Charlie Sheen: I used steroids in "Major League"

By: Stephen Smith
Topics: Baseball

Sheen, center, watches a baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and the Florida Marlins on Sunday, April 24, 2011, in Miami.

(Credit: AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Winning.

It's Charlie Sheen's most beloved catch phrase. But apparently, "winning" on the set of "Major League" was accomplished with the help of steroids.

That's right. Charlie Sheen, who played Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn in the hit 1989 movie long before his goddess-laden, rant-filled existence of recent history, has admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs while filming the movie.

The revelation comes courtesy of Sports Illustrated, which recently interviewed the cast and crew of the seminal sports movie.

"[L]et's just say that I was enhancing my performance a little bit," Sheen said. "It was the only time I ever did steroids. I did them for like six or eight weeks. You can print this, I don't give a f---. My fastball went from 79 to like 85."

Talk about image-shattering bombshells. If you can't trust Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn as portrayed by Charlie Sheen, then who can you trust in the world of sports and entertainment?

Presumably Congress will not hold a hearing on this revelation.

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by bradkt1 June 30, 2011 3:57 AM EDT: Charlie: Steroids are the least of your troubles...; Reply to this comment


by KiTTyBang June 30, 2011 12:23 AM EDT: Admit doing drugs, common you? Nahhhhhh! Again?; Reply to this comment


by Overruled1 June 30, 2011 12:05 AM EDT: Does this mean Charlie Sheen is banned from the major leagues now?
No Major League 3?; Reply to this comment


by m0u5y June 29, 2011 8:57 PM EDT: At least he was being authentic to the part.; Reply to this comment


by dustin93sc June 29, 2011 5:13 PM EDT: Charlie should admit to using sildenafil and ephedrine like the tabloid press claimed back then.; Reply to this comment


by credibility2 June 29, 2011 4:49 PM EDT: Oh grow up people and stop the self-righteous sanctimony. Sheen has always been a dweeb, with or without steroids, alcohol or other "stuff". He got that way by being raised by a leftist father who was also half-sheets to the wind. Like father, like son. It's Hollyweird folks, deal with it.; Reply to this comment


by tammydel2009 June 29, 2011 4:07 PM EDT: What a Creep! Is this another reason his brain is so fried?; Reply to this comment


by Jimmy371 June 29, 2011 4:07 PM EDT: Any article about Charlie Sheen either belongs in Entertainment or Oddities! Just because he made a movie about baseball and admitted to getting juiced, doesn't mean it has anything to do with sports.; Reply to this comment


by akibeel June 29, 2011 3:42 PM EDT: Who freaking cares? He is so old news; Reply to this comment


by Henri_Rochard June 29, 2011 3:20 PM EDT: Coach Lou Brown (James Gammon) to Willie Mays Hayes (Wesley Snipes): "You may run like Hayes, but you play baseball like my sister."; Reply to this comment