Are you freaking kidding me?!!?!?!?!? A-Rod update

[JayC]

start hyping up how MLB has the toughest steroid policy of the professional sports in America

Does it? I just read a quote today from Andy Roddick (that other "A-Rod") saying that tennis has the toughest steroid testing policy in pro sports.

I don't know, because I know nothing about tennis' policies. But what struck me about that was that steroids would be very unlikely to be beneficial to a tennis player (do you really want to bulk up?)... so it's probably pretty easy for them to implement a tough policy against something that nobody would be likely to use anyway.

[HoustonGM]

I should've clarified..."of the major professional sports in America."

[Wassit3]

LOL, anybody believing Hank Aaron never took amphetimines when pretty much every other ball player did might as well believe in the tooth fairy too. So, let's see, that rules out Aaron, Mays, Robinson, and Mantle never seemed to see a drug he didn't like......

And Ruth? Well, if supporting terrorism today is wrong, how about supporting organized crime in the 20's???? Ruth was it's biggest customer!! Ok, so he's out.

Hmmm, by the time we're done, OK it's official.

The MLB Home Run King is Lou Gehrig! ! !

We all know no one can touch him, not after that speech at Yankee stadium and having a disease named after him (ALS). Congrats Lou ! ! !

are you sure old Lou wasn't a coffee drinker? if he was then we have to rule him out too, Home Run Baker is he new king!

[5DiMaggio]

I don't understand suspending ARod even after other players came out and said they did roids(Pettit with HGH, didn't get suspended) This is all stupid <_<

[oriole^]

Yeah, but Jason Grimsley was. This stuff about "oh, they're only going after A-Rod 'cause he's a starrrrr!" is nonsense, as is all the Home Run Baker stuff.

That said...I don't know what the Commish, particularly Selig, who has never done anything for the benefit of the game, could do. The records are already on the books, and everyone is very careful to admit everything in the past tense, so the taint (oh, that word again) is already there.

A suspension of A-Rod for "conduct detrimental to the game" could be warranted, but I'd rather it be applied to Selig.

[JayC]

Yeah, but Jason Grimsley was.

Grimsley was suspended after the feds tracked a delivery of HGH to his house in April 2006. Completely different situation than a positive result to a survey test in 2003 before there were sanctions in place for the violation.

[HoustonGM]

This stuff about "oh, they're only going after A-Rod 'cause he's a starrrrr!" is nonsense

I don't think so. Where are the Congressmen calling for Manny Alexander, Chris Donnels, Shane Monahan, and Fernando Vina to testify in front of Congress? Where's the public outrage over Jose Guillen, Rick Ankiel, Jay Gibbons, Brendan Donnelly, Ryan Franklin, Jerry Hairston Jr., Paul Lo Duca, Wally Joyner, and Troy Glaus, to name some non-no-names? Is anybody calling for the Cardinals to release Glaus or Ankiel, or the Royals to relase Guillen? Where are the people clamoring to take away Eric Gagne's consecutive saves record?

A suspension of A-Rod for "conduct detrimental to the game" could be warranted, but I'd rather it be applied to Selig.

I agree with that!

[HoustonGM]

Craig Counsell was the best player of his era!

[HoustonGM]

Ha. BTF comment:

Apparently, Selig DOES have the power to go back in time and make this right.

Here's Selig talking about baseball's steroid timeline: “I never even heard about it. I ran a team and nobody was closer to their players and I never heard any comment from them. It wasn’t until 1998 or ’99 that I heard the discussion.”

He also told Congress that he was an early opponent of steroids, and issued a stern memo banning their use in 1997.

In other words, Bud Selig led the fight against something he'd never heard of.