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MLB Post All Star break suspensions?
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Bud Selig can't be gone fast enough. He has a shiny wardrobe he wants to debut on July 18th and wants nothing to detract from his fashion show. Sadly, the Emperor has a bad case of the runs and, secretly, has soiled the outfit. Selig wants to wait until after the All-Star break to avoid the suspensions dominating the discussion and taking away from the game and from his legacy. So now, the PED scandal is ALL people are going to talk about.
I don't know the full list of implicated players but what if one or more are All-Stars? How does that impact the game, its significance in baseball history and in the home field advantage in the World Series this year. This game matters... Unless it is tainted by PEDs and baseball turns a blind eye to it. Baseball should lance the boil and move on. Announcing the suspensions today would give the talking heads time to get the initial wave of commentary out of the system and give baseball a chance to focus on the game rather than the scandal. Announcing the suspension today would give fans reason to believe that baseball is more concerned about the purity of the game rather than the purity of the revenue stream. Clinging to the mirage of purity, until after the All-Star game, just gives us all the opportunity and desire to shout out "The Emperor is naked as a jay-bird!" |
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There's other names floating around, but here's some...
Alex Rodriguez (3B Yankees) Ryan Braun (OF Brewers) Melky Cabrera (OF Blue Jays) Nelson Cruz (OF Rangers) Jhonny Peralta (SS Tigers) Everth Cabrera (SS Padres) Francisco Cervelli (C Yankees) Jesus Montero (C-DH Mariners) Fernando Martinez (OF Astros) Fautino De Los Santos (RHP free agent) Jordan Norberto (LHP free agent) Cesar Puello (OF Mets) Bartolo Colon (RHP A's)
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Find us on for updates, including site issues. Also now on Reddit, not that I'm sure what we're doing there yet. Don't piss off old people- the older we get, the less life in prison is a deterrent. I'm pretty confident my last words will be 'well crap, that didn't work'. Of all the things I've lost over the years, I think I miss my metabolism most of all. Nachos are just tacos that don't have their s_it together. I'm not adding this year to my age because I really didn't use it. Ever notice that extra fries and exercise sound a lot alike? |
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I just read that 4 All-Stars are on the list of players linked to Biogenisis:
Bartolo Colon Jhonny Peralta Nelson Cruz Everth Cabrera If these guys play and THEN get suspended the uproar could be and should be huge. |
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Fat Toad...er Colon isn't likely to play...but nothing to do with this, he's simply scheduled to pitch the last day before the break
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Find us on for updates, including site issues. Also now on Reddit, not that I'm sure what we're doing there yet. Don't piss off old people- the older we get, the less life in prison is a deterrent. I'm pretty confident my last words will be 'well crap, that didn't work'. Of all the things I've lost over the years, I think I miss my metabolism most of all. Nachos are just tacos that don't have their s_it together. I'm not adding this year to my age because I really didn't use it. Ever notice that extra fries and exercise sound a lot alike? |
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MLB is now, imo, the same as the Tour de France...
Filled with cheaters and until they can unequivocally prove that they can successful catch and keep cheaters from actively participating in their sport, my opinion of either will not change. It's a disgrace, again imo, that these cheaters can get caught and still "beat the system" like Braun did the first time. It just proves that neither the MLBPA and the owners really want to clean up the game. |
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it would take a TON to make me believe the percentage of players in baseball (or any other major US team sport for that matter) cheating is remotely close to what it apparently grew to in cycling...........but then I never believed the Red Sox were going to win a pennant again either..until they did
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Find us on for updates, including site issues. Also now on Reddit, not that I'm sure what we're doing there yet. Don't piss off old people- the older we get, the less life in prison is a deterrent. I'm pretty confident my last words will be 'well crap, that didn't work'. Of all the things I've lost over the years, I think I miss my metabolism most of all. Nachos are just tacos that don't have their s_it together. I'm not adding this year to my age because I really didn't use it. Ever notice that extra fries and exercise sound a lot alike? |
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My disappointment with both these sports is the fact that they can not reign in the cheating and the participants of their sports are not scared to use PED's. |
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one thing I don't understand is why they're talking like all suspended would get 100 games.......even tho some have been suspended before like Melky Cabrera (tho that was just last year, but then for PEDs taken AFTER Biogenesis)
...and you wonder about ARod's influence in it given Melky, Montero, and Cervelli (possibly others) were Yankees at the time
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Find us on for updates, including site issues. Also now on Reddit, not that I'm sure what we're doing there yet. Don't piss off old people- the older we get, the less life in prison is a deterrent. I'm pretty confident my last words will be 'well crap, that didn't work'. Of all the things I've lost over the years, I think I miss my metabolism most of all. Nachos are just tacos that don't have their s_it together. I'm not adding this year to my age because I really didn't use it. Ever notice that extra fries and exercise sound a lot alike? |
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