Felix Manuel Lopez III, the son of New York Yankees senior vice president Felix Lopez, has been told to stop hanging around the team’s minor league complex after senior management became aware of his arrest for a steroids possession charge in 2002, according to The Associated Press. He was spotted by reporters working as a trainer at the complex earlier this month, though the Yankees say he was never employed by the team.
Our Instinct: I hate to even comment on this, but this just keeps getting uglier and uglier for the New York Yankees. It’s a shame really, the most historic and celebrated sports franchise in the history of, well, history is being looked at through a microscope right now. You can bet that the other franchises are scrambling around performing background checks on the hot dog vendors to the foam finger salesmen right now.
