Re: Sosa tested positive in 2003 per NY Times

[Keener98]

And heres the 1st bit of actualy evidence against Sammy. Cant say Im surprised at all.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/sports/baseball/17doping.html?ref=sports

[Butterscup1679666578]

[expletive].

[kjfoster 1553]

From the Sosa Retiring thread:

 

So I'm not 100% sure of the timing of everything, but if I was betting I would say Sammy COULD be one of the 103 or so people that are on the list ARod was on.

 

Is this 2003 test and the "anonymous" tests the same thing?

[Butterscup1679666578]

Yes.

[Keener98]

From the Sosa Retiring thread:

 

So I'm not 100% sure of the timing of everything, but if I was betting I would say Sammy COULD be one of the 103 or so people that are on the list ARod was on.

 

Is this 2003 test and the "anonymous" tests the same thing?

 

Yes

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Took them long enough.

[Flames24Rulz]

Well this sucks but if anyone's surprised about this, they were living in a fantasy world.

[NonProfitCow]

Well this sucks but if anyone's surprised about this, they were living in a fantasy world.

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[UMFan83]

Screw you Sammy, but obviously not surprised

[Butterscup1679666578]

I'm wondering if he was tipped off about this beforehand. It would explain why his comments when he announced he was retiring were so weird.

[Keener98]

I'm wondering if he was tipped off about this beforehand. It would explain why his comments when he announced he was retiring were so weird.

 

I doubt it because if he was tipped off about this coming out, I have a hard time believing hed make the comments about laying back and waiting for his call to the Hall of Fame. Sammy cant be that stupid can he?

[kjfoster 1553]

I'm wondering if he was tipped off about this beforehand. It would explain why his comments when he announced he was retiring were so weird.

 

I doubt it because if he was tipped off about this coming out, I have a hard time believing hed make the comments about laying back and waiting for his call to the Hall of Fame. Sammy cant be that stupid can he?

 

He pretended to not speak English, when we all know he is easily understood in English.

 

Yes, he could be that stupid

[Mark Priors Calves]

oops.

[Butterscup1679666578]

I'm wondering if he was tipped off about this beforehand. It would explain why his comments when he announced he was retiring were so weird.

 

I doubt it because if he was tipped off about this coming out, I have a hard time believing hed make the comments about laying back and waiting for his call to the Hall of Fame. Sammy cant be that stupid can he?

 

I dunno, I was more referring to this quote:

 

"If anything ugly comes up in the future, we will confront it immediately."

 

IIRC, he had others that were kind of weird about steroids as well.

[OleMissCub]

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/027669_27.jpg

 

...except not

[SouthSideRyan]

He pretended to not speak English, when we all know he is easily understood in English.

 

He is?

[kjfoster 1553]

He pretended to not speak English, when we all know he is easily understood in English.

 

He is?

 

Certainly spoke it well enough to do hundreds of interviews about hitting HRs with Big Mac in 1998. I have the "Home Run Chase" VHS at home if you want me to send it to you.

[champaignchris]

Not particularly surprising. Not even really disappointing. Kind of just inevitable, really. Like when your 99 year old great aunt you haven't seen in 10 years dies. You're kind of vaguely sad, but aren't entirely sure who the flowers should be sent to.

[David]

Meh

[David]

He pretended to not speak English, when we all know he is easily understood in English.

 

He is?

 

Certainly spoke it well enough to do hundreds of interviews about hitting HRs with Big Mac in 1998. I have the "Home Run Chase" VHS at home if you want me to send it to you.

 

 

Big difference between some relatively inconsequential interviews with sports media and speaking in front of government officials in the situation he was in.

 

I speak Spanish very fluently, far better than Sammy speaks English, and even I'd feel extremely uncomfortable put into a similar situation in a Spanish speaking country.

[kjfoster 1553]

So is this thread going to get as heated as the Sosa Retiring thread, seeing that now there is evidence?

[Andy]

Well, so much for the whole 'no evidence' thing. Just when that was finally starting to gain a little bit of steam too.

[champaignchris]

So, who now tops the list of "Most likely to have been on roids, but we don't have any actual proof yet?"

 

Bagwell? Piazza?

[Tyrant]

Stunning.

[David]

So is this thread going to get as heated as the Sosa Retiring thread, seeing that now there is evidence?

 

 

I doubt many were arguing that they'd be surprised if it was true. People were arguing that there was no actual evidence against him, which there wasn't.