Bye-bye Byrdie

[Frayed Knot]

Marlon Byrd is someone who was discussed here as a possible bench player for these '16 Mets but it ain't happenin' now as he's been popped for his second PED suspension which now means a 162 day vacation for the now 38 y/o

[TransMonk]

Byrd in March of 2013 said, not wrote: “It was a stupid move on my part,” Byrd told WFAN hosts Marc Malusis and Kim Jones. “It was the first time in my career that I didn’t pay attention to what I was taking, didn’t check the lists properly. I said it right in the beginning, right when I got here in camp: You have to be an idiot to test positive, and I’m part of the group. I’m one of the dummies out there who tested positive. But at the same time, in life, you have to embrace the negatives along with the positives.”

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/03/28/marlon-byrd-regrets-stupid-move-is-determined-to-reward-mets-for-trusting-him/

[Lefty Specialist]

Guys who get better in their mid-30's always make me suspicious. Gee, if only he'd 'checked the list'. Yeah, okay.

[seawolf17]

If I'm a professional athlete, I don't even go out to dinner any more because I'm too afraid of what might wind up in my body. Sorry, Marlon.

[Ceetar]

worth it.

[Guest d'Kong76]

KB: You were really hittin' the beers last night!
KC: Sorry, I didn't check the list before we went to the bbq.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ceetar wrote: worth it.

Probably, right? Extends a career that would have been over five years ago, pays a one-season-early retirement in freight charges.

We still get to keep Dil Pickle, right?

[Lefty Specialist]

Yeah, $16 mill in 2014-15 alone. Marlon's set for life with that little nest egg.

[Edgy MD]

Of course, that accepts at face value that all of his latter-day production was juice-generated, which is easy enough to theorize, but harder to establish.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Of course, that accepts at face value that all of his latter-day production was juice-generated, which is easy enough to theorize, but harder to establish.

placebo effect is probably rule too.

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ceetar wrote: worth it. Probably, right? Extends a career that would have been over five years ago, pays a one-season-early retirement in freight charges.

Man, this is exactly what I was thinking yesterday, when I heard the news. Byrd made over a third of all of his baseball money over the last two seasons.