Bartolo Colon fails drug test. subject to 50-game ban

[Greg]

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS

sources: bartolo colon fails drug test. subject to 50-game ban. http://cbsprt.co/SodWSc

[Can_of_corn]

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS

sources: bartolo colon fails drug test. subject to 50-game ban. http://cbsprt.co/SodWSc

So it wasn't just stem cells?

I'm shocked!

For those that have forgotten

http://newyork.sbnation.com/new-york-yankees/2011/5/23/2186072/yankees-pitchers-lining-up-for-bartolo-colon-surgery-mlb

[bdlj0887]

Had to figure something was up with him. The comeback was... dramatic, to say the least.

[bdlj0887]

Potentially good news for the O's though!

Definitely.

[FlipCup]

Hm, maybe we can pick him up for next year and also pick up the Rocket?

[Tony-OH]

Plasma my butt! No one has that kind of upswing this late in his career unless its "enhanced".

[xian4]

Via MLB on Twitter

BREAKING: A's RHP Bartolo Colon suspended 50 games without pay after testing positive for Testosterone, a performance-enhancing substance.

Another great non-trade !

[Barnaby Graves]

Whoa. Wonder how much this will affect the A's? Got to think our job just got marginally easier.

[Gurgi]

I really thought this was happening last year also. I would bet 100 bucks that this clown was cheating in 2011 also.

[brianod]

Via MLB on Twitter

BREAKING: A's RHP Bartolo Colon suspended 50 games without pay after testing positive for Testosterone, a performance-enhancing substance.

Another great non-trade !

Advanced Mexican medicine?

[bdlj0887]

I really thought this was happening last year also. I would bet 100 bucks that this clown was cheating in 2011 also.

Certainly wouldn't bet that he wasn't cheating.

[Can_of_corn]

I really thought this was happening last year also. I would bet 100 bucks that this clown was cheating in 2011 also.

Certainly wouldn't bet that he wasn't cheating.

I wouldn't have expected him to get popped when he was wearing pinstripes.

Yea, I went there.

[Gurgi]

With all the fairly high profile drug cheats this year. Does it seem the penalties should be increased?

First time burn test void all contracts and a year ban automatically sound better?

[UCBird]

So I'm wondering what the downside for Colon was in taking steroids. He was probably out of baseball without them, so he got to play an extra year and a half and make millions of dollars. A fifty game suspension really means nothing to a player like that since he would've gotten nothing without steroids.

It makes me think the available penalty is much too weak and that a lot of players will continue to cheat without harsher punishments.

[Icterus galbula]

Advanced Mexican medicine?

He is Dominican.