Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Uni Watch: Lukas: Hooked up
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posted on January 15, 2013 at 05:51 PM by Greg Franklin to history, memorabilia, orioles, special topics, uniforms
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These pics of the greatest Mazzone in Oriole history should hook you.
Read More...Reader Bruce Menard recently clued me in regarding a chapter from fairly recent MLB history that I hadn’t been aware of. It involves a guy named Jay Mazzone, who worked as a batboy for the Orioles in the late 1960s. The unusual thing about Mazzone is that he’d lost his hands when he was two years old after his snow suit caught on fire, so he used metal hooks in lieu of fingers. This certainly made him an unusual sight on ...
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1. Jose Can Still Seabiscuit posted on June 19, 2012 at 08:27 AM # hit 0 | hit 0Proving that both sides can be a little over the top I guess.
I'm on the "everyone was doing it so I don't care" team on steroids so I don't really care but man this is a bit thick. It's not a great day for the US or for baseball, it's a great day for Roger Clemens. He wasn't found not guilty of doing steroids, he was found not guilty of lying to Congress.
You can't prove a dounble negative, I guess.
That's a rather interesting way to frame the result, given that Selig is neither a prosecutor with the power to indict, nor a member of Congress with the power to subpoena.
And the New York Daily News I-Team...
No, more like the jury didn't think the prosecution made a strong enough case so that it was reasonable to think he used and then lied about it.
I was on a jury and some of us believed that the defendant---who admitted she'd been drinking, but that she only had one---was drunk, which would have had consequences in this case had it been true. But we agreed that we couldn't make that leap, even though circumstances (holiday party, etc.) certainly suggested that it might have been the case.
best chuckle i've had yet from all this.
where at least I'm PED freeeeee!
U.S. law 1, Congress 0?
No, in essence the jury didn't believe *beyond a reasonable doubt* that he used and then lied about it. Or to put it another way, that didn't think it was *unreasonable* to think otherwise.
Anyway, I'm not sure why the best pitcher of all time being convicted of perjury would be seen as a victory for the sport's commissioner.
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