Boston radio hosts accuse Pedro Martinez of using steroids

Pedro Martinez became arguably the greatest pitcher of his generation at least partially through illegal means, claim a trio of Boston radio hosts known for taking provocative and controversial positions.

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Via Boston Sports Media Watch, stations 98.5 and WEEI both had on-air talent make the same accusations against Pedro this week, neither citing anything remotely resembling empirical evidence.

One of the on-air trolls making the Pedro accusations was none other than Kirk Minihane, the same dubious individual who a few weeks ago was suspended for calling Erin Andrews a gutless b-word when she didn’t go hard enough after Adam Wainwright for grooving a pitch to Derek Jeter in the All-Star Game.

Just to give you an idea of the level of credibility we’re talking about here.

The other hosts throwing darts at Pedro, Felger and Mazz, offered this compelling argument for why they believe Pedro was a juicer:

"“Everyone else” did it is the main point of “evidence” that they cite, that and Pedro’s incredible numbers and success against a league that was steroid-riddled at the time. Mike Felger is tired of everyone giving Pedro Martinez a free pass and saying that he did it clean during the steroid era."

Besides the “everyone else did it” argument, the Boston hosts also brought up Pedro’s 2002 season, when he showed up to camp somewhat bulkier in the upper body:

"Felger additionally cites as his incontrovertible piece of evidence, the 2002 season. The previous year Pedro had injured his rotator cuff, that offseason he worked in a gym where an accused steroid supplier/trainer also work. In the spring of 2002, Martinez reported to spring training more muscular around the shoulders as a result of having worked to strengthen the muscles around the cuff. This is Felger’s evidence."

In other words, all the evidence being brought up here is old and tired and circumstantial. If you can even call it evidence. Mostly it’s just weak old arguments being carted out by desperate hosts who want to make some waves.

Once again, sports radio is just horrible. Don’t listen to it unless you hate your brain.

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