Facing a 50 game suspension, for the use of a banned substance, the Free JC campaign has begun with these T-shirts. The Philadelphia Phillies reliever, J.C. Romero, will also be fined $1.25 Million for the violation. The Philadelphia Inquirer had the story with quotes from Romero. Here are the highlights:"One thing I'm going to say, I'm a man and I'm accountable for my actions," the Phillies reliever said in a telephone interview. "If I'm guilty of something, you know what? I will face it. But I'm not guilty, and I'm not letting people that don't really know me judge me over something and accuse me of something that I didn't do."
"If people are intimidated because Major League [Baseball] is a big organization, so be it," Romero said. "But they are not going to make an example of me thinking that I'm just a [dumb] Puerto Rican. It's not going to happen. It's not the way I'm built.
"For me to keep my mouth shut? That's not the right thing to do. If they want to bump me out of the game, so be it. What am I going to do, just sit back and take it? When I know in my heart I'm innocent? That doesn't fly well with me and it doesn't fly well in my house, either."
ESPN says there is no appeal in the works as of now.
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