From SI - sources say a-rod tested positive for steroids in 03
The article notes that even if he did test positive, there was no penalty for it at the time. Just thought this was an interesting new piece of info with the bonds steroid thing right now, even though it is far from certain.
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Barry Bonds is the only person in MLB to have taken steroids.
Don't think, it could only hurt the ballclub.
by ResDog on Feb 7, 2009 7:57 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
The media and a great many fans would be happy to have the steroids issue be just that.
Bonds has to be guilty so everyone else can be pardoned and learn to live with their actions.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
by sectionop92 on Feb 9, 2009 2:13 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
well there goes all of espn’s programming til the NBA playoffs at least
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by sam23 on Feb 7, 2009 8:05 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
don't worry
we still don’t know for sure whether or not Brett Favre will retire.
by boonitez on Feb 7, 2009 9:42 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
also
Favre’s decision that was expected to be made in “one week” just got pushe back to about July.
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by sam23 on Feb 7, 2009 10:49 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Or Tim Tebow and Jon Gruden could start dating each other.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
by sectionop92 on Feb 9, 2009 12:32 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
hmm, i wonder if this will ever be brought up again?
will this morning be the “where were you the day that we all first heard of BALCO?” moment for yankees fans?
Dodgers fans eat their young.
by redhornet78 on Feb 7, 2009 8:13 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
no it won’t be. The NY media is a bunch of jerks, but they’re a relentless bunch of jerks. This will be everywhere here for a long time.
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by rxmeister on Feb 7, 2009 8:25 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
A-Roids
Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below.500
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by S.F. Giangst on Feb 7, 2009 8:15 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Too simple
A-Frauoids… now that’s moving in the right direction.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Feb 7, 2009 8:19 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
A-Freuds
Discuss
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by Useful_Idiot on Feb 8, 2009 4:48 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
A Frisbee
Plastic discus.
OK if I adopt Randy Johnson?
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by victor frankenstein on Feb 8, 2009 10:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
*-Rod
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by nostocksjustbonds on Feb 7, 2009 8:47 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Monday’s NY Post front page said “A-hole!!” Didn’t think I’d see that one. The little old ladies are writing their angry letters as I write this.
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by rxmeister on Feb 9, 2009 6:12 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
FU New York Yankee fans!!
I know this is about 2003, but there’s no way in the world that ARod wasn’t using in 2007 when he had that big season. I argued daily with Yankee fans that year insisting that nobody is this good, and I knew all the signs being that I’ve watched Barry Bonds all these years. Somebody should check Carlos Delgado from 2008 as well. He magically went from playing his way out of the major leagues into the hottest hitter in the game, just when it looked like the Mets were going to release him. Baseball has made steroids illegal, but they continue to punish only minor leaguers and unimportant players. If an important player tests positive, they would never admit it. Selig has tried to dump all of the shit on Barry Bonds and the morons in the media and the fans have allowed him to do it.
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by rxmeister on Feb 7, 2009 8:23 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I like your style
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by SoFa King Mike on Feb 7, 2009 10:17 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Soooo, to sum up your point:
If someone does something that you didn’t expect → Steroids
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by marcello on Feb 7, 2009 11:29 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Not the kind of post
I’ve come to expect from you.
by Sabertooth on Feb 7, 2009 11:55 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I’m not sure how to take this. I totally agree with rx here:
Baseball has made steroids illegal, but they continue to punish only minor leaguers and unimportant players. If an important player tests positive, they would never admit it. Selig has tried to dump all of the shit on Barry Bonds and the morons in the media and the fans have allowed him to do it.
I just don’t like assuming an expected good streak means the player was taking steroids. And besides that, A-Rod’s 2007 was a perfectly believable year. It was one of his best years, but it wasn’t that much better than a number of his other years.
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by marcello on Feb 7, 2009 12:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah, maybe I went too far here. After watching pitchers literally being unable to get Bonds out for years on a daily basis, I tend to get suspicious when I see a player getting into a Bonds like zone for months at a time. And then when I see one of the players I suspected like ARod actually get caught, I start to think I’m right about all of them!! In the case of Carlos Delgado, he was really bad for a long time, he was dropped in the lineup and then platooned, and there were daily rumors that he was about to be released. Then for a period of about three months, nobody could get him out. He was hitting what looked like ordinary flyballs and they would just keep going and going until they were gone. All of this in a year where he had a huge option he wanted the Mets to pick up in 2009. I’m pretty sure I’m right about him, but I’ve probably been wrong about many others.
