Um, so anyone thinking David Ortiz is about to get railroaded?

August 7th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanR

To preface: I am not accusing David Ortiz of any HGH/steroidal malarkey. I actually think he’s a (gasp!) clean player, one of those “good for the game” type individuals and an overall jolly man, you could say. (That is unless you’re a Yankees fan. Then he’s a goddamned cocky cheater.)

But as Big Papi blasted his 40th home run of the season yesterday and now stands at 109 RBIs 110 games into the season, (Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle are the only others players to achieve those marks 110 games or less into the season and that was in 1961) people are going to start questioning his freak stats, no? And again, it’s not because they have any solid proof, but because (to be horribly cliché) it’s the age we live in. You know, the one where the last two great sluggers of our era, Barry Bonds and to an extremely lesser extent Albert Pujols, became entangled in some HGH/steroid controversy.

Oh, look! This guy from the Portsmouth Herald seems to share the same general sentiment as me.

Hey, I had to find someone who talked about this (if only for an instant) to back my point a little bit, OK? You aren’t going to believe some crazy talk from a blogger are you?

Exactly.