Brian Roberts

[CockyChrisCox]

named in Mitchell Report.

[SpurFever2009]

I'm not real sure why but I had a feeling that a former Gamecock would be named.

[brat]

Two or three of years ago, he had an uncharacteristically good season in terms of power numbers (HR's) not seen before or since then. Without looking it up, seems like he hit somewhere around 27 or 28 dingers that year. Rumors came out he a few few other Oriole's were on the stuff (which the denied, of course), but the year after his numbers dipped back to normal Brian Roberts power figures, roughly half those numbers.

[kosimpsononthestop]

him and tehada must have been hittin it together

[PyroPepper]

I'll be damned! I took my family to see the Orioles face the Tampa Rays last summer. My 10 year old son was so proud to watch a Gamecock play pro baseball.

[gamecocknva]

I'm not real sure why but I had a feeling that a former Gamecock would be named.

I have the same feeling that the State will put his picture on the front page tomorrow in an attempt to put shame on USC. The sad thing is more than just the guys being named did it. I bet in the late 90's closed to a third of players were on something. I'll still root for Brian.

[SpurFever2009]

I have the same feeling that the State will put his picture on the front page tomorrow in an attempt to put shame on USC. The sad thing is more than just the guys being named did it. I bet in the late 90's closed to a third of players were on something. I'll still root for Brian.

there is no doubt about that. I totally agree with you.

[87Cock09]

I've read it and all it says is that Roberts told some fellow player he took steroids once or twice in 2003. The player said before that he had never heard anything or suspected him of steroid use.

[gamecocknva]

What they have on Roberts is BS he said he said stuff. They discuss Brian on page 158 of the report. Most players they have some sort of documentation. On Brian they just have some hear say. I call BS with Garnet glasses.

[Cocklover]

Thanks for such happy news Chris!! LOL. Somehow this is not surprising!

[87Cock09]

What they have on Roberts is BS he said he said stuff. They discuss Brian on page 158 of the report. Most players they have some sort of documentation. On Brian they just have some hear say. I call BS with Garnet glasses.

yea lol. They have like pages and pages of evidence on all these other guys and they have like a paragraph on him with hearsay lol, figures.

[CaptainCrunch]

dang, that sucks

[Section5Gamecock]

Dam that sucks what they have is kinda BS anyway.Wonder if Tanner will ask him to step down from the Ray Tanner Foundation?

[TKE226]

So I live in Baltimore. This stuff is ALL over the news...Tejada and Roberts. Then there was Palmero a while back lying in front of congress, and Brady Anderson went from nothing to a 50 HR guy.

Anyway, sucks for Roberts and puts a shadow on the Cocks.

[sc455]

So I live in Baltimore. This stuff is ALL over the news...Tejada and Roberts. Then there was Palmero a while back lying in front of congress, and Brady Anderson went from nothing to a 50 HR guy.

Anyway, sucks for Roberts and puts a shadow on the Cocks. and we cant have that

[Cheezy]

No one ever saw him do anything. The guy that named Roberts said that he had never ever suspected Roberts, and that he had only heard it once in passing. That wouldn't hold up in any court. I could say the same thing about Steve Spurrier. It would end up in the report, because I had heard that ole SOS was shootin roids, but it doesn't make it true.

[TKE226]

I did read that Roberts' connection was lucrative at best. Of all the people named his was the least credible, I guess. Thats probably not the correct wording, but its not like what was mentioned about Clemens or Bonds.

[87Cock09]

Even the guys on ESPN said he should never have been named in the report and that they had no real evidence on him. They were even debating whether he should take legal action to clear his name. If he lived in a house for a long time with 3 heavy steroid users and he didnt do it then, I find it hard to believe.

[ConwayGamecock]

I had wondered about Tejada....he was always putting up great numbers coming out of Oakland during the Giambi years, with 30+ HR's and 130+ RBI's. When the steroid testing kicked in, his power numbers faded off the last few years. Doubt we will see those kinds of numbers from Tejada ever again.

Also Jim Edmonds: I know he's getting up there in years, and that may be playing a factor, but his power numbers have dropped off big time starting with the mid-2000's. He was an upper-20's HR, 80-90 RBI guy with Ana., then came to St. Louis during the McGuire years, and started smacking upper-30 HR, 100+ RBI seasons every year. Then in '05, he dropped off big-time, and now he's traded off to SD. I wouldn't be surprised to find out later on that he used Steroids & HGH.......

[Gamecockfanatic4]

BALTIMORE -- Breaking his silence on the inclusion of his name in the Mitchell Report, Baltimore Orioles (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=bal) second baseman Brian Roberts (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=6741) admitted that he used steroids once in 2003.

http://assets.espn.go.com/i/mlb/profiles/players/65x90/6741.jpg Roberts



In an interview in Tuesday's editions of The (Baltimore) Sun, Roberts acknowledged that he used steroids "once" in 2003. However, he said he hadn't used steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs since.


In a statement he issued to The (Baltimore) Sun, Roberts said that after the single injection he immediately realized that it was not what he "stood for" or anything he wanted to continue doing. He said he's sorry he did it and said he regrets making what he says was a "terrible decision."

Roberts was named in the Mitchell Report because former Orioles teammate Larry Bigbie (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=6753) told investigators Roberts had told him he used steroids "once or twice" in 2003.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3159406

[go_carolina_528]

Disappointed in Roberts, he was one of my favorite players