[USML Announce] Manny Being Barry

[Brad Jansen]

Rick:
  You are right about how we baseball fans care about the game's records,
but was the game purer when the gloves were smaller, or when the ball was
dead, or fences further back?  Weren't players taking speed to recover from
nights on the town (or, in the case of renown Riptorns hero Doc Ellis,
dropping acid to pitch no-hitters)?  Aren't they taking HGH now (because it
can't be detected without a blood test) or other drugs and masking agents
that MLB can't yet detect?  So, I'm just saying I wish none of it were so,
but it still goes on and I'm sitting on the fence as how I view the
performances of those who were proven to have taken a banned substance (at
least once), those who weren't caught and those, if any, who didn't take any
PEDs.
Brad


On 5/7/09, rickgam at comcast.net <rickgam at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  Greetings;
>     This has been discussed by greater minds than I and the bottom line is
> that football/gambling fans just don't care.  Baseball purists (that would
> be us) get really pissed when you start screwing with stats and records, be
> it by juiced balls or juiced dudes.  Football folks say the bigger the
> collisions, the better.  So if their guys want to juice up and shorten their
> already shortened lives, so be it.  Football records aren't anything to get
> excited about.
>     Rick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Jansen" <bljansen at gmail.com>
> To: "USML Announcements" <announce at usml.net>
> Cc: "Conor Jansen" <alisterblack22 at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 1:52:21 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: [USML Announce] Manny Being Barry
>
>  Upon further reflection.....Was MLB dumb to enact its current drug
> policy?  Will it end up killing its own business by suspending high-profile
> guys like Ramirez (and praying that Pujols never gets caught)?  Would it
> have been better off with a touch of sanctimony and nothing more, and
> letting players take whatever they want as they did before?  And why is it
> that baseball as a sport gets singled out for steroid "abuse" and not
> football (or women's gymnastics for that matter)?  I don't get it.   But if
> Manny really took a sexual performance enhancer, wow, that was one expensive
> ride.
>
> And an aside to Mark Blocker: now you must resort to leaving mocking phone
> messages?  How much more must I concede to you?  What's next--a beheaded
> Johnny Damon action figure on my pillow?
>
> --Brad The Befuddled
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