tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post7403958687297812619..comments2023-10-28T08:31:25.462-04:00Comments on Subway Squawkers - A Yankees-Mets Rivalry Blog: Time for baseball to end steroid coverupSubway Squawkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04156896665605326549noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-23171313523713763352009-02-09T19:54:00.000-05:002009-02-09T19:54:00.000-05:00haha nice!haha nice!Ryan Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15286611981184767134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-90260466328573352782009-02-09T16:13:00.000-05:002009-02-09T16:13:00.000-05:00RyanO: Jack Bauer, like Joe Buck and other Fox cha...RyanO: Jack Bauer, like Joe Buck and other Fox characters, is fictional. He doesn't really exist. Good thing, too: Our government isn't supposed to torture. That's what pitching staffs are for. (Ha ha.)<BR/><BR/>Anon: A-Rod "a man of wealth and taste"? You're half-right, he has wealth.Uncle Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618876073064128027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-22277033175717577642009-02-09T15:54:00.000-05:002009-02-09T15:54:00.000-05:00Aroid had little option but to fess up to the ster...Aroid had little option but to fess up to the steroid use. He has handlers and pr people to help him through this, and unles they are morons, the only way was to fess up and say it was only during the 01-03 seasons. the fact that he has not had a positive test since then helps his case. he might be able to limit the damage, much as pettitte did with his mea culpa. <BR/>kmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-45133383725637940702009-02-09T15:06:00.000-05:002009-02-09T15:06:00.000-05:00A-Rod admitted to Peter Gammons in an interview to...A-Rod admitted to Peter Gammons in an interview today that he did use steroids as a Texas Ranger.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-60501807397821609412009-02-09T14:41:00.000-05:002009-02-09T14:41:00.000-05:00Cue up the music......"Please allow me to introduc...Cue up the music......<BR/><BR/><BR/>"Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste......"<BR/><BR/>"Sympathy for the Devil"<BR/><BR/>Rolling StonesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-88048187480351493862009-02-09T14:30:00.000-05:002009-02-09T14:30:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-46499267139430643382009-02-09T14:22:00.000-05:002009-02-09T14:22:00.000-05:00I laugh alot at this current ARod predicament and ...I laugh alot at this current ARod predicament and all Yankee involvement w/ steroids. But seriously...release the names and grill clubhouse attendants from major league teams. <BR/><BR/>This might not be legal so we might need Jack Bauer...he gets results.Ryan Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15286611981184767134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-13782492681329638232009-02-09T14:07:00.000-05:002009-02-09T14:07:00.000-05:00Mike,I agree, release all the names. But I think ...Mike,<BR/>I agree, release all the names. But I think it is a little pathetic that you think if it includes the names and teams you want (and you seem to really WANT those names to be ont he list), it somehow explains why your team has been beaten so badly this decade. Since many members of the Yankee organization were taking steriods, how can it minimize your losses if the teams that beat yours were as well? Wouldn't that at least make it a level playing field. But release the names and if Boston or other team's players are on it let's deal with it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-19600896019215254342009-02-09T13:44:00.000-05:002009-02-09T13:44:00.000-05:00Let’s put aside the fact that the suggestion is be...Let’s put aside the fact that the suggestion is being made by Curt Schilling: If a suggestion has merit, people less loathsome than he (there are about 6 billion living on this planet today) will agree with it. The entire 104-name list should be released.<BR/><BR/>This brings to mind Joe McCarthy. Not the Yankee manager of the 1930s and early 1940s, but the crazy Senator of the 1950s. He would hold up a piece of paper and say, “I hold in my hand a list of (pick a number, any number) (pick a target: Communists, or Communist sympathizers, or enemy agents, or subversives) working in (pick an area: the State Department, the Justice Department, and so on). And the piece of paper, as it turns out, would be blank. Or it would be a shopping list, or a laundry list, or some document from his Senate office that had nothing to do with the issue of Communism.<BR/><BR/>I don’t know if the number 104 is accurate, but I want to see the names. And if that list has names from the 1996-97 Orioles, the 1997-2003 Marlins, the 1999-2008 Red Sox, the 2000 Mets, the 2001 Diamondbacks, the 2002-05 Angels, the 2006 Tigers, the 2007 Indians and the 2008 Rays, then we Yankee Fans deserve to know, so that we can say that the teams that “beat us” did it, too, or perhaps even more than our players have been accused of doing.<BR/><BR/>And, of course, Schilling could be one of those guys. Why wouldn’t he be? He used to be one of the biggest Clemens acolytes; if Clemens is guilty, why wouldn’t Schilling be? (Of course, it also works the other way: If Schilling is guilty, then how many defenses does Clemens have left?) Schilling says he’s clean. So did Clemens. So did Barry Bonds. So did Rafael Palmeiro. So, sort of, did Gary Sheffield.<BR/><BR/>Joel Sherman writes a good column, and he wrote a terrific book on the 1996 Yankees, “Birth of a Dynasty.” But right now, the percentage of people who think Alex Rodriguez is still a hero is roughly that of the people who think George W. Bush is still a hero. Come to think of it, Bush sold the Texas Rangers to Tom Hicks, who gave A-Rod that obscene contract. But this is one thing we probably can’t blame on Bush, even if Hicks is one of the guys he “pals around with,” to use a Republican faux-populist phrase.<BR/><BR/>The irony, Jon, is that you’re more likely to see Bud Selig, Don Fehr and Gene Orza up there and finally spilling the beans – possibly an intended pun, Boston fans – than A-Roid.<BR/><BR/>The only way we’re going to get anything resembling a confession out of him is if there’s a sportswriting equivalent to David Frost out there: “I’m saying that when the best player in baseball does it, that means it is not cheating!”Uncle Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618876073064128027noreply@blogger.com