Chris Davis tested positive for amphetamines. (25 Game Ban)

[Guest]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Do not know why <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Orioles?src=hash">#Orioles</a>? Davis did not receive exemption for Adderall this season. MLB doctors review requests each year.</p>— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="

">September 12, 2014</a></blockquote>

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[SilentJames]

Did someone just call you a bad fan because you thought this? I guess Roy Firestone is a terrible Orioles fan too. Geeesh.

Yes I did.

And I would do it again.

Because its not just that one time (This does really hurt) but it has been a constant Summer of this Chicken Little stuff.

[canonfaz]

Does anybody else want to see a little more of Paredes before settling on Kelly Johnson/Flaherty?

His D looked really shaky to me.

[MDK02]

Well atleast ESPN and company will have to talk about the orioles now, in negative fashion of course.

[stef]

Well that's just dumb. I'd love to hear the reason why he lost his exemption.

Why not get the exemption?

Don't these people have agents to take care of this stuff?

But what is the difference? He had to know he didn't have the exemption this year, so why did he take it this year?

[eddie83]

Now we know why Davis took his twitter page down last night.

I guess none of his bible passages would of explained it away.

[TheDirtyBird]

Honestly no because it wasn't done to the Orioles in a stretch run. That was Texas and in the past, this is right now and this is a team that has lost so much already. So if Cruz did the same thing right now I'd be pissed at him too. Not to mention I didn't say kick anyone off the team

[Old#5fan]

We'll be seeing a lot of Flash if this is true. And it sure seems likely to be true - Connolly's not going to put out a bomb like this w/o having reliable info, you'd have to think.

Flash sucks as a regular player. Stick a fork in us, we are DONE!

[MurphDogg]

Like CoC said, you can find a doctor to prescribe it for you even if you don't really need it. I wonder (again) if adderal is actually used as a masking agent for the real thing (PED) or if Adderal alone is believed, by players, to signinficantly boost performance.

There is no evidence to you wondering this. It isn't a masking agent.

[Brendan25]

Does anybody else want to see a little more of Paredes before settling on Kelly Johnson/Flaherty?

I'm raising my hand.

[Aristotelian]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Do not know why <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Orioles?src=hash">#Orioles</a>? Davis did not receive exemption for Adderall this season. MLB doctors review requests each year.</p>— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="

">September 12, 2014</a></blockquote>

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Let me guess...MLB doctors are in NYC. ANYTHING TO HELP THE YANKEES!!!!!!!!!

[MDK02]

Google Adderall and masking agent and you come up with the real reason he was using it and why MLB has tightened the clamp on it's use.

So basically he was taking it to mask another substance he was using?

[mdbdotcom]

I hope there is no other shoe to fall on this subject. Honestly, I've been wondering for about a month if someone on the O's was operating a little pharmacy there. 24 more home runs than Colorado, the next team leader in HR.

[Can_of_corn]

But what is the difference? He had to know he didn't have the exemption this year, so why did he take it this year?

Desperation is my guess. Maybe he had a few left over from last year and he was tired of struggling at the plate.

Not very smart that is for sure.

[CA-ORIOLE]

Yes. I was surprised to see that but statistically he's way better than Davis over there.

Pretty small sample sizes, especially for KJ (who has a huge sample at 2b) . May not mean much of anything. I've seen enough of Davis to think he's not very good there. Not enough of KJ yet..