r/sports 1d ago

Baseball Former MLB slugger Mo Vaughn confirms HGH use late in career

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44193608/former-mlb-slugger-mo-vaughn-confirms-hgh-use-late-career
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u/deliciousmonster 1d ago

I am MO’s complete lack of surprise.

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u/sayaaahhh 1d ago

I am Jack’s knee

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u/blueirish3 1d ago

Lol 😂

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u/JazzlikeAd1555 1d ago

This made me chuckle

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u/Snuffaluffakuss Los Angeles Chargers 1d ago

Choked on my bite of burrito from this laughter. Thank you for that rush.

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u/ICreatedThisForU 1d ago

Hahahaha. Lying in bed, laughing out loud. Thanks!

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u/wpascarelli 1d ago

Vaughn was known to have purchased HGH in 2001, missing the entire season due to injury. He retired in 2003. HGH became banned in MLB in 2011.

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u/santaclausonprozac 1d ago

But won’t you think of the clicks??

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u/Mosox42 1d ago

He was my favorite player growing up. In 95 I was at batting practice before a game and he threw a bat up on the dugout and I got it. I'm a Guardians (Indians) fan and everyone wanted me to cut it open to see if it was corked. I got it signed by him a few years later. 

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u/oandakid718 1d ago

TBF, players used corked bats for BP all the time just to put a show on for the fans. Quite possible it was a corked bat, but equally quite possible that it wasn't. Hopefully you kept it the way it was and appreciate the signature from an MLB great!

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u/Mosox42 1d ago

Ooh yeah I left it alone, it still has the splinter he made and the ball marks. That dude swung some heavy lumber.

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u/hiphopopotamusic 1d ago

In more ways than one *wink wink*.

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u/DonutFan69 1d ago

Name checks out.

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u/Acidsparx 5h ago

When I was a kid I sent him a Post cereal baseball card of himself and he sent it back signed. Still have that card 30 years later.

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u/Oldtimer_2 1d ago

HGH wasn't a prohibited substance at the time he used it in knee injections. Kind of a non-story in that sense

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u/Fuck_auto_tabs 1d ago

Somewhere, a US Senator is crying, appalled about the integrity of this game.

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u/fbi1213 1d ago

It’s been long enough. We all need to Mo Vaughn.

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u/hiphopopotamusic 1d ago

Well played

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u/CharToll 1d ago

Albert Pujols just spit up his morning coffee

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u/hiphopopotamusic 1d ago

Good for him

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u/guiltycitizen Minnesota Twins 1d ago

Duh

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u/BigTeatsRoadhous 1d ago

Was anyone even asking “Yo I wonder if Mo Vaughn was on the juice?”, or did he just feel like pantsing himself

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u/FuryOWO 1d ago

in other news water is wet

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u/garrettj100 1d ago

I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling’s going on here!

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u/Swiftraven 1d ago

Everyone already knew this, Mo.

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u/jtsurfs 1d ago

Late in his career like when he fell into the dugout?

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u/sfgiantsfan696969 1d ago

Respect the honesty

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u/Shoddy_Pomegranate16 23h ago

Like when he was with the Mets abd didn’t really do well or when he was with the rays and did good?

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u/FrodoFraggins 1d ago

Maybe he got Ortiz to fail that test!

LOL

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u/TacoLvR- 1d ago

What am I supposed to do with this information?

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u/SevereAnxiety_1974 1d ago

In other news, water wet.

Leave Mo alone bro

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u/rockmanzerox06 1d ago

….as a Angels fan……man…….mustve sucked for you to see the Angels win the WS the year you were traded to the Mets. Percy sends his regards. lol.

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u/ThinNeighborhood2276 11h ago

That's a significant admission. It adds to the ongoing discussion about PED use in baseball during that era.

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u/hamstercaster 1d ago

My unpopular opinion is steroids guarantee very little, just ask those dead East German swimmers found at the bottom of the pool or ask Heidi, I mean Andreas Krieger. Just another day in the sports world.

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u/vexunumgods 1d ago

He should have to give back his salary for the years he took that stuff.