at this point they should write articles about a star player passing a drug test instead of failing it.
Manny being Manny.....
I don't think it has been confirmed to be steroids yet. Just a banned substance.
Early reports suggest it was some form of "bedroom enhancement"
Nope, Manny being A-Rod.Manny being Manny.....
I don't think it has been confirmed to be steroids yet. Just a banned substance.
Early reports suggest it was some form of "bedroom enhancement"
I just read that it was a female hormone that is used for after you get off steroids and it kick starts the male body to start producing testosterone again.
..If you think half these guys aren't on something, well, I'd like to live in your fantasy world...
What about the half that do play it straight?
Since there is money to be made its okay? Weak, I say.
Thank you Bud Selig, your stewardship of baseball sucks.
I can see where you got that from what I said. More to the point, this is so common now it hardly registers as shocking. I have far more respect for those who do play it straight, but I'm not going to register disappointment when a big name (I am a huge Manny fan, I think he's the best pure right-handed hitter of all time) goes down.What about the half that do play it straight?
Since there is money to be made its okay? Weak, I say.
Thank you Bud Selig, your stewardship of baseball sucks.
I can see where you got that from what I said. More to the point, this is so common now it hardly registers as shocking. I have far more respect for those who do play it straight, but I'm not going to register disappointment when a big name (I am a huge Manny fan, I think he's the best pure right-handed hitter of all time) goes down.
I don't think it's OK to do the stuff. I think it's too much a part of the game now to actually expect anything to be done about it. Where there's a will, there's a way.
I suppose I'm just too cynical.
As I said, I saw Manny up close his first year in pro ball. He was ridiculous then. Patient, beautiful stroke, could hit in any count to all fields. I don't think much of it is from better chemistry, which is the really, really sad part. No amount of chemistry is going to make his outlandish hand-eye coordination any better.Gotcha, no sense fighting the tide - or even getting upset when the tide comes in.
Cant say that Im a Manny fan, but I agree with you on his hitting - some kind of amazing. However, how much of that hitting prowess was Manny and how much was better living through chemistry.
Killer too is that these guys command huge salaries. Huge salaries that are paid, in large part, by television revenues, that are in turn paid by advertisers, fast forward ... and ultimately paid for by regular folks buying Campbells soup or Ford trucks or .
That's why the Craig Counsell type players aren't in the league anymore --- remember when SS and 2B were only about defense? - they used to hit around .220 with 3-8 HR and 55 RBIs.....
then came the "great" A-rod and others....
man, makes me wonder if Ryno was on something - I think he was the first "power hitting" 2B player
He was a terrible defensive player but a career OPS average of 1.006 means he gets on base and scores runs.
No amount of chemistry is going to make his outlandish hand-eye coordination any better.
The reason you don't see defense players who hit .220 any more is because there's no way to quantitatively define a defensive player. You win baseball games by scoring runs, not by making spectacular defensive plays. This is the same reason why Manny was such a valuable player. He was a terrible defensive player but a career OPS average of 1.006 means he gets on base and scores runs.
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