Busch IV makes a good point
Why ban someone for betting on their own team if you aren’t going to ban someone for using steroids to break the home run record?
MITCH BLATT
Last week, Busch family member and the son of Cardinals owner (and very properly named for such an aristocrat) Adolphus A. Busch IV criticized Mark McGwire, Bud Selig and the [...]
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Is there a double standard on Bonds and McGwire on steroid use?
MITCH BLATT
When Mark McGwire got around to talking about the past, he finally admitted to using steroids.
The news was greeted with a collective yawn.
Now some days later, I’m thinking, would Barry Bonds get elicit the same reaction if he admitted to taking steroids?
I know there’s a lot of differences between the two, and I will [...]
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Baseball and Cheating: America’s National Pastimes
Baseball’s numbers may be fake, but what isn’t?
MITCHELL BLATT
Baseball just keeps getting hit with more steroid news, and somehow we are supposed to be surprised, and the game isn’t supposed to be pure.
The latest bad news for baseball is that Manny Ramirez tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs the same week that Selena Roberts released her [...]
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JSB Debates the A-Rod Controversy
Whether you believe A-Rod about when he took steroids or whether he knew what he was taking is a debatable issue. Juiced Sports chimes in with their take on the story sweeping the nation off their feet.
Mitch Blatt: I think you were a little too quick to rush to judgment on A-Rod taking steroids [...]
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Why A-Rod Might Escape Bonds’ Fate
Syringes thrown at A-Rod? Home run balls branded? Maybe not.
MITCHELL BLATT
As Barry Bonds approached the home run record, fans were booing him, throwing syringes at him, and his 756th home run ball was branded with an asterisk.
Now that Alex Rodriguez is approaching the home run record and has admitted to using steroids, will [...]
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What can we really believe anymore?
Alex Rodriguez came clean (sort of) about playing the game dirty from 2001-2003. Now comes the questions, and there will be many of them
SCOTT JACOBS
Sometimes you want to go up to an athlete and ask them, “how stupid do you think I am?”
Alex Rodriguez confessed to using, well something illegal, but he couldn’t put [...]
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A-Fraud Tests Positive For Steroids, Big Surprise
Jose Canseco called it in 2007.
MITCHELL BLATT
Sports Illustrated reports Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003.
Yawn.
Any educated person who follows sports already knew this. Jose Canseco reported in 2007 that A-Fraud took roids. (ESPN) Unfortunately, not many educated people follow sports. Most people thought the 12th all-time home [...]
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Rocker’s an Idiot, Sharpton’s Right and Football Players are Juice-Heads
COLIN LINNEWEBER
• As always, thanks for taking the time to give me some of your time. I hope I entertain you with my take on the past few days in the world of sports.
• New York Yankees Senior Vice President Hank Steinbrenner said yesterday that baseball is unjustifiably tagged as the only sport with a steroid problem [...]
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