Matt Lawton admits steroid use

[Beckett95]

Lawton failed test after taking veterinary steroid

ESPN.com

 

Matt Lawton admitted that he took the veterinary steroid boldenone last season, just before he was suspended for 10 days for violating Major League Baseball's steroids policy.

 

Lawton told Sports Weekly's Bob Nightengale that he was playing poorly and was hurting, so he turned to steroids.

 

"I wasn't playing well enough to be on a Little League roster, let alone be on the roster of the New York Yankees," Lawton told Sports Weekly in its current issue. "I just wasn't physically able to do the job. I had never been in the playoff hunt before. So I did something that will always haunt me."

 

Lawton said that he's never taken amphetamines, but injected the steroid on Sept. 20. The next day, he started in center field and hit a home run in his first at-bat. He said he didn't feel any pain.

 

He was tested the next day.

 

"It was such a stupid thing, but I was desperate," Lawton told Sports Weekly. "Maybe it was the pressure of playing in New York, I don't know. I never had the urge to take any of that stuff before, but I was talking to some guys, and they guaranteed it would get the pain out."

 

Lawton, 34, hit .254 last season while playing for three teams (including the Yankees). He was left off New York's postseason roster after hitting .125 in 21 games for the Yankees. They acquired him from the Cubs. He started the season with Pittsburgh.

 

Lawton, an All-Star in 2000 and 2004, is currently without a team.

 

"I don't want people to think that everything I did, the good years I had, were steroid-related," Lawton told Sports Weekly. "I learned a lot about myself last year, and I'll be better for it.

 

"Now I'm ready to prove it."

 

why the hell would you use veterinary steroids??

[26 Reasons to Hate Us]

Lot of good it did him

[Optimist]

I guess that's why he played like a dog...

 

 

Bad joke, I know.

[Pinstripe_Pride]

I guess that's why he played like a dog...

 

 

Bad joke, I know.

ahahaha that was funny

 

and i was at the game he hit a homer, i knew that was too good to be true.

[Soxfan1]

26 what the hell do you bring that into the thread for? Your like the old empire.

[26 Reasons to Hate Us]

its my signature...it will be brought into every thread

[Optimist]

its my signature...

 

It's a bit too long, that's what it is.

[26 Reasons to Hate Us]

well what can i say,

 

It's a lonnnnnnng listB)

[Soxfan1]

I am sorry. I would shorten it or yeszir will get pissed.

[26 Reasons to Hate Us]

fine....buncha girls...:thumbdown

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fine....buncha girls...:thumbdown

looks like I missed it...what did it say?

 

As to Matt Lawton, I feel for him, doesnt excuse the fact that he was wrong, but I understand where he is coming from. He wanted to prove to the Yankees and to the World that he belonged. He had never been in a playoff hunt before and he wanted it very bad. I accept his appology and think that it is very sincere.

[Soxfan1]

looks like I missed it...what did it say?

 

As to Matt Lawton, I feel for him, doesnt excuse the fact that he was wrong, but I understand where he is coming from. He wanted to prove to the Yankees and to the World that he belonged. He had never been in a playoff hunt before and he wanted it very bad. I accept his appology and think that it is very sincere.

26 years the yankees won. I havent see anything past 2000 though.