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| Marlon Byrd |
Believe it or not, Marlon Byrd, up until recently an outfielder with the Boston Red Sox was the primary client of former BALCO czar Victor Conte.
For those wondering, Conte and BALCO were at the forefront of baseball's steroid investigations over the past several years.
Conte used Byrd as spokesperson for his new business...a spin-off of BALCO that allegedly sold supplements. And Byrd gleefully proclaimed that as a client, "He's been clean"
Guess what, Byrd's name turned up Monday afternoon as a positive tester for Performance Enhancing Drugs.
What's even better, the drug of choice: Tamoxifen, a drug used to treat Breast Cancer. The primary issue in play here.
Byrd doesn't have Breast Cancer at least not that we or anybody else has been made aware of. The Major League Baseball Players association says Byrd is taking the drug for "An Undisclosed Condition".
ESPN.com tells us more about this strange alliance RIGHT HERE
We aren't sure if this could be classified as a case of "The Blind Leading the Blind", "Just plain stupidity" or "Trying to pull one over"? Really, it's hard to come up with a good way to describe this.
Other than just plain funny.
So Byrd, who's had a modestly successful career in the Major Leagues, but hasn't done much of late. We're guessing that whatever WAS left of his career, is now probably gone.
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