Comments on: Brady Says He’ll Be Ready For ’09 Opener http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/02/brady-says-hell-be-ready-for-09-opener Watching The New England Sports Media Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:21:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jes http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2009/02/brady-says-hell-be-ready-for-09-opener#comment-9482 jes Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:39:40 +0000 http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/?p=4438#comment-9482 I hate the kind of article that Ron Chimelis wrote. He asks where was David Ortiz before the Arod issue and says this looks like PR now. He was specifically asked to respond, so it is the media that is making it look like PR from him, A simple google search shows many articles where Ortiz publicly decried Steroids in baseball 2006 ProJo article: Ortiz: I did it right way TORONTO -- Late Thursday night, in the midst of the postgame press conference celebrating his record-breaking home run(s), David Ortiz voluntarily introduced a topic most major-leaguers studiously avoid. Without provocation, Ortiz made a none-too-subtle reference to steroid use, the scourge of baseball for the better part of the last decade. 2005 Globe article: Ortiz, who like many players would welcome stricter testing if it would clear the air, said again the other day he has never used steroids. "I just work hard, man," said Ortiz, who said that as a kid in the Dominican he used to hate lifting weights but grew from 190 pounds when he signed to 230 pounds when he broke into the big leagues, and has added another 20 pounds of muscle since. It sounds to me like some media memebers are trying to run PR for the media not pressing the issue harder either.... I hate the kind of article that Ron Chimelis wrote. He asks where was David Ortiz before the Arod issue and says this looks like PR now. He was specifically asked to respond, so it is the media that is making it look like PR from him, A simple google search shows many articles where Ortiz publicly decried Steroids in baseball
2006 ProJo article:
Ortiz: I did it right way
TORONTO — Late Thursday night, in the midst of the postgame press conference celebrating his record-breaking home run(s), David Ortiz voluntarily introduced a topic most major-leaguers studiously avoid. Without provocation, Ortiz made a none-too-subtle reference to steroid use, the scourge of baseball for the better part of the last decade.
2005 Globe article:
Ortiz, who like many players would welcome stricter testing if it would clear the air, said again the other day he has never used steroids.

“I just work hard, man,” said Ortiz, who said that as a kid in the Dominican he used to hate lifting weights but grew from 190 pounds when he signed to 230 pounds when he broke into the big leagues, and has added another 20 pounds of muscle since.

It sounds to me like some media memebers are trying to run PR for the media not pressing the issue harder either….

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