MLB Net's Vasgersian Not Shocked By Positive Drug Tests In MLB
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Vasgersian Says Players'
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MLB Network's Matt Vasgersian said there is "not a single player in baseball that if we learned that they failed a drug test that we'd be completely out-of-your-brain shocked," according to a Q&A with Maury Brown of BIZ OF BASEBALL. Vasgersian said failing a drug test is "just a big middle finger extended to [MLB] and the fans." Vasgersian said players can "keep their denials going when microphones are on, they can assign blame to everything from a quack doctor to misreading a label to being deceived to complete ignornace to doing it for erectile dysfunction, which seems to be the sexy excuse now, and it's all nonsense." When asked if steroids have "taken away some of the innocence of the game" for him, Vasgersian responded, "The closer you get to anything, the more the bloom comes off the rose. ... And when you get that access, sometimes the information that you get with it isn't the most flattering." Meanwhile, Vasgersian said the number of empty seats around MLB this season is "something that we're all tempted to talk about on air, but we're trying not to. We haven't been given that edict but it's striking when you watch a Yankee game, and you see how many seats are empty right behind the plate." Vasgersian also said of posting an online apology for comparing a member of the Rockies' EMT staff to Eagles QB Donovan McNabb during an "MLB Tonight" telecast last month, "I felt like I needed to do that directly, because people who watch the show ... we don't necessarily have our hard core viewers with us every night." He added Biz of Baseball, Awful Announcing and Deadspin are the "first places that I went when I knew that I screwed up. I figured as a user in those communities online that I needed to address my own foibles" (BIZOFBASEBALL.com, 5/11).
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