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by rxmeister on Feb 9, 2009 5:49 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Mike Benjamin took steroids for one day.
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by Goofus on Feb 9, 2009 12:29 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I hope you’re not trying to use this as an excuse to let Barry off the hook
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by Useful_Idiot on Feb 8, 2009 4:50 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I Don't Think Either Belong On The Hook
They are atletes and the competed under what was acceptable at the time. The fact that it has now become unacceptable should have no bearing on this. Nobody cared when it was going on and everybody that is now predending that they are shocked that it was goiing on is nothing but a lying hypocrite.
by giantsrainman on Feb 8, 2009 10:53 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Nobody cared when it was going on?
How in the world were steroids ever acceptable? The fans didn’t care when it was going on because they didn’t know.
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by Useful_Idiot on Feb 9, 2009 8:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
The important point is that steroids were widespread at the time, and I can understand how certain players made mistakes. But don’t come out and lie about it, or try to turn it around on everyone else. I give credit to guys like Giambi and ARod for at least coming clean.
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by Useful_Idiot on Feb 9, 2009 8:40 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Horseshit! They Knew And So Did You.
Stop the madness by continuing to live this lie.
by giantsrainman on Feb 11, 2009 6:03 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
They could just save us all time and taxpayer money by releasing the names of the 17 players that did not do steroids, giving them a free trip to the Bahamas, and then dropping the entire issue.
by Merope on Feb 7, 2009 8:54 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Why should Juan Pierre get to go to the Bahamas
"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."
by i did my job on Feb 7, 2009 9:22 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Considering Alex Sancez was the first player to be suspended for steroids, I wouldn’t rule Pierre out.
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by jcb9 on Feb 7, 2009 9:28 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Pierre should get a one-way ticket there.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Feb 7, 2009 12:47 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Anyone else think its funny
that Jose Canseco has been right this whole time?
Giants! Giants! HELP US GOD!
by j14 on Feb 7, 2009 9:07 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I’m more interested in Canseco’s claim that ARod slept with his wife, then I’m interested in Jose’s steroids claims. Get me the gossip in Vindicated II!!
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by rxmeister on Feb 7, 2009 9:09 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I’m glad Jose Canseco is writing a movie about this. He’s not writing a screenplay, he’s writing a movie.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Feb 7, 2009 5:02 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That’s no way to win over Derek Jeter, A-Rod. Now, you’ll never be his BFF.
by rightcenterfielder on Feb 7, 2009 9:29 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Damn that Barry Bonds, tarnishing baseball’s reputation. Now baseball’s most hallowed record is owned by a dirty no good cheater and an all-around jerk. Oh well, it doesn’t matter anyway because A-Rod is going to take the record back, and he’s going to do it clean…
AHAHAHAHAAHAH
From 1-10, I’m feeling about a 7.5 on the schadenfreude scale. Not really for A-Rod but for the Bonds skewerers .
Barry Zito - Mildly half-OK! Sometimes.
by Revolution1 on Feb 7, 2009 9:31 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
this makes me all fuzzy inside as well
by boonitez on Feb 7, 2009 9:44 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
yep, my favorite part of the whole thing. Many Yankee fans have told me how ARod would one day restore this respected record back to its rightful place. Sigh. It’s all up to Angel Villalona now. Stay pure, Anvil!!
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by rxmeister on Feb 7, 2009 9:53 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
It would be one thing is A-Rod was a cheater, but a really good guy. And it would be one thing if he was clean, but a jerk.
But that he’s BOTH a cheater AND a jerk? Mmmmmmmmm… Taste the happy!
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by JRPhillips on Feb 7, 2009 9:59 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I bet this is why he and Madonna broke up. He failed her drug test.
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by Kitspool on Feb 7, 2009 10:06 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
She was the one who supplied it to him. You can’t look like a sinewy 63 year old, but be actually 106, without a little steroidal assistance.
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by SoFa King Mike on Feb 7, 2009 11:00 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
LOLz
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by Kitspool on Feb 7, 2009 11:14 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Sinewy Madge is so 2007
She’s all gristle now.
by Sabertooth on Feb 7, 2009 11:59 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
now he's a cheater on the field
as well as off it.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Feb 7, 2009 12:49 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Sweet, nourishing schadenfreude… yes… yes… come to daddy… ahhhhhhhhhhhh
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by antinous on Feb 7, 2009 11:49 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
AAAAAAAA
The media is learning the wrong lesson! Now they’re just crucifying A-Rod rather than just coming out and saying, you know what, shitloads of people did it, and yeah that shit happened, but we’re testing for it now and administering consequences.
