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Sosa Allegedly Thought 'Roids Were All the Rage

Posted Jun 16th 2009 10:58PM by TMZ Staff

We know it's a stretch to think a guy who hit 36 homers in '97 and then 66 in '98 was doing more than eating his Wheaties -- but that's exactly what a new report is alleging.

Legendary Chicago Cub Sammy Sosa is now accused of testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to the New York Times.

A total of 104 cheaters -- including A-Roid -- failed that fateful round of '03 tests, back when there was no penalty for first-time use of performance-enhancing drugs.

The list, which the MLB sealed but never destroyed, was recently seized by the Feds in order to investigate how so many drugs were making their way into clubhouses.

Sosa told Congress back in '05 that he never hit the juice -- we'll see if that comes back to bite him in the ass.

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1. oh no! I hope this is not true. BTW- FIRST!

Posted at 11:32PM on Jun 16th 2009 by chica

2. Every one in baseball back then Juiced up, if they wanted to keep a job and keep getting paid millions. They shouldnt lie about it tho, We all know. NFL players are spooked to even come close to that stuff.

Posted at 11:34PM on Jun 16th 2009 by TMZ941

3. GOOD RIDDANCE!! I KNEW FROM THE MOMENT I LAID EYES ON HIM THAT HE DID ROIDS.....ALL THESE STUPID MEXICANS CLAIM IGNORANCE WHEN THEY TEST POSITIVE FOR STEROIDS CUZ THEY CLAIM THAT THE DIRECTIONS WERE IN ENGLISH AND NOT IN SPANISH.....WELL YOU ARE STILL GUILTY!!!!! KISS THE HALL OF FAME GOOD BYE SAMMY SO-SO.

Posted at 11:59PM on Jun 16th 2009 by INGY

4. Just another biatch athlete like A-Roid. I swear Griffey is the only pure athlete in the last 20 years. Bonds, Sosa, Mark Maquire, and hundreds of others are all complete jokes. If Griffey was injured for three years straight he would be the HR king, no doubt.

Posted at 12:02AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Chris

5. That is if Griffey WASN'T injured for three years straight...

Posted at 12:10AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Chris

6. Where is the Artie Lange story, about what kind of people like TMZ?

Posted at 12:15AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Gringo

7. If Sosa is allowed in the HoF as a cheater, shouldn't Pete Rose be allowed in as a gambler?

Posted at 12:19AM on Jun 17th 2009 by jcoke

8. As a former reporter, I interviewed Sosa in the clubhouse back in 1999. Sosa had his shirt off and it was very apparent to everyone in the media corps he was juicing. He's a flat-out liar.

Posted at 12:35AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Former Hack

9. 'Why now? it is really suspicious to me. Behind all this allegations something is coming over. By the way , you just mention two players of tha 104 ....is just coincidence, right?
Would you kindly display the complet list, if you don´t mind?

Posted at 12:35AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Jill Griss

10. Just back that ass on up and take what you've got coming to you, SO-so.

Posted at 1:32AM on Jun 17th 2009 by I am

11. As a Cubs fan, I still find it a disgrace that his juiced up ass still couldn't get us anywhere close to a Championship. All he was concerned about were his home runs.

Posted at 1:43AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Wilson

12. All known users might as well fess up. One by One their names are being published. All users should not be allowed in the MLB Hall of Fame. All records before 2003 of users should not count. If any of them has lied under oath they should be prosecuted.

Posted at 1:58AM on Jun 17th 2009 by BJean

13. I'm so sick and tired of all of this steroid crap coming out about every player that has done something significant in recent history. Who cares by this point! The results that this comes from was never supposed to be seen by anyone outside of MLB, yet someone in our wonderful government is leaking these guys out for headlines. Stop making it major news, and those people will no longer have a reason to report something as "an anonymous source close to the situation" They just need to re-write the history books starting in 1970 and we can all just move on! Why is 1961 when Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's record or 1975 when Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth's all-time record considered "Modern Baseball"? Because way too many of those traditionalists are still alive and do not want to see their childhood heroes' records fall to my childhood's heroes! Screw all of you old people that do not consider today's baseball to be real baseball. It is what it is, take it or leave it, steroids and all!

Posted at 3:05AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Daniel

14. Another DR juicer...why the disproportionate ratio of roid users being from the Dominica Republic? Because when a Country's National Sport is Cock Fighting, you can bet they'll cheat their way into baseball. They have baseball factories where shoeshine boys like Sosa was go instead of school---can you imagine the slave hours they have to put in and how cruel and unusual this type of practice is? Yet MLB, and Bud Selig fully endorse this approach to "developing" these near 3rd World children to become future Sammy Sosa's.

Look it up if you dont believe it...and than go find out why the FBI is investigating the Chicago White Sox Scouts for the DR and how they have been stealing money from the parents of prospects from these baseball factories.

Sosa cheated, but the DR makes it possible and encourages it.

MLB should quit taking players from the corrupt and scandal plagued DR and go back to getting Americas National Pastimes players primarily from its own Country. Either that or make Cuba the next place to get talent from---the DR is a proven Cheating Country.

Posted at 3:11AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Sosa is a Liar cheat and Fraud

15. I blame the DR...that country produces nothing but cheating baseball players...they even have baseball factories for their youth---why is MLB going there for talent? Our Country's minority players arent considred worth enough, so we have to go to a 3rd world country whose national sport is rooster fighting, and cheating is part of the culture to find players?

Its disgraceful...if you need a country to go to besides the USA, go to Cuba---forget the DR, they cheat and look you in the eye like Sosa has done and lie lie lie. They all do and its not considered wrong---its considered part of how to behave. They kill roosters for sport the way Michael Vick killed dogs for sport...

Sosa is a Fraud and so are too many players from the DR---not all, but far too many than should be.

Posted at 3:39AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Sosa Lied

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