Saturday, June 08, 2013
ESPN:OTL:Baseball accused of ‘bullying’
(espn.go.com)
posted 2 weeks ago by Meatwads stronger now, ready for the house to biogenesis, centaur, drugs, lawsuits, mlb, selig, steroids
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“I understand that they’re saying they can’t fight a fair fight with the people they are saying violated the contract [the players who are represented by the players’ association],” Beguiristain said. “They have to be bullies and go bully the little people. Every named defendant has been bullied by Major League Baseball. Investigators showing up at their houses, what is wrong with these people? Go to the guy’s job. Why are you coming and banging on the guy’s door? Who do they think they are?”
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1. J.R. Wolf posted on November 26, 2012 at 11:41 PM # hit 0 | hit 0I say also permaban anybody who ever played with the player who fails the test.
(and anyone who knows Lance Armstrong personally)
Wait, post #1 wasn't humor? It really is hard to "hear" the tone of some posts I guess.
I'll try to fit finding a solution into my busy schedule of not giving a #### about PEDS.
Why don't the Very Serious People ever bother the NFL about this crap? They use more drugs in a week than MLB does in a year.
Because the vast majority of NFL players are pretty much by definition livestock, or at least regarded as such?
Yes, but when I buy cheese the package has a little note saying that the cattle weren't given any growth hormones. You don't get that note on offensive linemen.
I support a much wider drug testing program in baseball. The ownership, the GMs, umpires, the commissioner, let's make sure we're sending an unequivocal message to the kids.
Apparently, no one feels like lying about offensive linemen.
I'm all for it. I will support a measure to test members of BBWAA for drug testing, if they pop positive for anything, they lose the right to vote/write for 1 year, second offense 5 years, third offense permanent ban.
As to whether any tests are ever given after an employee is on board (absent supposed cause, I guess, like DWIs or whatever), I have no idea. Wasn't at the paper here long enough to gain any sense of that.
Many places require a test before getting hired. Not the same thing as MLB which has ongoing testing (unless of course your paper required ongoing testing, in which case, never mind).
Maybe we can send Sammy Sosa to collect Rick Reilly's sample.
Agreed. We need people to take this seriously.
Anybody who jokes about PEDs should be permabanned from attending baseball games.
I mean, I'm pretty sure that the test wasn't to make sure that I _did_ do drugs, as you want a certain % of your software developers to be that exploratory adventurous type.
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