After watching MLB Network, I am now genuinely feeling sorry for A-Rod. This shit has already exploded and will not die.
Barry Zito - Mildly half-OK! Sometimes.
by Revolution1 on Feb 7, 2009 10:11 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Feel Sorry for A-Rod?
Nah.
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by SoFa King Mike on Feb 7, 2009 10:20 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
funny to hear the jerks calling into NY sports shows to defend him using all of our Bonds’ arguments. My favorite was the suggestion that a Red Sox fan in the lab probably leaked this info. They’re saying 103 players tested positive that year, so why is ARod the only name to come out?? Believe me, I have no problem with all of the names getting out. Selig would have a massive coronary.
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by rxmeister on Feb 7, 2009 10:36 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
BARRY BONDS WILL MAKE YOUR CHILDREN SMOKE DRUGS WHY DO YOU HATE CHILDREN???
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by jcb9 on Feb 7, 2009 10:35 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Why won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children?!?!
by Merope on Feb 7, 2009 10:51 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Great post. Hilarious.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Feb 7, 2009 2:59 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh no
you mean to tell me that a ton of players in MLB, whether we like them or not, probably used PED’s? say it ain’t so!
This just in. Corruption in government still exists too.
(My grandmother was telling a story about how in Chicago you had to pay to get a job because it was so corrupt, my uncle then said that corruption in politics doesn’t exist anymore. Probably the dumbest thing to ever come out of his mouth but it’s good for a chuckle.)
by Giant Voodoo on Feb 7, 2009 10:19 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
well to be fair
corruption in Chicago politics is kinda like the equivalent of steroid use in pro wrestling.
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by sam23 on Feb 7, 2009 10:48 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
which makes it even funnier when someone thinks it’s clean. The equivalent of trying to convince me that pro wrestling is in fact real and not staged.
by Giant Voodoo on Feb 7, 2009 11:05 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Can we publicly hang Bud Selig in Time Square yet?
This pos has continually tried to deflect blame away from MLB and onto the players and I think it’s sickening. Obviously everyone is guilty in allowing this to happen, but him specifically and the higher ups in MLB and players union had the chance to stop this numerous times and didn’t do ANYTHING. Then they had the audacity to claim ignorance for a decade, and even worse is the media LETS them get away with this, despite much evidence to the contrary. Instead they make witch hunts out of Bonds and go after these other guys who didn’t do anything the structure of the game wasn’t already allowing them to do in the first place because the greedy pos’ who actually are in charge looked the other way for so long.
Meanwhile they also took a dump all over Jose Canseco and called him a loon, when everyone SHOULD have been listening because the guy was pretty much on the forefront for when steroids became started to become in vogue in the mid to late 80s. But of course the media never talks about that. Just like they never talk about how they didn’t do their job in uncovering the massive amounts of bullshit leading up to the Iraq War. But I digress. Grrrr…..
by Hobbes2d on Feb 7, 2009 12:24 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
My question is: when are the owners going to appoint a successor to Fay Vincent? The 16+ years without a commissioner have shown that they really do require an independent and disinterested party to help them to act in their own best interests.
Go ahead and hang Bud Selig; I won’t mind. But his “leadership”, which MLB was at pains to mention again today in its response to the A-Rod report, has never been anything but a sham. The real leader in that group is Jerry Reinsdorf.
by 2X2L on Feb 7, 2009 12:56 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Well
And Fay Vincent was really just an interim option after Giamatti died too. So they’ve been without a real commissioner for some time.
by Hobbes2d on Feb 7, 2009 1:06 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
No, he wasn’t an interim commissioner. After Giamatti’s death the owners offered him the job, and he took it. Full powers, full title.
In any case, he was enough of a commissioner to foil the owner’s plans to play hardball with the union in regard to a salary cap in 1990. The owners had to get rid of him in order to ensure that 1994 would be as big a disaster as possible.
by 2X2L on Feb 7, 2009 1:19 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Selig dropped the “acting” from his commissioner’s title like ten years ago.
