Big Papi: Suspend Steroid Users For Full Season

Boston Red Sox slugger David “Big Papi” Ortiz says that any player who tests positive for performance enhancing drugs should be suspended for a full 162-game season.

Current Major League Baseball rules suspend players 50 games for a first offense and 100 games for a second offense, but those rules were not in place when New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003.

“I would suggest that everybody get tested, and not randomly,” Ortiz told MLB.com yesterday. “You go team by team and you test everybody, three, four times a year, and that’s about it. You do what you’ve got to do … ban them for the whole year [if they test positive]. You’re going to get respect from the players when they know they’re going to get tested. Let’s test the whole team, three or four times a year. I know they can do that. Believe me, if someone was using steroids, it would show up. Because the way they test you, it’s not a joke.”

Ortiz also said in spite of everything that’s gone down he’s still got much love for Rodriguez, who two months ago participated in Ortiz’s celebrity golf tournament.

The same obviously cannot be said for the cartoonist at The New Yorker …