Posts Tagged ‘ Steroids ’
David Ortiz held his long-awaited press conference, discussing his reported appearance on the 2003 positive test list. Ortiz denied involvement with steroids, blaming a tainted supplement. “I definitely was a little bit careless back in those days when I was buying supplements and vitamins over the counter — legal supplements, legal vitamins over the counter [ READ MORE ]
Shockingly, since they did so much thorough, proactive reporting on performance enhancing drugs, the BBWAA may have been duped by a doper. Jose Canesco told ESPN’s Pedro Gomez that baseball had a Hall of Famer who used performance enhancing drugs. Continued at The Big Lead[ READ MORE ]
Why Does the Media’s Steroid Reluctance Extend to A-Rod? Through 43 games, Alex Rodriguez’ 2009 season has been underwhelming. He’s hitting .223 and slugging .466, far lower than his career .304 and .576 numbers respectively. He has hit 10 home runs in 148 AB, though eight (in 73 AB) have come in the homer haven [ READ MORE ]
The blog Midwest Sports Fans received criticism for a post about Raul Ibanez. The post addresses Ibanez’ uncharacteristically hot season. It uses an array of sophisticated statistical analyses to disprove steroids were the cause. It concludes, soberly, that any such statistical leap by a player past his physical prime would be under suspicion. He makes [ READ MORE ]
My Take On Manny Ramirez. I will be writing a semi-regular column for Mark Travis’ excellent website “But The Game Is On.” This entry is about why, for me, the Manny Ramirez steroid revelations do not taint the 2004 World Series[ READ MORE ]
Roger Clemens’ PR firm trotted him out on ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning yesterday. The ploy was not ingenious. It reignited public scrutiny and offered a previously unknown critical work free publicity, without any perceivable benefit. His reappearance also reignited the “debate” about whether Roger Clemens is telling the truth. Here is the [ READ MORE ]
The Big Lead » Blog Archive » What We Know About Manny Ramirez[ READ MORE ]
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Why Do Baseball GMs Get a Pass on Steroids: There is substantial evidence that baseball GMs knew much more than they let on about steroids. While we are exploring every abscess and shrunken testicle on the players’ end, why does this not warrant more attention[ READ MORE ]
Bud Selig Is Not a Humanist: Did Baseball really do “more than anyone ever dreamed possible” to combat the Steroid Era[ READ MORE ]
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