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by jcb9 on Feb 7, 2009 3:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, and did you know that the word “commissioner” appears in Joyce’s Ulysses five times?
by 2X2L on Feb 7, 2009 3:36 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
This reminds me of the “Pardon the Interruption” I was watching one time when steroids was brought up for some stupid reason or another and one of the guys on there (I don’t think it was one of the regulars) mentioned that unfortunately guys like A-Rod who “was above reproach” in regards to steroids will be tainted by the steroids era.
I couldn’t believe the assumption made there. I also don’t get why Griffey is never suspected….oh yeah, the smile, the backwards hat, the swing, the hustle…
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's contract.
by thehavenot on Feb 7, 2009 1:06 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
That's easy
It’s because they are likeable people or at least are perceived as such by the media as “good guys”. I’ve never gotten the Griffey love either. It’s not like he hasn’t bulked up either. If anything this just gives me even more respect for some fat tub like Tony Gwynn who was a great player for his entire career. And for a pitcher like Greg Maddux, who was dominant for a good portion of this tainted era.
by Hobbes2d on Feb 7, 2009 1:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Griffey also started breaking down at a time in his career when he should have started breaking down. Steroid users were actually getting better in their mid to late thirties. It’s not impossible that Griffey used steroids, but the fact that he didn’t get huge and had a normal career arc makes it almost impossible to point a finger at him.
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by rxmeister on Feb 9, 2009 5:54 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
No, it doesn’t. Try this: his severe hamstring injury in 2001 is indicative of the kind of tearing that occurs when muscles are overdeveloped and overstressed as a result of a workout regimen supplemented by PEDs.
Anyway, the point is that if you have a proclivity one way or the other, you can always find justifications. About almost anyone.
by 2X2L on Feb 9, 2009 8:07 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
It doesn’t matter if a player had a normal career arc. There are normal career arcs and there are abnormal ones. Sure, in his late 30s Bonds was hitting .300+ and bombs left and right. Some players just have abnormal career arcs. Steroid users have bad career arcs too, where they just don’t get going and die out when they’re 30. Those are just as abnormal as Bonds’ is.
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by WalrusMan on Feb 9, 2009 8:58 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
good point about Griffey’s injuries, but you don’t see that happening as often these days with these top multi millionaire athletes who are using PED’s. They’re using skilled doctors, trainers, and labs like Balco to take care of them, so they’re getting all the benefits of steroids with little of the risks. They’re not exactly buying their steroids from the shady little guy in the gym.
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by rxmeister on Feb 9, 2009 9:21 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I think that any generalization is risky.
I’m in a discussion with somebody at Royals Review about Mike Sweeney, whom he says “fits the profile” because he declined in his early thirties and missed a lot of time because of injuries. Meanwhile, someone else is saying that Ken Griffey doesn’t fit the profile, because he declined normally in his early thirties and missed a lot of time because of injuries.
My answer, in both cases, is this: predisposition is pretty much all we’ve got.
by 2X2L on Feb 9, 2009 12:09 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
and common sense
If you think Bonds and Clemens are clean, you must also be one of those people who thinks OJ was truly innocent
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by Useful_Idiot on Feb 9, 2009 8:45 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
and by “you”, I don’t mean you specifically. It’s a generalization
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by Useful_Idiot on Feb 9, 2009 8:45 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I was going to admit that I’ve been worried about what’s going to happen with his search for the real killer now that he’ll be locked up, but you took me off the hook. Thanks.
by 2X2L on Feb 9, 2009 8:52 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
You’re welcome
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by Useful_Idiot on Feb 9, 2009 8:53 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh man, what a pretty swing.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2009 7:49 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Take a look at Brian Giles in what he was supposed to bring power-wise to the Padres and look what his numbers are in actuality since the trade from Pittsburgh. It’s hard to say that just the dimensions of Petco could kill his numbers alone.
Then again, Ted Leitner knows for a fact that no Padre has ever used steroids. Yet, he thought A-Rod was a class act.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
by sectionop92 on Feb 9, 2009 12:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Hey now, let’s not distract from the main point of the very pretty swing here.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2009 1:14 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Alright.
Larry Walker.
Now that was a perty swing.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
by sectionop92 on Feb 9, 2009 2:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I really think you are letting your enthusiasm for the swing get you to overlook the importance of his clearly boyish, charming grin.
