Good question. It's a legal, prescribed medication. His past history probably didn't help.

What? an amphetamine? Yes, I know that. I have used it before, as well.

I don't buy that it would make you a better baseball player, whatsoever.

might explain the "60 day disabled list" for what, a hammy. or was it calf, knee, leg, brain?

and in all seriousness, the guy really did bring some excitement.

and cue the well, bye pics.

it where the problem would arrive for no tolerance, lifetime ban for the first offense wouldn't be fair.

I'm not saying that Tejada is innocent or anything but Tejada had been using for 5 year WITH permission.


There needs to be compromise in situations like these. imo.

Something tells me there is more to the story than what Tejada is saying.

If these are the full facts I have to agree. If.

The fact that this suspension doesn't involve any HGH/steriods actually means that Miggy might still LEGITIMATELY have something left in the tank, actually.

He might have the latest non-testable ped left in the syringe too.

MLB is ****ing reeruned. Whats next? No use of asprins?

The gains would be minimal - as someone that has a legally prescribed prescription for it I have a pretty good insight on this.

5 years of use is even more evidence in favor as this has been a normal ongoing treatment. The drug is highly controlled and regulated, at minimum he has to have a follow-up with his doctor every 3 months.

So, basically we're in the dark about why his exemption suddenly was denied, and I'm not all for defending PED use and skirting the system, but really MLB is either misinformed or their policy is needs changing regarding this.

So far it looks like he is being dinged for an administrative error.

I know it may seem like I'm making excuses for the guy, but if you understand the nature of the use for this when legitimately prescribed then there should be no issues if he was already exempt for years.

I posted this in another thread but now that it has it's own discussion. ..
What I'm confused by is 1st the denial of his reapplication when it was medically cleared before.

Second, this policy is poorly implemented, because use of it is not something you can just stop at a set date- there are real health implications doing that, not to mention some pretty nasty side effects as your system flushes itself and has to readjust to the absence of the medication.

Lastly, why did he never have to serve the 28 game suspension- even if he was appealing there should have been a determination, and if that wasn't resolved yet, given the medication and previous exemption, he should have been allowed to continue to take it until a final ruling.

It makes no sense that he should get dinged for a 3rd offense if there was a process of appeal and/or reapplication given the substance in question as I have pointed out above and no doctor would advocate immediate discontinuation of a medication like adderall.

Plus, what is this policy of expiring medical excemption? This is a class of drugs to treat an ongoing disorder that doesn't magically cure itself, so its not as if his medical need would say compared to, for example, the temporary prescribing of other banned substances such as steroids to treat an isolated medical condition.

When a saw the tweet that said 105 game suspension I thought, "No wonder he was playing so well"

When I saw adderall... that didn't take away from how legitimate I thought his success was

Fair statement. I'm jaded on baseball players and juice. I think it's part of the game.

How is this the same as Adderal?

Speed kills. What a dum****tard