Report: Red Sox Fired Two Employees in Steroid Investigation
According to a report in Sunday's Boston Globe, two former Red Sox security guards, Nicholas Alex Cyr and Jared Remy, were fired late in the 2008 season for their involvement in steroid use.
Last summer, state police confiscated a vial of Anadrol from Cyr's car when the Red Sox staffer was returning from a team fund-raiser. Cyr told police that he had bought the steroid from Remy, the son of former Sox second baseman Jerry Remy.
Both staff members were questioned by Major League Baseball about their knowledge of steroid use in the Sox clubhouse, and both said they told investigators that they had no direct knowledge of steroid use by Red Sox players, including Manny Ramirez or David Ortiz, both of whom were named in a New York Times report last week as having tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.
"Major League Baseball asked me, 'Have you ever seen any players do steroids?" the 30-year-old Remy told the Globe. "I said, 'No. no.' ... He said, 'If you're honest with me, nothing will happen to you.' Next thing I know, I get fired."
Cyr also denied supplying steroids to any members of the Red Sox.
Also according to this report, the former aide to Ortiz -- Felix Leopoldo Marquez Galice -- discussed his own steroid use with Remy. Remy and Marquez -- also known as "Monga" -- often chatted during their workouts at the Gold's Gym on Lansdowne Street in Boston.
"He admitted taking steroids. We had conversations about steroids," said Remy. "We'd talk, 'This one works for that. This one makes you bulky. This one makes you harder.'"
Red Sox officials declined to be interviewed for the Globe's article, but the team issued the following statement on the report:
The Boston Red Sox worked with Major League Baseball's Department of Investigations on matters involving the termination of two hourly employees, Alex Cyr and Jared Remy. These activities, like all activities related to employee status or termination, are confidential.
For NESN's coverage of the report, check out the below video or Globe reporter Nick Cafardo's comments.
