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Steroids

McGwire needs to truly come clean

January 28, 2010

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.

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I love Jack Clark … and Carlton Fisk

January 20, 2010

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 of reason, because they will point out the truth.
When a player who puts up obscene [...]

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Mark McGwire's carefully planned mea culpa

January 14, 2010

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 …"
Crisis-communications company?
People actually pay for this kind of stuff?
This proves a long-held theory of mine: [...]

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The U.S. went a bit far in the steroid/Balco case

August 27, 2009

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 the Balco case.
The ruling also makes clear that baseball never had a “list” of players [...]

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Another baseball juicer takes a fall

July 31, 2009

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 makes them laughable. The cornerstones of those teams were juicing.
There's a list of 103 from [...]

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Keep the steroid users out

July 21, 2009

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 sports aer jealous.

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