Posts Tagged ‘steroids’
7.29.10 11:20 pm by Alex
The ESPN.com felt it necessary to adjust A-Rod’s home run total (perhaps an estimation without ‘roids, though I’d have him somewhere around 510). Either that or 567 is some sort of milestone I didn’t know about.
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7.10.10 6:42 pm by Alex
Last night I had the opportunity (I almost called it a privilege, but that wouldn’t be true) to be at a minor league baseball game in Little Rock, Arkansas where MLB-MVP-turned-laughingstock Jose Canseco would continue his boxing “career” against Gary Hogan, a 60-year old assistant athletic director from a local university.
How did this all come about, you ask? Like most of Canseco’s actions over the last decade, this match occurred because he’s a bankrupt attention whore (check out his Wikipedia page for a breakdown of his escapades, including attempting to “rent” a day with him at his house for $5,000). I’m not sure what his payday was for this event, but I’m sure it wouldn’t take much to have Canseco wrestle a midget at your next birthday party.
So, Friday evening, I headed out to the ballpark, camera in hand, to witness this debacle.
The ring was set up as the fans were arriving. I’ve been to 5-6 games here this year, and I’ve never seen the place this full and well before the game at that. As far as minor league promotions go, this was pretty effective. (more…)
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1.15.10 7:59 pm by Alex and Pat
Alex and Pat cover the Lane Kiffin hiring, Mark McGwire’s steroid confession, a few NBA odds & ends and preview this weekend’s NFL games.
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10.28.09 12:25 pm by Bernie
Philadelphia Phillies fans will have their say again on Halloween when Alex Rodriguez steps into the batter’s box. As they did in Game 3 against the Dodgers and Manny Ramirez, they will chant “Steroids” in that long, drawn out way that fans have started using in recent years. It started with Barry Bonds, and is now carrying onto the likes of Manny, A-Rod and David Ortiz.
While I, or anyone else for that matter, cannot stop the Phillies fans from chanting it, it does point to the growing hypocrisy amongst fans these days. Lenny Dykstra admitted to his steroid use and even talked to the Commissioner’s office about it after his playing days were over. So they are not above having a player who used performance-enhancing drugs on their roster either. I am willing to bet that every team in Major League Baseball has, at one point or another, had a steroid user on their team. It wasn’t until recently that MLB finally decided to do something about it, and that was only when the federal government stepped in.
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8.07.09 11:48 am by Will
DISCLAIMER: Most of this post is predicated on the idea that Jose Canseco is telling the truth, which is a pretty dicey assumption. I would like to mention that I am not attempting to cast suspicion upon anyone I am about to list, which has a history of getting bloggers in trouble. I’m not accusing anyone of using steroids, really. I’m just saying that out of anyone in Cooperstown, almost by process of elimination, it would have most likely been these people. Once again, this is all merely speculation, and I mean no harm. Also, I talk about Bud Selig for a few hundred words before getting to the list, so be patient.
The recent news about Ortiz and Manny was especially painful for Red Sox fans like me. I am going to attempt to be ignorant and believe that neither were juicing in the curse-breaking year of 2004, but that isn’t really feasible. At least I could look forward to the Sox facing the Orioles 6 out of 10 games, and beating them like a rented mule. (I have a irrational dislike for the O’s, for some reason, even though they are perennially under .500 and Camden Yards is like Fenway South. It might be because they were our bogey team during the first half of the decade. Now… not so much.) But anyway, almost as important as this revelation about Ortiz and the 2004 Sox is the comment that Baseball’s Prophet, Jose Canseco, released in its wake: “When you tell me something I didn’t already know, I’ll be surprised,” Canseco told ESPN. “And I’ll tell you this, Major League Baseball is going to have a big, big problem on their hands when they find out they have a Hall of Famer who’s used.”
Uh Oh.
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7.21.09 1:26 pm by Pat
While there are countless things that I am excited about for the upcoming NFL football season, there are also a handful of things that I really don’t want to see and/or hear about. I struggled to come up with 10 total things and some may seem like a stretch because, well, they are. I really, really like watching football so it can be hard to complain about. If anyone, however, can find some faults and flaws, then I’m that guy. So here is my list, in no particular order of annoyance.
1. Anything combining Chad ochocinco/Johnson and Twitter in the same sentence
I’ve already heard enough from #85 this summer to last me several seasons. From the whole “Ochocinco” thing, to finding out he forgot to capitalize the first letter when he legally changed his name so he has to go by “ochocinco”, to him saying he is going to ingore the request of the NFL and tweet during games, I’m tired of hearing about him. I don’t mind his touchdown celebrations, but the problem is you have to score touchdowns in order to do them. Chad had 4 TDs last year and his worst overall season since his rookie year. You could say he pulled a Freddie Mitchell last year, and by that I mean talking substantially more than your on the field performance allocates. Speaking of Mitchell, aka “FredEx”, how is this for irony? Chad needs to get off the Twitter and let his performance speak for itself.
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