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But, it might have been about him getting into better shape and then playing better.
Either way, WHOA.
From story:
The Giants have 45 games remaining this season. Cabrera's suspension will carry over into the playoffs if the Giants advance to the postseason. If not, Cabrera will be suspended for the first five games of the 2013 season.
Well it was testosterone. And Melky actually needed to get smaller, not bigger. So I guess they could have worked, but I'm not exactly seeing how. More energy for the stairmaster?
Not much with Delmon Young still being in it.
http://www.csnbayarea.com/baseball-san-francisco-giants/giants-talk/A-public-apology-to-Melky-Cabrera?blockID=747609
"We’re bound to seek the truth, to be as fair and accurate as possible and to serve the interests of readers.
I thought I was doing that Friday when I chose to ask Melky Cabrera about rumors that I had heard from several different readers who had contacted me via email and my Twitter account over the past few days. I had no idea where these rumors started, but the questions were starting to mushroom about whether Cabrera flunked a drug test and would face a 50-game suspension.
Let’s be clear: There is no evidence that there is any shred of truth to these rumors. Cabrera knew nothing about it....
In retrospect, I made the wrong decision to address these rumors on my Twitter account and disseminate it to my 30,000-plus followers.
So I feel it’s important that I issue a public apology to Melky Cabrera for giving greater voice to a rumor that, to the best of my knowledge and on his word, has absolutely no basis in fact."
...........
UPDATE:
2-part Baggarly tweet just now:
Andrew Baggarly ?@CSNBaggs
"I stand by the apology column I wrote last month. Didn't have story nailed down, shouldn't have put it out there. ... (cont.)
... Now, if Melky Cabrera wants to apologize to me for lying when I asked him about it, that's another matter."
That's what scares me. Maybe they do.
That's not what your mo....uhm...Mrs. Cabrera said.
Extremely low body fat is one of the big signs of steroid abuse. That's why so many bodybuilders have crazy muscle definition and terrible, paper-like skin.
I was trying to formulate a joke about milk and giving cows growth hormones, but it always came out really clumsy.
Too late. It already counted.
Ooh, Gregor Blanco in left.
Average annual WAR for Melky Cabrera prior to 2011 (when he became "fit and useful Melky.") - 0.7
Total career WAR for Melky Cabrera prior to 2011: 4.0
Total WAR, season to date, 2012: 4.8
The Giants have already gotten more out of the Melky than he gave his entire career prior to hitting the sauce.
No. See our conversation here.
I'm talking about Melky not the Giants. The Giants can't do anything in this situation other than to suggest things to Melky. It seems like Melky got popped 2 to 3 weeks ago and instead of taking the hit he dragged his heals and appealed it. His apology today shows that the failed drug test was not a mistake and he knew he was taking banned drugs. Meanwhile between the time he got popped and the time he got suspended about 15 games or so have gone by. If he had just taken the ban he'd probably have about 10 games left in the season when he came back and all of the playoffs. For Melky, being a FA and all after the season, the drug suspension is going to hurt but getting back before the season is over and getting to play in the playoffs might just mitigate the damages to a degree.
He was probably hoping for a miracle in the interim, or some extra evidence that he could attack Ryan Braun style.
Seems like it. And the fact that he's already owned-up to it suggests the case against him must be iron-clad.
Headline should have read "Giants Leftfielder Fails PED Test."
Having passed through waivers, Alfonso Soriano is available.
"I stand by the apology column I wrote last month. Didn't have story nailed down, shouldn't have put it out there. ... (cont.)
... Now, if Melky Cabrera wants to apologize to me for lying when I asked him about it, that's another matter."
actually, very clever and pretty funny, too.
Meh. Baggarly's being a bit of an ass again in my opinion. Baggarly's a reporter, what does he expect? Melky had 3 options:
1. "No comment." Might as well say yes.
2. Say "yes, but I'm appealing it." Kinda makes confidentiality and the appeals process pointless.
3. "No."
McCoy's got a reasonable point -- although Melky's "substance I should not have used" is massively broad.
I am concerned if this keeps getting leaked especially to the point fans on twitter find out about it before it's official.
As is Carl Crawford. We'll even trade him for Melky.
It shrinks them, I believe.
No it isn't. The (extremely) low bodyfat, the paper-like skin comes from dieting. You don't need AAS for that thin skin and definition. What the AAS does, is help to maintain the muscle mass (it is speculated that one way that AAS "works", is that it alters so called "nutrient partitioning", more of the food you eat is stored as muscle, used to maintain muscle, it increases protein sysnthesis). Hence pro bodybuilders on AAS will have the paper like skin, the definition, AND at the same time, still have huge (and round) muscles. That paper like skin you see on pro bodybuilders, is only prevalent around contest / photo shoot time, when they are severely dieted down, and severely dehydrated.
Or put another way, some powerlifters also use AAS. They definitely do not have the paper thin skin, and the muscle definition of pro bodybuilders. Because they're not dieting, and certainly are not restricting water consumption.
