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duck, duck, IDIOT!

this is a pretty dumb comment if true

Wow...we want people to tell the truth and then we slam them for it...all he said was what half the other ball players out there would have said if they told the truth...he didn't say he did them people!!

The guy admits he is human and that the temptation would have been there. So? Like, any of us would be so different if we were in that position and presented with the same choices. I think as time goes by we will find a lot of good and homnroable men were forced with deciding whther to do PEDs or not just to keep on a par with their competition. I do not blame people for falling prey to these tmeptations. Hell, stuff happens.

Regardless, still the best moustache in any sport.

so now this stupid thing posts when idon't want it to; Arrrgghhhhh!
What i was saying is:
Hell, stuff happens... I just want people to, as Goose alluded to yesterday, to fess up so we can put things back in order and then move on. I just want the playing field leveled again and rules and punishments in place for breaking those rules to be established and implemented. I just want the sport I love to become a little more like an actual sport again. That isn't too much to ask for is it? We are a very forgiving people but you have to admit your wrongs so that we can forgive and you have todo it with a little humility and actual conviction.

This is a coy ploy to lessen the intensity of the public's desire to witch hunt.

"I would have probably done it," Goose Gossage said, referring to steroids. "I'm a free spirit. I like to have fun. I was a competitor.

give me a break if his comments were. I would have probably done it. I'm a drugee, I like to cheat, I love the shortcuts. then it would have made sense to me, but to say I am a competitor thats a joke, if he took it he wouldn't be competing with anything except his ego.

Tough call. Goose was a salty, established old pro.

But if I was a minor leaguer on the fringes and I thought 'roids could get me to the next level, make me a pincushion.

The guy admits he is human and that the temptation would have been there. So? Like, any of us would be so different if we were in that position and presented with the same choices. I think as time goes by we will find a lot of good and homnroable men were forced with deciding whther to do PEDs or not just to keep on a par with their competition. I do not blame people for falling prey to these tmeptations. Hell, stuff happens.

4192jc | 01/10/08

This reminds me of the article on HardBallTImes that I linked to. I think a lot of guys that weren't/aren't comfortable with steroids took them as a way to remain competitive.

No,, Whalers, it does make sense. Read my previous post. Do you even begin to realize the temptaion and the pressure that was on these guys to keep up with their competitors? And that is the part of this that makes it so sad. That baseball, a microcosm of our society, has become so competive and so greedy and vicious in that greed that it loses its very meaning and reason for existence: To be a sport to enjoy and to be an escape for us the fan from our daily tasks of trying to make a living in this world. Gordon Gecko is being proven right after all "greed is good." I think that is so very sad.
And, please, do not read this as an apology for those who did PEDs because it isn't. I just think I understand why these guys did what they did and why they did it. it doesn't make it right and I don't condone it but I will forgive them if they truly show remrose and respect to us and to the game.
As I said before who among us wouldn't fall prey to this insidious temptation to succeed? I think I would have if I was in their situation. I don't hink i could have been that strong not to resist the desire to be in the spotlight that much if I had the actual ability that most of these guys have. Ego and greed go hand in hand and makes for a very heady punch.

And I agree, Slinkster.

BTW, you should post that link again, Slinky.

This guy was incredible. This comment is no big deal. He's just being honest. He makes his view on steroids clear in the article for those of you that bother to actually read them and not just the paragraph on this page.

He is a Yankee...........

Honestly!!! Every SINGLE one of you would take HGH if it meant 1, 5, 10 MILLION dollars!!! I would not have voted in Goose to the HOF because I think closers are overrated. However, I would certainly vote for him now. I think his honesty shows an integrity that is missing with sports, and it's something missing from all of you people throwing stones.

He played about 20-25% of his career with the Yankees.

He also made some statements against the steroid era. The media is playing games with his words. I don't think this is an endorsement of steroids, rather an acknowledgement of his own personal composition, prevelent attitudes, and a bit of honesty. Always liked the Goose for his openness.

He is a Yankee, a HoF Yankee. I know he pitched for nine teams, but he is going in as a Yankee.

Anyone who's actually interested in understanding how steroids became so prevalent in baseball should welcome the perspective of a a guy who's honest enough to acknowledge his basic human nature. Guys took steroids like teenagers have sex.

If you think he's an idiot of admitting to the temptation, then you can't handle the truth. And BTW, your kids want to have sex as much as other kids. Really, they do.

But it's a perfect headline for the haters' orgy...you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't.