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's contract.
by thehavenot on Feb 9, 2009 2:48 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
The boyish, charming grin was nothing compared to the swing! NOTHING!
(Also to note: Barry had both, as well)
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by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2009 3:10 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Seriously....
…I don’t care. This entire story was boring years ago. This development does not entertain or enlighten me in the slightest.
No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
by Skaldheim on Feb 7, 2009 1:11 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
x2
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by marcello on Feb 7, 2009 1:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
^3
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
by Cookyman on Feb 7, 2009 1:33 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
^n=n+1
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Feb 7, 2009 3:05 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
-1
Schadenfreude is great entertainment.
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by Bhaakon on Feb 7, 2009 4:10 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
no way man!
I am so interested in any story about somebody roiding up 5 years ago!
The game has to be pure for the kids!
I want to declare any report about a player I like and one that plays for my home team to be false and immediately accept a report about a player I don’t like as gospel and revel in what an awful awful person they are.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Feb 7, 2009 5:10 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I want to see him slap the evidence out of the prosecutor’s hands.
This just in...Bobby Estalella can apply oral suction to a deceased pack animal's penile extremity.
by victor frankenstein on Feb 7, 2009 1:23 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
winner
"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."
by i did my job on Feb 7, 2009 5:59 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Possibly MCC Comment of the Year thus far.
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by Kitspool on Feb 8, 2009 12:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Clever, pithy, well-timed, and unsettling. As there is no legal case against A-Rod, who is prosecutor? The media? The fans? Who holds the evidence in their metaphorical hands? Indeed, what is evidence? And what are hands?
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by 2X2L on Feb 8, 2009 4:06 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
You can help keep this program going for only the cost of a coffee a day.
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 8, 2009 8:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Clever, pithy, well-timed, and unsettling
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by victor frankenstein on Feb 8, 2009 10:51 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
On the other hand, your response to the posting of Magritte painting in the “This is not an article about the perjury case” discussion absolutely sucked. You start skating on your reputation, and you will feel our wrath.
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by 2X2L on Feb 9, 2009 12:36 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
ESPN eats up these steroid stories like Pac-Man on a three day cocaine bender.
You have to care because T.J. Quinn and Mark Fainaru-Wada need to make more money off of the topic they milk for fame.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
by sectionop92 on Feb 9, 2009 12:50 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
For a second, I thought you were referring to the video game Pac Man. That puts a whole new spin on those white dots and the “ghosts”.
by Natto on Feb 9, 2009 1:45 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Can’t I have my ghosts and make it rain too?
It's always Noonan somewhere.
by sectionop92 on Feb 9, 2009 2:20 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
GET THE FRUIT GET THE FRUIT
I’M NOT GOING TO GET THE FRUIT THERE’S A GHOST THERE
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by WalrusMan on Feb 9, 2009 4:47 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
RUN AROUND GET THEM ALL AFTER YOU THEN…OH SHIT WHERE DID THAT POWER DOT GO
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by victor frankenstein on Feb 10, 2009 12:21 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Juiced HR leader being chased by juiced HR hitter
by wilriv21 on Feb 7, 2009 2:40 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
sigh. I’m just waiting for the shoe to drop about my sweet Billy and 2003.
by shanghaijim on Feb 7, 2009 6:03 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Oh fuck this shit. Mark Fanairu-Wada called it “a series of unforunate events” on ESPNews. What a stupid motherfucker.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 7, 2009 6:06 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
What does that mean, “a series of unfortunate events”? Collateral damage? Unintended consequences?
What an asshole.
by 2X2L on Feb 7, 2009 6:21 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
There was one writer on ESPNews who said he doubts Rodriguez will get into the Hall in light of this information. At least someone’s consistent in seeing it as bad across the board. Not just the Big Bad Barry.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 7, 2009 6:23 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Perhaps Fanairu-Wada finds it unfortunate that he wasn’t on the receiving end when this story was leaked. Makes it harder for him to cash in this time.
by 2X2L on Feb 7, 2009 6:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
What a fuckin tragedy.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 7, 2009 6:44 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
What a fuckin tragedy tool
Sergio Romo will gladly hand you a bench to sit on / GIANTSPACE™ / Adopted brother of the AnVil
by SoFa King Mike on Feb 7, 2009 7:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
+25
Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal
by nostocksjustbonds on Feb 8, 2009 12:56 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
ESPN must be stewing. They hired Fairanu-Wada away from the Chron and TJ Quinn away from the NY Daily News to be their big steroid investigative reporters and then Selena Roberts from SI gets this story while they’re sitting around wacking off to pictures of Barry Bonds going into a courthouse. Hopefully they got called onto the carpet on Saturday.
