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I am disgusted and embarrassed.
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Think Lebron was inspired by Kobe's performance?
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This Northwestern vs. Wisconsin game is one of the best college basketball games I've seen this season.
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Wake Forest is shooting out of their minds and Duke is ice cold ... no way that continues in the 2nd half. Duke by 8.
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So Z is worth 1.6 wins with his bat, but can anybody tell me a game last year that the Cubs would have lost if not for Z's bat (but instead one of an average hitting pitcher)?
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Cubs sue Under Armour over sponsership
chuckywang replied to cubswin2009's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Well, Under Armour was started by a Maryland grad .... freaking Terps. -
Alfonso Soriano OK with not being leading man
chuckywang replied to cubswin2009's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Good let's give Theriot more ABs. -
Yankees Sign Pettite
chuckywang replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Didn't he turn out a 10 mil contract earlier? 4.5 mil is a hard pill to swallow. How does the Yankees rotation look now? Sabathia, Wang, Burnett, Pettite, and Hughes? -
The difference is that Spring Training is mandatory for players, and it's actually part of MLB and its teams, it's important they get ready for the season. The WBC is completely voluntary and it is pretty much an exhibition. Players are also on strict training programs and starting to do stuff early can be detrimental to getting prepared for the season. A lot of the pitchers that were in the WBC last time had hard times staying healthy/effective throughout the season following it. Players get paid to play for their MLB teams and take part in events/games with their team, not to play in some meaningless exhibition. It would be different if players were making only thousands of dollars to play MLB, but when players are making $10+ million a year there is no need for them to go out and risk injury playing in an event that has no meaning, when they are being paid by a organization to play for their team. I think fan interest dictates whether an event has meaning or not. And the WBC has a lot of fan interest, way more than expected back in 2006.
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Somebody tell Hendry that the Cards pixie dust only works when the player is wearing a Cardinals jersey.
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Does anybody have any links to Bradley's other radio and TV interviews from today?
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+1 I hate the fact that I have to worry about Cubs' players getting injured before the season even starts. In soccer, international competition is more prestigious than club competition. Why is baseball so different?
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Well the fact that they said it was only a 'contaminant' level of the andro that they found in his blood stream sure helps his believability. At least to me. In Romero's case, he brought the bottle he used to his arbitration hearing. I guess you can also look at credit card records in both cases, if that is indeed how they paid for the supplement. How does bringing the bottle he used prove that's all he used? If he only had a contaminant level of andro in his blood, and he can prove that he bought a supplement that was contaminated by andro, it's a pretty safe bet that's all he used.
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Vizcaino's stats the last 3 years do not impress me at all.
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Well the fact that they said it was only a 'contaminant' level of the andro that they found in his blood stream sure helps his believability. At least to me. In Romero's case, he brought the bottle he used to his arbitration hearing. I guess you can also look at credit card records in both cases, if that is indeed how they paid for the supplement.
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If rodent hair could cause you to lose your job, you should eat something besides popcorn. That's not really an analogous situation with Romero though. What if you were had no idea popcorn could contain rodent hairs, nothing on the popcorn label says anything about rodent hairs, and even when you asked a professional, that professional tells you it doesn't contain rodent hairs? Would you be confident eating popcorn?
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It was added to the banned list after McGwire was found with it. Yeah, it wasn't illegal PED use, but he was using PEDs that are no longer allowed which contributed to his 580+ HRs. He's not guilty of illegally using them from the info we know, but his numbers can be called into question based on what he's admitted to using. ex post facto? I think what UMFan83 is saying that since McGwire admitted to using andro, it's not hard to assume he also used PEDs that were illegal at the time. That's a slippery slope argument, if you ask me, but it's the common belief.
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Disagree. It's the players responsibility to make sure what he's taking is legit. But if the supplement did not list an illegal substance and he did his due diligence prior to taking it, how is he supposed to know about it? How do we know he did his due diligence? How do we know he didn't take a supplement with andro so he could use it as an excuse to actually take andro? Players don't have to shop at GNC. It's an unregulated business and the labelling is completely unreliable. Every year we hear about guys being shocked about what was in there supplement. Jim Freaking Miller pulled that crap back in 1999. The bottom line is the players are responsible for what they put in their body. It's not hard to avoid the junk. Peter Gammons wrote an excellent article on the Romero situation (which for the most part applies to Mitre as well). http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3812334 I found this snippet particularly relevant: Also, Gammons wrote that the supplement bottle brought to the hearing by MLB contained a warning label about potentially containing illegal PEDs. Romero brought the bottle that he used, which did not contain that warning label.
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Disagree. It's the players responsibility to make sure what he's taking is legit. But if the supplement did not list an illegal substance and he did his due diligence prior to taking it, how is he supposed to know about it? Which is why the manic state that surrounds "performance enhancing drugs" in sports is absolutely ridiculous and overblown. I think you are eventually going to see more lawsuits like the one recently involving the 5 NFL players over this issue and could evolve into suits against the manufacturers(I won't get into the proof problems that they would have to deal with). All of which is sad because if this issue was approached with a level-headedness across the board a resolution could be reached to avoid some of the nonsense. 50 games for Mitre and Romero just because they took something from GNC which the league knows should not have had the substance contained in it but in fact did. Really? 'Cause that makes sense. Wow, I could not agree with you more. It does seem sometimes like we live in 1600s Salem when it comes to PEDs. Maybe soon athletes will bring their trainers to restaurants with them just to make sure the cook doesn't taint their food with drugs.
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Jacque Jones wasn't bad that season. .285/.334/.499 108 OPS+
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I sure hope Jim Hendry didn't sign up for a Sportsline account anytime recently.
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I have Comcast (Evanston, IL) but channel 410 is blocked for me. What the hell?
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not that i'm aware of...i do not have the sports package but do have the mlb network....channel 279 here, i believe. Do you have Comcast?
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Is the MLB Network part of the Sports Package on Comcast? I just turned to channel 410 and it is blocked for me.
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Ron Rivera just got pwned by Peyton Manning .... again.