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Amaro On Romero: "We Care"

According to Jim Salisbury, Ruben Amaro Jr. gave this quote in a conference call regarding JC Romero’s 50-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s substance abuse policy:

“It’s an unfortunate situation where mistakes were made. We care about JC. We also staunchly support Major League Baseball’s policies and the continued efforts of its program.”

Don’t jump on Rube here – he has to play it this cold. Still, “mistakes were made” is a large blanket. Yes, Romero should’ve checked the hotline, but seriously, if you’re not suspicious that what you’re buying is illegal, and you’ve already went through two channels to assure yourself of that, shouldn’t that be enough?

As I wrote earlier, there is a huge mess to clean up.

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.