Brian Sabean's our GM: Not exactly the "silver bullet that's going to save the day"
by rxmeister on Feb 9, 2009 5:57 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Demoted! Effective immediately, their assignment is to appear on Baseball Tonight and agree with everything John Kruk says.
by 2X2L on Feb 9, 2009 8:12 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Daniel Handler!
This just in...Bobby Estalella can apply oral suction to a deceased pack animal's penile extremity.
by victor frankenstein on Feb 7, 2009 6:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Fanairu-Wada would have probably covered for any drunken beatdown Mickey Mantle delivered, even if it was to a polio victim.
But if Roger Maris had one wrong number on his tax returns…off to jail for a minimum of seven years.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
by sectionop92 on Feb 9, 2009 12:58 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Is it morally wrong to be pleased by this?
by Change Up on Feb 7, 2009 10:35 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Nah.
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by WalrusMan on Feb 8, 2009 1:25 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
no, it’s not morally wrong. Silly, stupid, immature, childish? Yes, it is all of those things. But it’s not morally wrong.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Feb 9, 2009 3:19 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm with you there
If you had asked me 6 weeks ago if there was a single player in MLB who I would like to see being associated w/ PED’s – It would have been Arod.
by FairweatherFan on Feb 9, 2009 3:45 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
It’s Derek Jeter for me.
Or David Eckstein.
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's contract.
by thehavenot on Feb 9, 2009 6:01 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
David Eckstein
I could use some more irony in my life
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
by Useful_Idiot on Feb 9, 2009 8:49 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
David Eckstein's baggy jersey
Was friggin’ roided. Normal jerseys don’t get hit by that many pitches.
by Sabertooth on Feb 9, 2009 9:35 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
In light of this discovery, there remains one important question
whats ur favorite ice cream flavor? mine is cookie dough.
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 7, 2009 11:08 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Chocolate.
Goes well in coffee. Rocky Road leaves too much debris.
This just in...Bobby Estalella can apply oral suction to a deceased pack animal's penile extremity.
by victor frankenstein on Feb 8, 2009 12:48 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I love Rocky Roid
Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal
by nostocksjustbonds on Feb 8, 2009 12:56 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Regular stuff: tin roof Sundae.
Ben and Jerry’s: Cherry Garcia.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 8, 2009 8:36 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Mitchell's Grasshopper Fudge
Mint + Fudge + Chips = Perfect
Barry Zito - Mildly half-OK! Sometimes.
by Revolution1 on Feb 8, 2009 12:13 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
noted! I live a short walk from there so I’ll hit up that flavor next time.
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 8, 2009 8:09 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I’ve made popcorn and sat down to read the BBTF thread on this. Shows you my bubble of Giants-pitching-only-land — it never really sunk in that A-Rod is now the face of baseball and that he’s taken seriously. I stopped taking him seriously when he moved to Texas.
by shanghaijim on Feb 8, 2009 4:07 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
bleh, didn’t even have enough posts to finish a bowl. Strayed into Excel formulae and forced tangents. I’m going back to the FanFest thread.
by shanghaijim on Feb 8, 2009 4:39 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I hear his stripper girlfriend used steroids too...
A picture is worth a thousand words…
"It kind of gives everybody else out there who is not a big person the motivation and the inspiration that they know they can do it, too."--Tim Lincecum
by Timlincecum.com on Feb 8, 2009 1:07 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Ew
This isn’t actually a girl is it? If those are her pecs where are her boobs?
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 8, 2009 8:11 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
There is really no point
in asking such questions.
by Sabertooth on Feb 8, 2009 11:43 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Innocent until proven guilty
you have no evidence that she used steroids, so I demand to see a urine test. I’ll wait here while you go get it!
Brian Sabean's our GM: Not exactly the "silver bullet that's going to save the day"
by rxmeister on Feb 9, 2009 6:00 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
No wonder A-Rod’s wife got pissed when she got to 3% body fat and A-Rod still called her a cow.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
by sectionop92 on Feb 9, 2009 2:23 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Goodbye, everyone
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
by Useful_Idiot on Feb 9, 2009 8:51 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Alex , you have a little yeast infection on your upper lip there.
