Comments on: Ibanez flap: New Media isn’t at fault; dumb old baseball is

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:47:17 +0000

TIME FOR PETE ROSE TO BE IN THE HALL OF FAME….wait, was he on steriods? or just plain stupid?

By: Buzz Capra

Buzz Capra — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:48:39 +0000

Dumping on Selig is an easy cop-out for the ill-informed. The MLBPA is 100% to blame for the steroid mess, not MLB. Fehr would never agree to drug-testing in any form and Selig would have had to shut down the game and break the union in order to start a drug-testing program. The MLBPA’s membership were the cheaters/users and their union protected them from detection until the scandal broke and they had to agree to the current testing program under extreme public and congressional pressure.

Ibanez might be clean and could be being unfairly scrutinized but I don’t feel sorry for him one bit. He should have been one of the many clean players in the steroid era (assuming there were some) who demanded that their union protect the clean players, not the cheaters, by demanding a vigorous drug testing program from day one. This is the price you pay for not standing up and demanding that the union look out for all of its members and not just the guys hitting 75 homeruns per year while losing their hair and sporting acne all over their backs.

Put the blame where it belongs: On the players and their union. If Raul Ibanez is really PO’d, he should not blame some blogger who is making a natural point about a 37 year old who is having a career year in the steroid era. He should go find Donald Fehr and punch him in the face!

Selig has actually done quite a masterful job of generating public pressure on the issue and then using that to extract drug-testing-concessions from the union. The Mitchell Report was 100% his idea and he was smart enough to realize that, even though it would generate bad publicity for his beloved sport, it was the only way he could get the leverage necessary to clean up this major problem long-term.

By: Random

Random — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:49:41 +0000

MB: ” And nobody, whether he’s sitting in the commissioner’s office or snuggled up in his mom’s basement, can see a way out of this mess. Nobody, I say.”

I certainly can — it’s simple.

LEGALIZE STEROIDS.

Period, the end. End the hypocrisy and witch-hunts in one fell stroke.

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:55:38 +0000

Everyone here in Philly knows that Rauuuuuuul is off to such an amazing start both because he’s playing in a new league, so the pitchers don’t know what they’re up against, and, more importantly, because he hits in a lineup stacked with MVP-caliber hitters, so the pitchers couldn’t start pitching around him even once they realized what they were up against. I mean, I haven’t checked the guy’s stool or anything, but I’d be shocked if he were juicing. And I know I’m not the only phan willing to give Ibanez the benefit of the doubt. Plus, why would a guy who just signed a 3-year contract worth more than $10 mil per year do anything to jeopardize his job? And knowing he’d make the same great money even if he sucked, why would he even bother cheating? The guy’s just great.

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Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:09:07 +0000

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By: Supes

Supes — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:28:42 +0000

Repeat after me, there is no testing for HGH, which is just as potent as anabolic steroids for putting on muscle mass and improving overall strength (through muscle gains). You can only detect it through blood doping and let’s face it…it’ll never happen. If baseball players CARED so fraking much about “coming out clean”, submit to Olympic standard type testing. Then it’ll be CLEANED UP once and for all. Until then, it’s still a joke. (current system) and it DOESN’T work, no matter how Bud and anyone else tries to spin it.

By: NCBravesFan

NCBravesFan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:56:20 +0000

Well Mark, Schultz has Hot Phone Sex Princess, and now you have Sawamura Award Winning Pitcher Kenshin Kawakami patrolling your l’il space in the blogosphere.

As the late Mel Allen would say, “How ’bout that?!”

By: Jack G.

Jack G. — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:15:14 +0000

Baseball is the culprit here, but the Media has its share of blame also.

Example—-The Media crucified Rocker, but no one , I repeat no one ever said he lied.

By: P Rose

P Rose — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:47:49 +0000

Bite My Tire

for Bud Selig

You know that it would be untrue

You know that I would be a liar

If I said they had a clue

Sosa Bonds or Mark McGuire

Come on Bud and bite my tire

Ibanez is such a liar

The time to pussyfoot is through

The situation’s gotten dire

MLB can only lose

And the sport become a funeral pyre

Come on Bud and bite my tire

Bradley’s preachin’ to the choir

If Clemens wasn’t on the juice

If Manny isn’t gettin’ higher

Barry’s head is like a moose

Ibanez, he might as well retire

Come on Bud and bite my tire

Donald Trump should say “you’re fired!”

By: randy

randy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:46:28 +0000

mark, did terrance moore get fired?