New MLB Doping Scandal

[golfballs]

Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera, Gio Gonzalez and Nelson Cruz among baseball stars linked to Miami

:question:

 

[005]

Would like some clarification before Gio's name is linked with those three.

Wonder if/when suspensions will be handed down.

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

Gio apparently paid the doc in question $1,000. His pops has come out and said he was using this doctor to help with weight loss.

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

Would like some clarification before Gio's name is linked with those three.

Wonder if/when suspensions will be handed down.

No worries mate. Gio's father also said "He (Gio) was as clean as Apple pie".



Granted I have no idea what that means but I like apple pie.

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

No worries mate. Gio's father also said "He (Gio) was as clean as Apple pie".



Granted I have no idea what that means but I like apple pie.

So does Gio apparently...

:hi:

 

[Vercingetorix]

Gio apparently paid the doc in question $1,000. His pops has come out and said he was using this doctor to help with weight loss.

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

Legit as all the other "stories" we get from the accused.

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

At least once I want someone to say:


"Yeah I juiced, I juiced like a SOB"


They would be so much better in the long run. Take the lumps, move on.

 

[Vercingetorix]

Legit as all the other "stories" we get from the accused.

Not as good as Manny Ramirez's female fertility drug, but decent. Make sense that an athlete would go for help with weight loss to a guy whose main business is PEDs.

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

Not as good as Manny Ramirez's female fertility drug, but decent. Make sense that an athlete would go for help with weight loss to a guy whose main business is PEDs.

Bingo. Excellent point.

 

[Notorious B.E.N]

At least once I want someone to say:


"Yeah I juiced, I juiced like a SOB"


They would be so much better in the long run. Take the lumps, move on.

Didnt Giambi and Pettitte pretty much do that? And you never really hear much about them

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

Didnt Giambi and Pettitte pretty much do that? And you never really hear much about them

Seems like they did. Pretty sure Giambi did. I can't remember if Pettitte intially denied and then came clean.. either way society is forgiving by nature if you own up to your mistakes.

 

[005]

I also think people/writers just like Pettitte more than Clemens.

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

That is true.

 

[Notorious B.E.N]

either way society is forgiving by nature if you own up to your mistakes.

Very true

 

[005]

gotta be honest... if all this is true/blows up, it'll upset me a lot more in an "I like Gio Gonzalez and he seems awesome" sense than a "crap who will be our SP" sense

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

I also think people/writers just like Pettitte more than Clemens.

There's a reason for that. Once Clemens started bullying everyone a la Lance Armstrong people started being turned off.

 

[005]

There's a reason for that. Once Clemens started bullying everyone a la Lance Armstrong people started being turned off.

Oh I know. Clemens is kind of a dick and Pettitte seems like a pretty nice guy.

My point was that even without steroids in the equation at all writers and such would favor Pettitte over Clemens just because.

A-Rod owned up to his actions, did he not?

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

At least once I want someone to say:


"Yeah I juiced, I juiced like a SOB"


They would be so much better in the long run. Take the lumps, move on.

Jose Canseco

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

Oh I know. Clemens is kind of a dick and Pettitte seems like a pretty nice guy.

My point was that even without steroids in the equation at all writers and such would favor Pettitte over Clemens just because.

A-Rod owned up to his actions, did he not?

They all own up once they get "caught."

 

[005]

So why should people favor pettitte again?

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

So why should people favor pettitte again?

I think you nailed it in that Pettite is just a nicer guy and didn't start bullying/challenging anyone who asked him about juicing.

 

[005]

I think you nailed it in that Pettite is just a nicer guy and didn't start bullying/challenging anyone who asked him about juicing.

Yep. Just a fact.

The A-Rod, or Bonds even, narrative and commentary is so much different than Pettitte and others.

It all annoys me.

 

[VOLinthaNATI]

Yep. Just a fact.

The A-Rod, or Bonds even, narrative and commentary is so much different than Pettitte and others.

It all annoys me.

Bonds is a total jerk who didn't care about anyone but Barry.

A-Rod I think genuinely tries to go out of his way to be liked while still acting pompous and arrogant which turns many off for sure..

 

[005]

I wasn't in tune enough during Bonds' reign to really recall his interactions with the media. I know they didn't get along and I know he didn't give a ****, just don't remember enough to comment or come to his defense in any way.

One of the best ever, though.