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Tenbatsuzen

08-17-2006, 08:06 PM

<a href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/columnists/davenewhouse/ci_4188715" target="_self">My Divorce from Baseball</a> How self-serving can someone be? If you have a suspicion that someone cheated... don't vote for them.  But don't make a statement that you're resigning from the Writers' association AND THEN writing a congratulatory column about what you did.

HBox

08-17-2006, 08:20 PM

It's nice to see Blowhard is getting stuff published. But steroids haven't
ever been legal, and for a while they weren't illegal either,[/b] not until
their terrible blight on the game was discovered in a Burlingame
laboratory run by a despicable cad.  I'm a little tired right now so I'm not sure, but does that make sense to anybody. 

This message was edited by HBox on 8-18-06 @ 12:20 AM

Tenbatsuzen

08-17-2006, 08:23 PM

HBox wrote: It's nice to see Blowhard is getting stuff published. But steroids haven't
ever been legal, and for a while they weren't illegal either, not until
their terrible blight on the game was discovered in a Burlingame
laboratory run by a despicable cad. I'm a little tired right now so I'm not sure, but does that make sense to anybody. 

    It's West Coast sportswriting from a San Francisco columnist.  Just let it sit there.

FezPaul

08-17-2006, 08:26 PM

When Buck O'Neil was on "The Show" with Dibble and Kennedy, they asked him about steroids.He said if they had had them then people would have used them.The "heroes" this guy idolizes are only pure by virtue of playing before this stuff was available.Athletes can never let me down because I've never built them up.It's just a game.

HeyGuy

08-17-2006, 08:29 PM

Great find tenb.This guy should get off his soap box. He has no idea what people did during the time when his beloved stan the man played. Maybe they were doing something back then too. But we will never know because they never tested and the media would hide things they knew about their beloved sports figures. Todays media wants to fuck over people so even if a story is true or not, todays media will report it and destroy people.This part made me laugh."And I'm not referring to Gaylord Perry, whom I voted into Cooperstown for two reasons: I don't know how often he used the spitball, and there are spitballers in Cooperstown from a time when the pitch was legal. "First steroids were not illegal at the time that bonds, sosa or mguire may have taken them. Since they have become illegal none of them have tested positive. 2nd he talked about not voting someone because of possible illegal actions (those players were never proven) yet he admits to voteing in aguy who did cheat when the spitball was illegal. So why is this any different?Im glad he handed in his card hes a blow hard.

HeyGuy

08-17-2006, 08:34 PM

FezPaul wrote: When Buck O'Neil was on "The Show" with Dibble and Kennedy, they asked him about steroids.He said if they had had them then people would have used them.The "heroes" this guy idolizes are only pure by virtue of playing before this stuff was available.Athletes can never let me down because I've never built them up.It's just a game. agreed 100%I watch costas now and he had 3 players cant remember who they were but they said if steroids were available back then they would have used them. I hate to say it but a lot of people would cheat to play major league ball. No one likes it, but Jose may be right when he said 90% used steroids in the 80's and 90's. Even some of our most loved players.Like Fezpaul said athletes cant let you down if you dont build them up. They are all human and humans make mistakes. Charles Barkley said it best "Im not a role model" He always said athletes shouldnt be your kids role models but the parents of that child should be.

keithy_19

08-18-2006, 11:45 AM

For the record, Bonds never touched the stuff. <img title="Looks the same to me!" height="388" alt="Looks the same to me!" src="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~samcat/bondscompare.jpg" width="400" border="0" />

Sheeplovr

08-18-2006, 11:54 AM

i hate sports writers cause what more do they have ot say then the score what a waste of money they get paid for this junk

crb1

08-18-2006, 12:00 PM

It's nice of him to martyr himself for the greater good of the baseball world, especially at a time when fans are so sick of the media beating the dead horse that is steroids.  I'm glad he can remember the good old days before baseball was marred by big contracts, bloated egos and steroids.  The era he loved never had those problems, or any others (like racism, drinking, or gambling...).  *cough*He grew up in an era when players played their entire careers with one team, not because they were stuck there and forced to play for nothing while owners got rich, but because they loved their team.  Why the old Brooklyn Dodgers lived right near Ebbets Field and could walk to the park, just because they wanted to.  Not because ownership treated them like slaves and paid them pennies in comparison to the money they earned for the team.  It's just awful that steroids have replaced whiskey for breakfast and cocaine for dinner.  It's a shame that players have cheated by getting bigger with drugs, instead of destroying their lives and pissing away their money.  God bless the 1950's, when everything was right with the world.

Marc with a c

08-18-2006, 12:20 PM

This is why people hate sportswriters...but you do like nascar writers.

Bulldogcakes

08-18-2006, 05:35 PM

Tenbatsuzen wrote: <a target="_self" href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/columnists/davenewhouse/ci_4188715">My Divorce from Baseball</a> How self-serving can someone be? If you have a suspicion that someone cheated... don't vote for them. But don't make a statement that you're resigning from the Writers' association AND THEN writing a congratulatory column about what you did.  And potentially giving the BWAA card to someone who WILL vote for the juicers, damaging the game further. And now baseball is losing one of the voices against that may persuade others to his point of view. There's an old Catholic saying "The severed arm doesn't heal the body" He should think twice about this.   <blockquote />

Don Stugots

08-18-2006, 05:44 PM

keithy_19 wrote: For the record, Bonds never touched the stuff. <img title="Looks the same to me!" height="388" alt="Looks the same to me!" src="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~samcat/bondscompare.jpg" width="400" border="0" />its not even the same person.  he could have just changed his name to "fred flintstone" and no one would have been the wiser.