Jack Clark retracts PED comments about Albert Pujols; Pujols drops lawsuit against Clark

Last summer, former major leaguer Jack Clark said on his short-lived radio program in St. Louis that he had knowledge of Albert Pujols using performance-enhancing drugs. Pujols later sued Clark in an effort to clear his name, which led to Clark challenging him to a lie detector test and other nonsense. According to Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the two sides have reached a resolution on the matter now that Clark has formally retracted his accusations:

“I would like to address Albert Pujols’ pending defamation lawsuit and re-confirm that I have no knowledge whatsoever that Mr. Pujols has ever used illegal or banned PEDs,” Clark said in a statement he released and was provided to The Post-Dispatch. “I publicly retract my statements that Albert Pujols used such substances. During a heated discussion on air, I misspoke and for that I sincerely apologize.”

Pujols released a statement of his own acknowledging Clark’s apology:

“I have accepted Jack Clark’s retraction and apology to resolve my lawsuit against him and clear my name,” the statement read.

Clark was fighting a losing battle from the start, and it’s safe to say he did more damage to his own reputation with the legal fallout than sway public opinion about Pujols. But hey, at least we got some good laughs out of the situation.

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