Can't it all just go away. Stop freaking doing steroids, guys. We will still pay you if you hit only 35 HR instead of 70.

I hate to seem blunt, but the bottom line is that these guys are jocks.

6. Guapo Posted: August 02, 2009 at 02:43 PM (#3277309)

I was wondering how the Sox fired Manny and Ortiz, given that Manny doesn't play for them anymore.

7. Jason Cleghorn Posted: August 02, 2009 at 03:36 PM (#3277338)

@#5, I guess putting emphasis on the phrase, 'dumb jocks'.

What pisses me off is that I played with guys in HS that WERE good enough to go far in baseball, but didn't juice, or wouldn't, and these idiots took their place.

My HS team played against A-Rod once and he was about 170 pounds, then, maybe.

Then again, I've gained 50 pounds too, but mostly from fried chicken, Pop-Tarts and beer, though.

8. Moneyball can't buy you love (Joey B.) Posted: August 02, 2009 at 03:43 PM (#3277343)

So NOW this story comes out? Totally freaking ridiculous. 'Roid Sox Nation is obviously in damage control mode. I wonder how many other stories like this one Major League Baseball and the press are holding out on us, while they wait for the names to continue to leak out.

And Jerry Remy's kid sounds like a real dirtbag.

9. Smiling Joe Hesketh Posted: August 02, 2009 at 03:49 PM (#3277347)

Jared Remy's legal problems have been well known in Boston for years. Dude is a scumbag. Beating the crap out of his girlfriend in his father's house was beyond the pale.

10. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: August 02, 2009 at 04:14 PM (#3277358)

Not that you really need the "father's house" qualifier, there.

11. greenback

Posted: August 02, 2009 at 04:24 PM (#3277364)

If you gave me nine random pictures of white males and that picture of Jared Remy, I'm pretty sure I'd pick Remy as the steroids dealer. Huge build, no hair, tattoos (including the ever-popular barbed-wire-around-the-bicep tattoo) and a Gold's Gym muscle shirt. You only need a couple of fist-holes in the wall behind him to cover all the stereotypes.

12. Jeff K. Posted: August 02, 2009 at 04:37 PM (#3277374)

The major league inquiry began after State Police confiscated a vial of steroids from the car of Nicholas Alex Cyr, a securi ty staffer who was returning from a Red Sox-related event just before last year’s All-Star break in mid-July. Cyr told police he had bought the drug from Remy, the son of Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy.

Dude, what a dick. Forget the fact that steroids mean the story is going to blow through the roof. You work in baseball, you get caught with steroids, you're getting canned. For one vial, you're not going to prison. So even if you're a low life scumsucker who'll rat people out to save your neck, what are you getting out of this?

13. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: August 02, 2009 at 05:05 PM (#3277398)

The major league inquiry began after State Police confiscated a vial of steroids from the car of Nicholas Alex Cyr,

what's up sexy, you are very cut it is bad that you are 15 the law is very strick about that kind of stuff but I may have to do an execption this time

14. Obi One Kenobi Nil

Posted: August 02, 2009 at 05:15 PM (#3277410)

#13 - wat?

15. Jeff K. Posted: August 02, 2009 at 05:19 PM (#3277413)

I don't think it's quite Primey to bring out an old reference, but it's good enough that I'll say if I ever run into AG#1F, first one's on me.

16. JC in DC Posted: August 02, 2009 at 05:29 PM (#3277418)

I'm pretty sure I'd pick Remy as the steroids dealer. Huge build, no hair, tattoos (including the ever-popular barbed-wire-around-the-bicep tattoo) and a Gold's Gym muscle shirt.

There's no such thing as a steroids-type body. I assume he just works out hard.

17. Earvin 'Gold Stars' Johnson Posted: August 02, 2009 at 05:37 PM (#3277424)

This is how a 'roided-up security staffer restores order.

18. still hunting for a halo-red october (in Delphi) Posted: August 02, 2009 at 05:39 PM (#3277425)

Is this a high crime or misdemeanor warranting impeachment under the illustrious constitution of Red Sox Nation?

19. Los Angeles Waterloo of Black Hawk Posted: August 02, 2009 at 06:17 PM (#3277455)

#13 - wat?

He was quoting a note that former major league pitcher Eric Cyr wrote to an underage girl on an airplane.

20. Jeff K. Posted: August 02, 2009 at 08:50 PM (#3277709)

That is some epic drollery from JC there.

21. Norcan Posted: August 02, 2009 at 10:14 PM (#3277789)

I just looked up Eric Cyr on wikipedia and that was some messed up piece of business on both sides. She ended up suing everybody three years later, the Padres, his minor league team, 100 other passengers. Why?

22. Tuque

Posted: August 02, 2009 at 10:33 PM (#3277798)

She ended up suing everybody three years later, the Padres, his minor league team, 100 other passengers. Why?

They were all conspiring together?

23. God Posted: August 02, 2009 at 10:50 PM (#3277808)

Matt Williams is A) a Diamondbacks broadcaster, B) Part owner of the team, and C) A part-time coach who is on the field before games instructing players. Can you guys really not see why someone like that getting steroid shipments might concern MLB?

24. God Posted: August 02, 2009 at 10:51 PM (#3277809)

Even God gets the wrong thread sometimes.

25. Jeff K. Posted: August 02, 2009 at 11:23 PM (#3277832)

So Jesus *could* microwave a burrito so hot that even He couldn't eat it!

26. We don't have dahlians at the Palace of Wisdom Posted: August 02, 2009 at 11:48 PM (#3277865)

This is how a 'roided-up security staffer restores order.

I've been at Dos Gringos when the bouncers were doing "crowd control". Thankfully, it never went that far, but it did seem like the bouncers were doing more instigating than the drunks.

27. Earvin 'Gold Stars' Johnson Posted: August 02, 2009 at 11:55 PM (#3277869)

The owner of Dos Gringos recently got 2 years in prison for tax evasion.
I know that bouncer in the video got brought up on charges (one of the few times I'll give credit to Andy Thomas), but I don't know how the case ended.

28. Srul Itza At Home Posted: August 03, 2009 at 02:32 AM (#3277944)

100 other passengers

I do not know that she sued 100 "other passengers". The wiki says that Lawsuit included 100 "John Does". This is a legal convention whereby you leave open the possibility for adding additional defendants if they come to your attention. Many complaints as a matter of course include these kinds of John Doe allegations. In the majority of the cases the allegations come to nothing. Sometimes new parties will be "identified" as John Doe 1, John Doe 2, etc.

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