McGwire admits to steroid use

[TruffleShuffle]

most usc football players get paid by usc boosters; does that mean you don't enjoy watching them play?

[DanzaSlap]

Pudge and I love getting in your young head. Gotta suck that most of your boyhood heroes were juicers.

 

If you have the attention span, you should read this article by Posnanski.

 

Iron Fisk

 

Good luck.

[Sammy Sofa]

Pudge and I love getting in your young head. Gotta suck that most of your boyhood heroes were juicers.

 

If you have the attention span, you should read this article by Posnanski.

 

Iron Fisk

 

Good luck.

 

Wow.

 

Fantastic article.

[rocket]

For instance, there was a player, a really good player, who had never hit more than 26 home runs in a season. He was a good hitter but he was just not a 30-home run guy. And he was also a catcher, which meant that it was likely his body had taken a terrible beating and had worn down.

 

But this is the point I want to make: When you talk about the three greatest power hitting catchers of all time — Mike Piazza, Johnny Bench and Yogi Berra, right? Well, there’s Josh Gibson, of course, but we don’t have his numbers. When the three power catchers (Piazza, Bench and Berra) were 37 years old, how many home runs do you think they averaged? The three greatest power-hitting catchers of all time averaged 11 home runs at age 37. How many do you think our guy hit? He hit 37!

 

Of course, our guy is Carlton Fisk.

 

haha, checkmate.

[SouthSideRyan]

Pudge and I love getting in your young head. Gotta suck that most of your boyhood heroes were juicers.

 

If you have the attention span, you should read this article by Posnanski.

 

Iron Fisk

 

Good luck.

 

JoePoz is an awesome writer.

[XZero771679666304]

Pudge and I love getting in your young head. Gotta suck that most of your boyhood heroes were juicers.

 

If you have the attention span, you should read this article by Posnanski.

 

Iron Fisk

 

Good luck.

 

Wow.

 

Fantastic article.

 

Yeah, about as square on the head as you can get. Echoes my thoughts exactly.

[DanzaSlap]

grassbass posted that article earlier in this thread. Just wanted to give him the credit, because I neglected to mention it in my initial post.

 

I agree that it hits the nail on the head.

[fromthestretch]

grassbass posted that article earlier in this thread. Just wanted to give him the credit, because I neglected to mention it in my initial post.

 

I agree that it hits the nail on the head.

 

:hello:

[artvandalay]

Would love love LOVE to hear Fisk's reaction to that article. That's the kind of thing that pisses me off about these ex-ballplayers that mouth off with their [expletive] righteous indignation about current or more recent players. They say this stuff, then they just leave it and refuse to say anything more when someone responds to them clearly debunking any points they're trying to make. If they want to make their opinion known in the media like this, they should be held accountable. I'd just love to hear him explain how his 37 home runs in his age 37 season isn't suspicious as hell, not to mention the whole getting all the numbers wrong in his initial argument.

[SouthSideRyan]

Fisk would tell that nerd to get out of his mother's basement with his stupid blog.

[imb]

no professional athlete is 'clean'

 

i imagine that every power hitter in the majors is soaking their body in 1000s of dollars of expensive supplements.

 

the point is, who cares

[Derwood]

Players today drink Gatorade.

 

Ty Cobb didn't have an electrolyte enriched beverage

 

cheaters....

[baseballfan50]

To me, cheating is cheating. Steroids were wrong. So were amphetamines, cocaine (keeps you awake and alert), as well as doctoring baseballs, corking bats, and all the other ways of cheating.

 

Fergie Jenkins recently lambasted McGwire for using steroids. Jenkins was once caught with cocaine, marijuana, and hashish, which is okay, using his reasoning.

 

I think many former players are throwing stones from inside their glass houses (excuse the cliche). Unless your past is spotless, don't be pointing out others' mistakes, in my opinion.