Monday, June 17, 2013
Stan “The Fan” Charles: After Biogenesis, Should MLB Players Still Have The Right To Arbitration?
(www.pressboxonline.com)
Dumb Dora/Donald doesn’t pretend to be enough of an ____________ .
Read More...If an already-signed player who hits an average of 20 home runs and 80 RBIs per year makes, say, $5 million per season, then surely a second player who is averaging 24 home runs and 86 RBIs deserves $6 million per year. It made perfect sense in those honest days, before the introduction of steroids and performance-enhancing drugs to the game.
But teams made deals based on the supposed integrity of the accumulated statistics ...
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1. Esoteric throws a 'hard slider' posted on January 30, 2013 at 01:46 PM # hit 0 | hit 0-- MWE
Maybe these guys didn't use? Or they used a masking agent that MLB hasn't caught on to -- but the reports about the notebook don't seem to mention such products.
Yeah, I am terrible at this. I make no apologies! The people must not be denied my literary clippings!
a) they caught Manny and Cabrera, both with ties to these guys.
b) double-check me but I don't think the ARod and Gio listings included winstrol. There was a cream and the insulin thing and the guy was cooking up various concoctions. I'm not certain this stuff was run-of-the-mill.
c) perhaps it took them a while but the TDF has much stricter testing protocols than MLB and they couldn't catch Armstrong.
To the extent I disagree with the article it's with the notion that MLB (i.e. the corporate entity, the owners) ever came close to suffering its share of indignities. McGwire, Palmeiro, Bonds and Clemens have suffered much more opprobrium than MLB ever did. Sure, Bud's congressional testimony was laughed at in real time but it didn't receive the coverage then nor had the staying power of McGwire's not talking about the past, Palmeiro wagging his finger and Sosa testifying in Spanish (a story which came into existence at a later point because his entire testimony was in English ... in real time the meme was to make fun of Sosa's broken English).
MLB won the PR war and the public blames the players entirely and rarely/never seems to consider the owners' role. An article like this is similar sort of PR -- hey, MLB is doing all it can, it's those dirty players you need to be mad at. Where's the article noting that the MLBPA has done plenty and maybe it's time to give them a break too?
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