Here’s a question for the Hall of Fame’s appointed gatekeepers:
Jose Quintana’s sordid drug history
Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports
Have you already disqualified Jose Quintana?
Here’s why I ask:
Six years ago, out for 50 games after he tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, Jose Quintana didn’t know this was possible.
He was a kid.
He didn’t have a team.
He had been released by the New York Mets for the test, sat out the entire 2007 season and wondered if he’d ever again play professionally.
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Just 17 at the time of his positive test, Quintana recalls how he didn’t think team officials were serious when they first informed him.
The Colombia native had been given medicine for a back problem from someone he described as an unaffiliated sports medicine doctor and had no idea he had taken anything illegal.
Source: CSNChicago.com's Dan Hayes
As I understand the current paradigm, Quintana's teenaged indiscretion is supposed to mark him for life as a lying liar who tells lies. So I'm just wondering how long the current paradigm can hold.
Granted, it's not likely that Quintana will win 250 games or whatever. But he's a good young pitcher, and it seems to me he probably deserves to move forward in his career with a clean slate. Or we could force him to wear a scarlet S on his breast.
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