Matt Lawton
Why are all excuses deemed BS? Have we reached the stage of testing where false positives don't happen?
Melky's suspension probably explains why the Giants were trying to trade for Alfonso before the deadline.
Give me one example where a player had an explanation and it wasn't shruggeddededed off as BS.
Wait, what? How can your average be negative and your total be positive?
That's not a negative sign.
But again, that's not what shoe was saying. He simply asked if this was the first time anyone had gotten nailed and didn't offer an explanation/excuse. He didn't say each and every explanation/excuse was BS.
You're right. I misread it.
Mini-stroke.
Yesterday I was at a bar and a guy was talking to a crowd of people and he emitted dolphin sounds while trying to talk.
They're shrugged off because the vast majority are BS, unless if you believe that multi-millionaire baseball players whose multi-millions depend on their ability to continue playing baseball and who are drug tested up the whazoo and know they are going to be pilloried personally up the same whazoo if they test positive do indeed just randomly take pills and supplements their friend or doctor or the guy in the gym gives them without bothering to check what's inside, which seems to be the most popular excuse by leaps and bounds. Or to take the lesser-used excuse of false positives that baseball specifically has a far greater incidence of false positives than other sports where false positives seem to be extremely rare, even though all the sports are pretty much taking the same tests for the same things (cycling a special case because of blood boosters, though it seems we have had exactly zero false positives in that sport, everyone who's tested positive has admitted it eventually, so that doesn't really help the argument). False positives in most systems are extremely rare, and significantly more so than the much more common false negative, for the simple truth that it's easier to miss something that is there rather than find something that isn't.
Either way any of those beliefs are entirely different unfounded beliefs than the unfounded belief of assuming that the great majority of these excuses are BS. But they're unfounded belief nonetheless, and in the end very likely far less accurate for all the obvious reasons.
Maybe steroids should be legal in baseball after all. But it seems to me the pro-steroids (not a perfect term) side often goes too far - not only should steroids be legal, but they don't actually help at all, and when somebody is caught we don't believe they did them anyway. The lady doth protest too much.
Would the Cubs take Hunter Pence for Alfonso Soriano?
And while he's 48 and hasn't played MLB since the Bush administration, all he has to do is be better than Aubrey Huff. Even money that Willie Mays could outplay Huff.
Well, this admission should open to the door to the Hall of Fame for him.
Hard to nail down exactly what it is though - it could be synthetic testosterone, or it could be increased levels of his own testosterone brought about by injecting another substance (e.g., HCG).
He is owning up to it, but the stuff these guys like to say about "making a mistake" is of course bullshite rationalization.
Missing your exit ramp on the highway is a mistake. Leaving the house with two different colored socks on is a mistake. Taking steroids and other illegal substances is something these guys are knowingly and intentionally doing in order to try to game the system and get an unfair advantage. They're not "making a mistake", they're proactively cheating, they know exactly what they're doing, and they know full well they shouldn't be doing it.
It doesn't even matter if he means because he got caught or because he feels he did something wrong in retrospect - the decision was STILL a mistake.
Yes, but say he tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone.
I understand exactly why people say this. "I made a mistake" is the classic standard New Age way that people rationalize getting caught doing something they knew they shouldn't have been doing. It sounds good, and it's a hell of a lot easier to publicly say than things like "I don't give a f*ck about the rules, I'm a liar, I'm a cheater, I'll do anything I want in order to get ahead in life", that sort of thing.
I go by thickness.
Fair enough.
That's what she said.
I can kind of see Joey's point (God help me), but I think the definition of "mistake" technically covers a decision that in hindsight one believes was wrong. So, Lassus wins.
It reminds me of this scene from The Last Boy Scout, with Bruce Willis playing the role of Joe and Bruce McGill as Mike:
Well, there are some indications that anabolic steroids can improve vision a bit. Also, increased bat speed can allow a batter to wait a little longer before swinging, which can help him avoid being fooled on breaking pitches out of the strike zone.
The increased bat speed won't just automagically come as a result of increased testosterone. Increased bat speed is very much a specific (type of) strength, and needs to be specifically trained for. The ability to develope the highest maximal force in the most beneficial condition and the ability to develope maximal force in a specific condition are different abilities. The lighter the external resistance (ie swinging a baseball bat) and the less the time you have, the greater the difference between the ability to develope the highest maximal force in the most beneficial condition and the ability to develope maximal force in that specific condition.
Why? Sanchez was suspended over a months ago for shittiness.
Huh? Why not? Sanchez = -1.2 WAR for the Royals, Cabrera = 4.7 WAR for the Giants. Obv WAR is not the end all but that is a huge gap. It's not like the Giants lose the wins Cabrera helped them with.
edit: half liter of cola to RoyalsRetro
The gap is already quite large enough to call that a complete win for the Giants.
Yes, because drunk bleacher fans who heckle tend to be the introspective type.
interestingly braun stated the worst razzing was san fran
for what it is worth
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