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What a great week.
We finally have an answer to the questions of "why did Roger Clemens bean Mike Piazza in the head with a fastball?" and "why did Roger Clemens throw the barrel of a bat at Mike Piazza?" and "why did Roger Clemens keep getting better and better as he got older and older, just like Barry did?"
The nectar of the baseball gods. The juice. Now both the best hitter and the best pitcher of this era are probably not going to the Hall of Fame. There will be no debate about whether Bonds will wear a Pirates cap or a significantly larger Giants cap. The dunce cap fits just fine. Nobody will get to guess whether Clemens goes in as a Red Sock, a Blue Jay, a Yankee or an Astro. Now he's just something that sounds a little like Astro.
No prominent Mets were named, at least not those prominent after the '80s — sorry Lenny — and there were 20 players with ties to the Yankees. It's a beautiful thing, if not just to be able to bust chops. The Mets' 2 rings don't really hold up in an argument across town.
"You are watching YES, the home of cheaters."
Copyright that one Hank. Come to think of it, maybe we should look into Bob Sheppard too. Fifty years as public address announcer for the Giants? Fifty-six years and counting for the Yankees? What kind of PA announcer hits his prime in his 90s? Check his locker.
Yes, the Mitchell Report was the big news for the past few days. Big deal. The only players who you didn't expect to see on the list were the players who obviously did not benefit from using performance-enhancing drugs. Paxton Crawford comes to mind. And quickly leaves it again. By the way, isn't the phrase "performance-enhancing drugs" the "weapons of mass destruction" of the sports world? PEDs from now on.
My favorite part of this whole debacle is that Senator Mitchell has the gall to tell the public to focus on the report, not the names within it. Really Senator? Don't focus on the names? So I guess you assume that news and sports channels carried your press conference live, every newspaper had front-page coverage and countless Internet sites had links to both the press conference and to the report itself for the sole purpose of us finding out whether or not baseball has a steroid problem?
Without the names you are basically saying that it took 20 months of research for you and your expert team to figure out that baseball players take steroids and HGH and should stop it. We all knew that. The names are the only thing we cared about and frankly, they weren't that surprising.
"Drugs are bad, m'kay?" Twenty months and that's what you got? Thanks Senator Mackey. When does spring training start?
We finally have an answer to the questions of "why did Roger Clemens bean Mike Piazza in the head with a fastball?" and "why did Roger Clemens throw the barrel of a bat at Mike Piazza?" and "why did Roger Clemens keep getting better and better as he got older and older, just like Barry did?"
The nectar of the baseball gods. The juice. Now both the best hitter and the best pitcher of this era are probably not going to the Hall of Fame. There will be no debate about whether Bonds will wear a Pirates cap or a significantly larger Giants cap. The dunce cap fits just fine. Nobody will get to guess whether Clemens goes in as a Red Sock, a Blue Jay, a Yankee or an Astro. Now he's just something that sounds a little like Astro.
No prominent Mets were named, at least not those prominent after the '80s — sorry Lenny — and there were 20 players with ties to the Yankees. It's a beautiful thing, if not just to be able to bust chops. The Mets' 2 rings don't really hold up in an argument across town.
"You are watching YES, the home of cheaters."
Copyright that one Hank. Come to think of it, maybe we should look into Bob Sheppard too. Fifty years as public address announcer for the Giants? Fifty-six years and counting for the Yankees? What kind of PA announcer hits his prime in his 90s? Check his locker.
Yes, the Mitchell Report was the big news for the past few days. Big deal. The only players who you didn't expect to see on the list were the players who obviously did not benefit from using performance-enhancing drugs. Paxton Crawford comes to mind. And quickly leaves it again. By the way, isn't the phrase "performance-enhancing drugs" the "weapons of mass destruction" of the sports world? PEDs from now on.
My favorite part of this whole debacle is that Senator Mitchell has the gall to tell the public to focus on the report, not the names within it. Really Senator? Don't focus on the names? So I guess you assume that news and sports channels carried your press conference live, every newspaper had front-page coverage and countless Internet sites had links to both the press conference and to the report itself for the sole purpose of us finding out whether or not baseball has a steroid problem?
Without the names you are basically saying that it took 20 months of research for you and your expert team to figure out that baseball players take steroids and HGH and should stop it. We all knew that. The names are the only thing we cared about and frankly, they weren't that surprising.
"Drugs are bad, m'kay?" Twenty months and that's what you got? Thanks Senator Mackey. When does spring training start?
posted by Mike W at
9:43 AM
1 Comments:
Part of me says that Mitchell was right to say "focus on the report" -- to me, the repercussions should filter down to regulation at the high school level. That's where the real problem is.
I'm a little confused by the "no prominent Mets" thing -- didn't most of this thing derive from their clubhouse?
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