August 19, 2011

Former Met Is First Player to Test Positive for H.G.H.: Mike Jacobs, a first baseman in the Colorado Rockies� organization who has played more than 500 games in the major leagues, including dozens with the Mets, is the first professional baseball player to test positive for human growth hormone, a banned performance-enhancing drug.

posted by BornIcon to baseball at 03:27 PM - 1 comment

I was going to question the need to point out he's a former Met and then I saw it was the NY Times and figured they needed to tie it to NY in order for their local readers to care about it.

I have to say it's surprising he admitted to doing it. He could have tied it up in the appeals process for a long time and only have to deal with the "alleged HGH user" tag. It doesn't make it right for using HGH, but at least he didn't try to hind behind a bullshit excuse.

posted by cabuki at 08:55 AM on August 20, 2011

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