Ex-Cub speaks out on Sosa

0 Comments | USA TODAY, June, 2009 | by Bob Nightengale and A.J. Perez

Sammy Sosa's teammates were among those who suspected the popular slugger of steroid use, but not until Tuesday was he directly implicated of using performance-enhancing drugs.

Sosa, whose 609 homers are the sixth-most in history, was among 104 players who tested positive during baseball's anonymous testing in 2003, according to The New York Times. Lawyers with knowledge of the test did not identify the drug that caused the positive test result.

"It's not like it's a shocker," says Brian McRae, Sosa's former teammate with the Chicago Cubs. "I think with the top 10 guys you most suspected, he was one of the top three or four on everybody's list.

"The guys that were around him, and saw him every day, you suspected something. He just didn't look right. But...