Brooklyn Met Fan has an alarmingly honest admission of guilt from Guillermo Mota on his blog.
Mota, to his credit, basically fessed up: ““I have no one to blame but myself, I take full responsibility for my actions and accept MLB’s suspension. I used extremely poor judgment and deserve to be held accountable…To my teammates and the entire Mets organization, I am sorry. I truly regret what I did and hope that you can forgive me. To baseball fans everywhere, I understand that you are disappointed in me, and I don’t blame you. I feel terrible and I promise this is the first and last time that this will happen. I am determined to prove to you that this was one mistake.” BMF gives him credit for taking it like a man unlike most including Rafael Palmiero who dragged Miguel Tejada into his own mess.
I can’t even believe it. I expected a whole rigamaroll about how he didn’t do anything that is illegal in his country, yada, yada, yada. I hope that guys like Sosa and Palmerio look at this guy who was no kind of a star and realize that they got out classed by a middle reliever. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind having him back after he took this much responsibility.
I also don’t think that his vast improvement was due to the roids. I think it is psychological. I think he was mixing his pitches better with theMets. I also think the friendly confines of Shea probably helped a bit too. Maybe I’m naive. Anyway, congrats to Guillermo on being a man.