OK if I adopt Randy Johnson?
"What kind of a stupid question is that?"
by victor frankenstein on Feb 8, 2009 10:55 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
man, the media is really going apeshit over this one.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Feb 9, 2009 12:07 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I know. Everytime I turn on SportsCenter (I know, bad idea but it’s what I put on in the background in the mornings) it’s on.
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by WalrusMan on Feb 9, 2009 8:59 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
As Scott Ostler said, Michael Phelps sent ARRod a box of chocolates as a thank you.
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
by Goofus on Feb 9, 2009 12:35 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That has to be true. Now if he could photoshop some pictures of ARod getting high…
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by WalrusMan on Feb 9, 2009 4:48 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Steroids are the symbol for everything that is wrong (different) with the game of baseball (the game that typical sports writer grew up watching and has since romanticized).
Steroids are the wrong!!!!!!
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's contract.
by thehavenot on Feb 9, 2009 12:10 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
So he apologized. Should help him out in the future.
by cheno on Feb 9, 2009 11:32 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
hey, Curt Schilling finally weighed in on the matter!
I know that I speak for everybody when I say that ever since the story broke I have been thinking “I wonder what Curt Schilling thinks of this.”
by FluLikeSymptoms on Feb 9, 2009 11:45 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I only wish his bloody sock would start its own weblog, too.
Never has a poster been more correct in the history of the internet. Ever! - ResDog on yours truly
by jcb9 on Feb 9, 2009 11:59 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
They played some of the A-Rod interview on NFL Live.
ESPN has gone too far even by their own crazed, megalomaniac standards.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
by sectionop92 on Feb 9, 2009 2:27 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Just watched the interview with Gammons
ESPN has a conversation between A-Rod and Peter Gammons up on their site now. Rodriguez seemed to me to be genuinely contrite and as honest as he could be without admitting to criminal actions, but one thing nagged at me: that guy is totally wearing colored contacts.
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
by antinous on Feb 9, 2009 1:24 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Performance enhancing colored contacts?
by FairweatherFan on Feb 9, 2009 2:13 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe it improves the hitter’s backdrop.
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
by antinous on Feb 9, 2009 2:31 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Sepia
by FairweatherFan on Feb 9, 2009 2:55 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
is he upset because he once used steroids, or is he upset that he got caught?? What proof does anyone have that he didn’t switch to HGH as soon as steroid testing came in?? He better be careful because like Bonds, he’s not a popular guy. Someone will come crawling out of the woodwork with some proof of further use.
Brian Sabean's our GM: Not exactly the "silver bullet that's going to save the day"
by rxmeister on Feb 9, 2009 7:26 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I think it’s unbelievably sad that Barak Obama had to field a question on how he feels about A-Rod’s positive test during today’s press conference.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2009 5:52 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I know, right?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Feb 9, 2009 6:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Say what?
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by WalrusMan on Feb 9, 2009 6:29 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I said, “I think it’s unbelievably sad that Barak Obama had to field a question on how he feels about A-Rod’s positive test during today’s press conference.”
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2009 7:37 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
What's sad is that the Washington Post reporter who asked about A-Rod was too much of a pussy to ask Obama anything substantial about the biggest pork spending bill in human history.
That’s even more sad than us talking about how sad it is that we’re talking about A-Rod.
by Sabertooth on Feb 9, 2009 7:49 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Mmmm… pork….
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2009 8:35 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I prefer ham.
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by WalrusMan on Feb 9, 2009 9:10 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I’m a bacon guy, but I can pay for it myself.
by Sabertooth on Feb 9, 2009 9:36 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
If only there was some magical animal that could give us all three….
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2009 9:53 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I was a little disappointed in his answer, which was basically “think about the chidlren!”
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
by SF Pete on Feb 9, 2009 6:45 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
His answer was the same bullshit worthless political answer that any politician would give. I think it is unbelievably stupid that somebody would ask him about that as though this was a matter of national importance or something.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Feb 9, 2009 8:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Millions of people now don’t know where the next mortgage payment or groceries will come from and A-Rod has the audacity to play the “pressure and youth” cards when he was going to be guaranteed millions of dollars regardless when he hit free agency.
I feel very little for the plight of the pro athlete in some regards, but A-Rod just lowered the bar by opening his mouth.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
by sectionop92 on Feb 9, 2009 8:34 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
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