Rotoinfo was totally unprofessional..........

Yesterday, Rotoinfo published a supposed list of the other 103 steroid users on the list. The list was titled “Rumored steroid list (UNCONFIRMED)”.

I have deliberately waited 24 hours before speaking on this because I felt to put a list out there with names on them that said “Rumored” and “UNCONFIRMED” was about as irresponsible as you can get. I wanted to make certain that I was not one of the first ones bringing this to the public’s attention. But it’s out there now.....

This list includes baseball players who are rumored to have tested positive for steroids in 2003. There were 104 players who tested positive, A-Rod was the one of them.

At this point, seeing any major league baseball player on this list is not at all surprising. Some of these guys we already know about. Manny Ramirez, Andy Pettitte, Roger Clemens, Alex Rodriguez, Rafael Palmeiro, Garry Sheffield and Guillermo Mota are ones that we were already aware of so this is kind of anti climactic.

The list is certainly full of guys whose current career has fallen off a cliff, whose career is over because it fell off a cliff, or who were or are always injured.

I have no idea whether this list is accurate or not. To me, even if it turns out that these guys are on the real list I think the publisher of Rotoinfo did journalism an injustice. They should be ashamed off putting the list out there that way. If they have the legitimate list, then fine, if not then to publish one is disingenuous to say the least.

To me this simply looks like they wanted to attempt to be first to say that they broke a story. The only thing they broke was a professional code of conduct. If you want to see the list you can go to Rotoinfo, because I won’t dignify it here.

Part of me hopes that the list is accurate just so they can’t claim that they broke the story and get any PR out of it – because they have already said that it was “Rumored” and “UNCONFIRMED.” The other part of me says that someone that is mentioned on the list is not really on the list and able to sue them somehow for liable. – Josh Bolan

Josh Bolan is a retired AP baseball reporter and now works as a freelance writer in Fresno California. Josh has been contributing to baseball publications as a writer since 1996.