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02-18-2009, 04:03 PM | #11 |
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Ya know I used to really like baseball, followed the players, drafted a fantasy team. Then these greedy f*****g a*****s went on strike and the World Series was canceled. The damn World Series!!!!!!!!! The World Series is for the fans, the excitement, the tradition, and those bums took it all away. And now all these stupid jerks are getting caught for steroid use. What a bunch of losers. Nobody today and nobody today is worthy of carrying the jock strap of great players like Mantle, Maris, Ruth, Aaron, DiMaggio, Cobb...I mean those guys play for low pay, a lot had other jobs in the off season and none of them took steriods........hell they went out every night and drunk til dawn and still put on great performances. Those were men, these bums today suck. With the strike a few years ago and now all of this.....ruined baseball for me.
Further, those players didn't play for little money. Babe Ruth made excellent money for his time, more than the president. Joe DiMaggio used to dispute his contracts (and was an enormous ass in person; if you don't believe me, read Gay Talese's excellent piece on him, "Silent Season of a Hero"). Cobb was ruthlessly competitive and would've used steroids in a heartbeat in the same context as modern players; likewise, he died a multi-millionaire. Mickey Mantle pissed away his talent with alcoholism and other shenanigans. I disagree that the "bums" playing today couldn't match the older generations; I think your Ruths, your Cobbs, Speakers, Joe Jacksons...they'd be stars in any era. But the players today are drawn from a worldwide talent pool (the Pittsburgh Pirates have recently signed two Indian men, after holding a country-wide competition there) they face a much more dazzling variety of pitchers and pitches, pitchers face faster swings with lighter and more flexible bats, and so on and so forth. Albert Pujols is as good as any other right handed hitter that has ever played. Frank Thomas was that good his first 8 years in the league (close to, if not better than, Pujols). Ken Griffey Jr was practically a clone of Frank Robinson...and I'm basing this on stats adjusted for things like era, park, and league. Now, I agree with you about the canceled World Series. That was an undoubted blight on the sport. As is the steroid era. But baseball has always had its blights and it has always come back stronger and better and more popular. It is too great a game to be permanently weighed down by anything those who currently play it can do. They are, as Bart Giamatti once said, temporary bearers of an enduring public trust...enduring is the key word. You are, of course, free to hate baseball all you like. Me, I could never hate it. Me leaving baseball, not watching it, not reading about it, not playing in my decade-old fantasy league...that would hurt me more than anything baseball could ever do on its own.
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02-18-2009, 04:13 PM | #12 |
Crimson Guard
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Be cool if he injected air into his vein. Just once.
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02-18-2009, 04:16 PM | #13 |
yeah......
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dude cheated on his wife with old ass madonna....wtf did you expect?
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02-18-2009, 04:19 PM | #14 |
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You think your upset now, just wait until the Big Boa steroid scandal makes the news.
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02-18-2009, 04:21 PM | #15 |
yeah......
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bah, Boa never bite off anyone's ear......that we know of.....
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02-18-2009, 04:35 PM | #16 |
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02-18-2009, 04:39 PM | #17 |
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It's such a shame that we as society expect our sports players to excel above & beyond which then relates to them taking drugs...getting caught and then society ripping them off of the high horse that we put them on to begin with.
Prime Example = Barry Bonds. What a difference drugs makes. Remember what he looked like on his rookie card? |
02-18-2009, 05:00 PM | #18 |
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A personal favorite of mine.
BTW - Go Braves .
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02-18-2009, 05:04 PM | #19 |
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Braves = Garbage.
Yankees = Pure, delicious WIN. So what if we have A-Joke on our team. Jeter needs a lacky. ;) |
02-18-2009, 05:23 PM | #20 |
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Jeter? Oh God, here we go, don't get me started................
One of my best buds is about the BIGGEST Yankees fans there ever was, I bust his chops ALL the time buy ending just about every phone conversation or e-mail with, "oh btw, F- the Ya.........." Well, you know J/k
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