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I have no links to this, but I'm still posting.
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In the last two days, A-Rod finally confessed and Miguel Tejada is charged with lying about his steroid use to Congress.
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I think EVERY questionable record should be restored to the rightful owners. That, to me, means to the guys who didn't cheat. This of course will cause some holes in the record books. OK, put A-rod and Tejada, and McGuire, et al in there, WITH an asterisk saying they cheated.
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I think they should have to forfeit any money made on the field for those years too. Will that leave them broke, or even owing money? If so, tough.
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Nobody worried about Michael Milken eating when he paid his fines in the 1980's. No one is worried about Bernie Madoff eating after he's paid everyone back. Remember Kenny Lay?
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Screw these pampered, cheating baseball morons, bankrupt the cheating SOBs, Burger King is hiring!!!
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Schteveo hates cheaters
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Jimbo,
what happened to your tirade about that skunk HLF? I read half of it and it locked up, then it disappeared.
Too bad, I was enjoying it.
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who cares about A-Roid and all these other overpaid freaks? If folks stopped watching these boring baseball games, they could get real jobs
They could probably get positions in the Anointed One's administration. Drug Czars.
When we look at these Gazillionaire sports cheaters, what we're seeing is our society. To me, professional sports stopped being a sport when the Dodgers left Brooklyn. Now, it's all business, not sports. To actually pay some nitwit $2.5 MILLION "A MONTH" (A-Wad's salary) is obscene. What the hell would they pay him if he were as good as he thinks he is, or as good as the Yankee announcers make him seem?
For the most part, they're all street kids who never saw anything bigger than a $20. bill before being "discovered". (or invented?) Does anyone really expect them to stay sane and in control of themselves?
Then of course, there are the fools in the stands, who pay $10. for a hot dog just to watch some cheating phonies play. What does this say about us as a people? You can go and watch wrestling for a lot less, and it has the same degree of reality. (BTW, the only sports i enjoy are professional billiards and auto racing)
P.S. Records of all players found to have cheated should be erased! Also, MLB should be punished for ignoring this problem for so long simply to make money.
Since they "outed" A-Rod for using PEDs, they should also "out" the 103 other MLBers that tested positive.
The 2003 tests were supposed to be anonymous. It was the player's union that kept the answer key around for the Feds to find when they were investigating Bonds.
Let the public see what other big names (or bench warmers) are on the list. Why let A-Rod get all the glory?
I agree, Spidey. And I don't think they even check the NBA players.
If they "really" checked, sports would be no more and Billions would be lost by teams, players, and above all, sponsers and TV, which is why they don't really check!
Take a look at Barry Bonds at different points during his career and tell me he isn't juicing. Take a look at Mark McGwire in his playing days. He looked like Paul Bunyan. Now, after retirement, he looks like a normal human being.
That said, I don't know why we care. We don't care that Pamela Anderson has enhanced her physical appearance with gallons of silicone. We don't care that the wrestlers in the WWE are obviously the product of anabolic steroids and HGH. The problem with professional sports is that there is too much wealth concentrated in the hands of people who lack the maturity to handle it.
I don't know the state of A Rod's current contract; but let's just assume that he is still playing under the 10-year, $252 million deal he signed when he went from the Mariners to the Rangers. If that's the case and he plays all 162 games in a regular season, which of course he won't he'll earn:
162 x 5 (at bats)=810 at bats per year ($25.2 million/810_)= 31,100.11 per at bat. In reality, he'll probably bat about 600 times in a season, which brings his total per at bat earnings to ($25.2 million/600) $42,000 per at bat. Assuming each at bat goes to a full count (not counting foul balls), he'll earn ($42,000/6 pitches)=$7,000 per pitch.
I don't begrudge these guys the money they make. Hell, I made an attempt to play in the old ABA; you know, the leagure of the red and blue basketball and Dr. J. I signed a contract in 1967 to play for the Dallas Chaparrals. The only problem was that in order to make the contract good, I had to make the team. I played for about three weeks and got cut in the last cut-down before the season started. I went down to the Houston Mavericks and played on a 10-day contract and again got cut. After I got back home I got a call from Cincinnati who had an NBA team back then, the Royals. The assistant coach with whom I spoke told me that they'd give me a 10-day contract if I'd pay my own expenses. I told him that I thought I'd just get an honest job and go to work. I had forever and for always satisfied my curiosity about being able to play at that level. The fact was that I was just not good enough for professional basketball.
Had I been able to make that original contract good with the Chaparrals, it would have paid me the princely sum of $12,500 per year. What they didn't know was that I'd have paid them if they'd allowed me to kleep coming to the gym every day. I had never heard of steroids, but you can bet your ass that I'd have taken them if I thought they'd make me jump higher and put on 40 pounds of muscle to use against guys under the boards. back in those days, I didn't care whether the sun came up and would have been stupid enough to use something that could have possibly resulted in liver damage, heart disease or brain cancer.
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