As Ryan Braun's 65-game suspension receded from the sports world's collective consciousness, and everyone focuses on the impending suspension for Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis whistleblower Porter Fischer is still rocking the boat.
Fischer, who handed over Biogenesis founder Tony Bosch's papers over to The Miami New Times, says that dozens of performance enhancing drug users have yet to be revealed.
And they aren't all baseball players.
"This isn't a 2013 thing or a 2012 thing; some of these people have been on the books since 2009," Fischer said. "In just the four years that I know, it's got to be well over a hundred, easy. It's almost scary to think about how many people have gone through [Bosch's treatments] and how long he's gotten away with this."
Fischer once made an investment in Bosch's company, putting in $4,000 with the expectation of getting $4,800 back. He was then named the company's marketing director, but received a $1,200 payment before the money stopped coming in.
Frustration over the lack of payment, and the arrogance with which Bosch refused to pay, spurred Fischer's decision to bring down the clinic.
When I would approach him for money, he'd be like, 'I don't have it. I don't have it.' And I was like, 'I want my money.' He was like, 'I'm Dr. Tony Bosch. What are you going to do about it?'" Fischer said. "So this is what I did about it."
Fischer told the media that he originally intended for his revelations to grow into a federal investigation. "I was really, really counting on somebody from law enforcement to come up and take me under their wing and have me as a witness in a criminal investigation, but that never happened."
Fischer says the scandal has turned his life upside down, and he has received death threats from people he once believed were his friends.
"I received that threat that, 'If you don't stop the article, if certain people are mentioned, you're going to be killed. This is not somebody to mess around with,' and so on and so forth. That freaked me out enough." Eventually, he was approached by MLB and given a total of $5,500 to turn over the documents.
I don't have any friends anymore," Fischer said. "The people that I thought were my friends ended up abandoning me or they side with the things they've seen in the media and read that because I've tried to stay quiet. I don't go to the same locations I used to go to. My blinds are closed all the time. I have a concealed weapons permit, but now I continually carry a weapon. It's not what I expected. It's not what I got involved for."
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