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McGwire needs to truly come clean
Ken Rosenthal of FOX has it so right: Mark McGwire's admissions and apologies were a joke. Though fairness prompts me to point out Rosenthal did not actually use the word "joke." I did. Because it applies.
I love Jack Clark … and Carlton Fisk
Add Carlton Fisk to the list of ex-baseball players who should be admired for calling the steroid group what they are: A bunch of hypocrites. Ex-players who know their statistics can never match the ones of those who cheated might just be voices … Continue reading
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Mark McGwire's carefully planned mea culpa
The New York Times points out that Mark McGwire's "come clean" strategy and tearful confessions were "coordinated over the past month by Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary who runs a crisis-communications company, and the St. Louis Cardinals … Continue reading
The U.S. went a bit far in the steroid/Balco case
The U.S. Court of Appeals made an interesting and potentially far-reaching decision Wednesady when it ruled that the government acted irresponsibly by seizing all drug-testing records of baseball rather than merely the records of the players they were investigating in … Continue reading
Another baseball juicer takes a fall
David Ortiz becomes the latest star and denier of wrongdoing to show up on the 2003 steroid list. He joins Manny Ramirez. What does this do to the Red Sox World Series championships? That's not hard to figure. It pretty much … Continue reading
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Keep the steroid users out
Terence Moore gets a little preachy here, but I agree with his stance: No juicers should make baseball’s Hall of Fame. This also gives me the chance to put the category "steroids" under MLB in this drog. Betcha the other … Continue reading
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