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1. Halofan Posted: December 17, 2007 at 07:48 PM (#2648053)In the piece, the author claims that Starr was interviewed four times by the Mitchellin Men. A quick "find" on the pdf here at BTF shows no mention of Starr.
Two questions:
1. Was Starr's stuff used/mentioned etc. even if his name was not?
2. Why was Starr's name not used in the report? Why was he not quoted? He seems to have no problem talking for the record. this article about former Mlb trainer Larry Starr was posted here.
Well, yes, but I am trying to be fair about it and I was asking in the way you ask when you think you know the answer. Starr's omission from the report after four interviews needs to be noted, IMO.
PUKE
If that was the real motivation, wouldn't it be risky so as to invoke poorer ticket sales and bad press.
and the brave commissioner Who Care Enuf to clean things up
Nixon would have been a step up. We got stuck with a Dubya Bush.
Only if you believe that Sabean wasn't just doing his job, and that McGowan really had no idea his star player was juicing.
I didn't mean to suggest that only Sabean was to blame or that McGowan was oblivious. I'm merely commenting on the narrative in which Sabean's employees come to him with a problem, he says solve it, they ask "will you back me up when I catch hell?" and he says "nah."
Sabean just came off like a total spineless putz of a bad manager in the report.
and anyone who believes otherwise demonstrates a level of naivete that would glaze over the eyes of Pollyanna
Nixon would have been a step up. We got stuck with a Dubya Bush.
I'd argue that on steroids Selig began as either James Buchanan or Warren Harding, depending on how much you think he knew, and has since turned into either Calvin Coolidge or Andrew Johnson, depending on what you think of his motives.
As was pointed out to me when I was complaining about the Nats moving opening day to opening night, thus depriving my son the chance to go... sports cater to TV - they could care less if people show up at the gate.
Nixon would have been a step up. We got stuck with a Dubya Bush.
Of all the things I blame Bud for - No. 1 on the list is pushing Bush the Lesser into politics.
was he not in there?
wow, I never checked, but that is shocking to me .. wow
Bolshevik Bud and Dullard Dubya share similar motives - massive windfalls of unearned cash for himself and his well-kept cronies. I'm no presidential historian, of course, but I know kindreds spirits when I see them.
I searched "Larry Starr" and "Starr" on the pdf, and nothing came up. If you do that with other names--"Pettitte", "Selig"--whatever, it takes you to the name. Mitchell's ass should be on the fire for it if in fact Starr was interviewed four times, pointed the finger at management, as JMN said, and was left out of the report.
agreed ..
that and the fact he never even called Jose Canseco once.
this report was a sham!
Check the Ricky Bones section. I think that is Larry Starr (aka Florida Marlins Trainer)
Yeah, Starr was FLA trainer from 1993 to 2002. So, Starr is mentioned--but not by name--as perhaps being not in "compliance" with a policy, a problem which, according to the report is then addressed by Dombrowski. But none of the articles in which Starr is quoted as pointing the finger at MLB management types are mentioned.
the only mention of a Florida trainer there was somebody reporting it to management. That could have been anybody.
Which may be true, of course, but it seems, uhh, fishy.
Most of the stuff is Lo Duca, but the only mention of Florida trainer(s) is Bones. No names are mentioned, other than a clubhouse attendant that found Marijuana.
"Going to China" is the World Baseball Classic.
Being the first President to refer to "The War on Drugs" is roughly equivalent to the whole thing with steroids (sure, he said it, but did Nixon stop drugs, OF COURSE NOT! Has Selig stopped steroids, HELL NO!).
Watergate is the whole "AHHH, MLB is DOOOOMED if we don't contract 2 teams, now excuse me while I count my money" thing, only, y'know, without the leaving office part.
So we're still looking for the Selig equivalent of talking to the Apollo 11 astronauts....
I have no idea what the equivalent to the meeting with Elvis is.
I dunno... Retiring Jackie Robinson's number in perpetuity?
Don't see it. Ultimately that pushed Nixon out of office. Selig's still secure.
Brilliant!
I have no idea what the equivalent to the meeting with Elvis is.
Must be some purely symbolic act that was tangential to his main career.
Something like...being one of the advisors to the creation of the Israeli Baseball League.
Unless that was more analogous to this other meeting Nixon had.
Considering only Frank Thomas, and Player x were man enough to speak to Mitchell, I'm not holding my breath...
Selig best be careful at the movies, lest he gets sic semper'd in his tyrannus
Unless that was more analogous to this other meeting Nixon had
Are you saying that because Sammy was Jewish? Did Nixon know that, d'ya think?
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