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Zwitek

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Posted Saturday August 01, 2009, About: Nomar questions PED list's validity

What a peculiar thing to say. I can't imagine why Nomar was so quiet for so long. I can't understand why Nomar didn't talk to Mitchell and offer this explanation. What does Nomar have to gain? What does he have to hide?

Posted Wednesday June 17, 2009, About: MLB, Selig upset with steroid leaks

Hilarious that the man is now resorting to pointing the finger at the NFL. Kennesaw Mountain Landis, and Bud Selig, two commissioners that did some good, but will always be remembered for their greatest scandals- Landis- maintaining the color barrier. Selig- Steroids.

Posted Monday June 01, 2009, About: NHL looking into Caps steroids claim

Tony Twist was a juicer. Probert was too. Guarantee there are others. Many others. Alex Rodriguez has laid to rest that steroid users are bulky, hulking, behemoths like Bonds and McGwire. Certain PED's can give you increased strength, and the ability to recover without making you a gargantuan statue.

If any sport would get added benefit from steroids and HGH, it is the NHL, the most punishing sport of all, where recovery from day to day is most important.

Posted Sunday May 10, 2009, About: Saunders: A-Rod's All-Star appearances are over

He takes exception to the NOTION that fans have adopted a forgive-and-forget attitude..... Not that he THINKS that fans have.

He is basically saying that he thinks fans have NOT adopted a forgive and forget, and neither has he.

Posted Sunday May 10, 2009, About: A-Rod: It's time to grow up

I was trying to mention how much I enjoyed seeing the effects of steroids through his shirt, but apparently I cannot reference a female dogs mammaries.

Posted Sunday May 10, 2009, About: A-Rod: It's time to grow up

I like his **** ****.

Posted Saturday April 25, 2009, About: Why NHL may suspend Tortorella

How drunk does one have to be to throw away a $12 beer in THIS economy?

Posted Friday March 20, 2009, About: Rangers unimpressed with Jones

What Special Olympian thought that he might impress anyone at this stage of his career?

Posted Sunday March 15, 2009, About: McGwire instructing A's, Cardinals hitters

I am convinced that for the HoF to remain relevant, they cannot admit the generation of juicers. It's the one "punishment" that the millionaire cheats will understand.

You can't take their money away, you can't take their records* away, but you can choose to not celebrate them.

The Hall of Fame is a celebration of a players achievement in the game, to admit them is to condone their cheating.

To think that exclusion from the hall doesn't mean anything is stupid. Look at Pete Rose and how it eats at him for not being in the hall. He cares, they all care. Pete Rose will die a bitter man if he doesn't get in the hall, and you know what? He made the choices that put him in that position.

Same goes for Bonds, Mac, Sosa, Clemens, A-Roid, and all the rest. No hall. No celebrating. Leave them to their ill gotten gains, and all that money.

Posted Sunday March 15, 2009, About: Economic crisis concerns Selig

All that money, power, and fame, and he still looks the part of the old used car salesman.

Posted Sunday March 15, 2009, About: McGwire instructing A's, Cardinals hitters

I agree entirely, but the fact that the juicers can still do whatever they want irritates me no end.

Posted Saturday March 14, 2009, About: McGwire instructing A's, Cardinals hitters

Pete Rose is not allowed anywhere near baseball, and yet the juicers still have free reign.

Posted Saturday March 14, 2009, About: Twins, Giants join race for Pudge

The Giants want this juicer, but not the juicer king? Odd.

Posted Tuesday March 10, 2009, About: La Russa's 'roids stance conflicted?

The more we find out about the steroid era, the more we find out about the Union pressure to remain silent or ignorant, the more heroic Jose Canseco becomes.

Sure, at first I thought him just a sad case trying to make a buck after he'd squandered his fortune from his playing days.

After all that I've heard since, about Orza tipping players, Union involvement in an effort to sabotage the first round of sample testing (to prevent the mandatory testing the next season), and the lack of a single solitary player to publicly decry what was going on, I think the game needed Jose to be the whistleblower.

No one else would man up and do it. Not the owners who not only colluded with each other to keep the game juiced, but with the Union. Not the Union, who clearly didn't have the players best interests in mind except in the financial realm. Not the players, with examples like Cammy who felt it completely worth it to set his family up for life. Not the fans, who cheered Bonds, Sammy, Mac, and the rest.

Jose alone brought the greatest scandal in baseball history to light.

Jose Canseco- Baseball drug cheat, imperfect human being, and yes, HERO.

Posted Saturday March 07, 2009, About: Guerrero's year older than reported

or their bodies.

Posted Saturday February 14, 2009, About: Report: Personal shopper saw Bonds injected

As much as I loathe Bonds and the Roid-kit, I'd settle for this also. We know it's coming, at some point they'll have to admit it, both to themselves, and to the public.

They should just both cut plea deals, admit their indiscretions and fade away without jail.

Posted Saturday February 14, 2009, About: Report: Personal shopper saw Bonds injected

The lesson here kids, is don't lie to the Federal Government. If they could get Capone, they can get an arrogant millionaire ball player.

Posted Saturday February 14, 2009, About: Why Aaron doesn't want HR record

It's one thing to be a Barry Fan, and another to be a Barry Apologist. Claiming that speed makes you hit the ball farther than without is ridiculous. Awake, alert? Absolutely. If you weigh a buck fifty and can't hit the ball out of the infield, taking speed won't make you start launching rockets to the moon, nor will it cause warning track flies to become homers.

I also take umbrage at anyone claiming that someone from the past would take the juice if it had been around then. There is no way these people could claim to know what was in a persons heart or mind, just because they drank their liver away.

Posted Thursday February 12, 2009, About: Selig considers punishing A-Rod

Where do you guys get this nonsense from? It was against the rules, AS published. What did not exist were testing protocols, or punishments.

Just because those two things did not exist (which must be collectively bargained, by law) does not mean it wasn't illegal, or against the rules.

From page 10 and 11 of the Mitchell Report-

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SR-10
Many have asserted that steroids and other performance enhancing substances
were not banned in Major League Baseball before the 2002 Basic Agreement. This is not
accurate. Beginning in 1971 and continuing today, Major League Baseball???s drug policy has
prohibited the use of any prescription medication without a valid prescription.

Steroids have been listed as a prohibited
substance under the Major League Baseball drug policy since then, although no player was
disciplined for steroid use before the prohibition was added to the collective bargaining
agreement in 2002.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Clear enough?

Posted Thursday February 12, 2009, About: Selig considers punishing A-Rod

Stop spreading BS. It was illegal (both according to the laws of the United States of America, and in MLB.). It was in violation of MLB's rules- notably before 1991 and Fay Vincent's banning of steroids- Abuse of prescription drugs....

Have you rubes not even read the Mitchell Report?

On topic however, Bud Selig is a bloody mess as a commissioner. I just don't even know where to start with this guy, but I wish we could be finished with him. It's time for someone with stones to step up and go Kennesaw Mountain Landis on people. Just ban them all and start over.

Posted Saturday February 07, 2009, About: Sources: A-Rod tested positive in MVP season

Wow, just freaking WOW.

Canseco was frikking right about so much. God danged cheaters. I will admit, that I had hoped that Jose was wrong about A-Rod, because I really wanted a clean player to own the HR record. Alas, the HR record will always be held by a danged doping drug cheat freakoid.