Hard to prove a negative. It is certainly possible Nomar did steriods, but you leave out one of the most valid inferences - many high performing players from the 1990's and beyond have been proven to have used steroids or other PED's.We weren’t discussing other players and that is not germane to the discussion. What is germane is that it is a common side effect of roids for a user to be irritable and exhibit behavior not normally attributed to the person. At this time, No one can say for certain that Nomar was a roid user.  What one can fairly say is that toward the end of his tenure in Boston Nomar engaged in behavior not normally seen from him.  Was it Mia or roids?

You tend to throw a lot of cow sh*t on the barn door. There you go again, getting personal.. what I post is cow sheeeet and what you post is water from the Holy Grail.. I get it… What I also get is when people can’t discuss without hurling insults they lose the discussion.  OK Nomar's body and possibly his injuries may indicate the use of steroids, but what "bizarre" injuruies   First, his Achilles injury just magically appeared… must have done that getting up off the can at Mia’s house eh?  and "bizarre" behaviour rather than write a doctoral thesis perhaps it would be helpful for you to review the entire saga during the last 3 to 6 months of Nomar’s return from injury and contract negotiations. Please don’t pretend like you are not aware of all the nonsense that occurred. and responses are you talking about?  The Nomar I saw every day was mild-mannered, quiet and level-headed guy. I never saw anything "bizarre" about Nomar, except maybe his nose ('roids?).  This is what most frurstrated, wannabe shut-ins hated about Nomar, his "attitude". Again, your insults make you lose the discussion.  Same with Manny. I either had trashed the dougout after a strikeout, maybe some would like them more.  Does nothing for me.

Unreasonable contract position? I'm glad he didn't take the contract, but the Sox offered him a contract, Nomar's agent engaged in negotiations as is the norm, and the Sox pulled the offer. That is unreasonalbe. Funny how we heard all about this contract negotiation from Luccino, while the supposed policy is not to discuss contract issues. Funny  Neither one of us truly knows what transpired in the negotiation process. All we do know is what was reported by mouthpieces and agents.  The fact that he was offered $60 mill for 4 years seems a fairly reasonable belief. It is just as reasonable to say that the Red Sox had an arbitrary maximum amount that they were going to pay Nomar. When Nomar’s agent turned that down,with a counter offer (and we do not know what the counter offer was now do we? What if it was for 100 million?)  I don’t have a chapped ass because contract negotiations  didn’t work out. I DO HAVE A CHAPPED ASS TOWARD NOMAR FOR QUITTING ON HIS TEAM   YOU CAN BELIEVE HE DID NOT…… I BELIEVE HE DID. .  And that is coming from 12 years of high school and military baseball and over 3,000 games umpired. 

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