Jay Gibbons - Paying price for illegal use of HGH
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Jay Jonathan Gibbons is a left fielder for the Long Island Ducks. He also plays first base and had spent all of his career in the major leagues with the Orioles until his March 30, 2008, release. He was charged with the illegal use of Hgh. A source close to an Orlando-based compound pharmacy alleged that Gibbons had received multiple shipments of performance-enhancing steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) between October 2003 to July 2005. He was suspended for the first 15 games of the 2008 season on December 6th, 2007.
On December 13, 2007, he was cited in the Mitchell Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation Into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball.
On June 12 2008, Gibbons wrote a letter to 30 MLB clubs, asking to return to baseball, promising to donate some of his salary to charity.
After waiting 10 weeks for a call from an affiliated team that never came, Gibbons, 31, decided this month to play in the Atlantic League and jump-start a career that had been stalled by injuries and involvement in baseball’s HGH drug scandal. Now Gibbons has joined the Ducks, a club filled with ex-major leaguers, including former All-Star Carl Everett.
Gibbons has repeatedly apologized for his “mistake,” buying and using human growth hormone that he said he took to help recover from injury.
“All I can say is I am sorry. I’m sorry,” he said. “I made a mistake and have paid a price for it. Absolutely.”
While his old Orioles teammates were 50 miles south of Baltimore playing at pristine Nationals Park, Gibbons was 50 miles the other way in a sleeveless Ducks jersey with only “No. 13″ on the back - his number from high school. He’s riding a bus and playing for a few thousand dollars a month in 5,000-seat stadiums that feature such events as fans wrestling in sumo suits and a kids’ sack race between innings.
“I’m really having trouble,” he said. “I am a spoiled big leaguer. … It’s an adjustment,” laments Gibbons.
“If the Mitchell Report hadn’t come out, I believe I would be playing professional baseball,” he said. “I don’t know if I’d be playing for the Orioles, because I was in agreement with them with what they did. They were moving on. I had a rough year with them, and no hard feelings. I just find it hard to believe a second chance wouldn’t be given to me.”
All we can do is sympathize for Gibbons and reflect that ‘What is done cannot be undone!’
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