This story just keeps getting stranger and stranger...
From The Associated Press:
NEW YORK — Rafael Palmeiro told baseball's arbitration panel that a vitamin he received from Baltimore Orioles teammate Miguel Tejada might have caused his positive test for steroid use.
Palmeiro testified that he received B-12 from Tejada, a person familiar with the grievance hearing said Thursday on condition of anonymity because the proceedings were secret.
"Right now I'm in shock," Tejada, a former American League MVP, said after Baltimore lost to the New York Yankees on Thursday night. "I’ve never given anybody steroids before. I’ve been checked out three times already, and I’m clean. I’ve been clean all my life."
"It doesn’t bother me because I’m not guilty. I’ve done nothing wrong. I just gave him B-12, and B-12 is legal," Tejada said. "You don’t get caught for B-12."
No team -- NO TEAM -- in Major League Baseball history has had as nightmarish and embarrassing of a second half as the 2005 Orioles. From the Sidney Ponson scandal to the Rafael Palmeiro scandal to the Sammy Sosa disappearance to the Lee Mazzilli firing to the Brian Roberts injury, this is a team that is flat-out cursed.
Oh, and there's the little matter of the team's 23-42 record since the All-Star break.
Was this team honestly in first place in the AL East for most of the first half. Are you kidding me?
Peter Angelos doesn't need to find a buyer for the Orioles. He needs an exorcist.
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