About his steroid use?
2007-06-15 03:42:28 · 20 answers · asked by trer 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
This is what happens to whistle-blowers in dishonest businesses. MLB has been hiding their rampant steroid use for a long time, and Bud Selig and others don't want their reputations tarnished. Which is funny because we all know they suck anyway.
Jose Canseco's book was easy to push aside because he's had a bad reputation for a long time. Giambi is a much bigger threat because he's a current player (on the Yankees no less) and is much more liked by the fans. He's taken personal responsibility for his steroid use, but when he implicated that MLB should apologize they threw the book at him.
So Giambi gets punished for being the only one who did the right thing while Stutterin' Sammy, BALCO Barry, Perjurin' Palmeiro, and Mellow Mac get a free pass for lying their asses off. Gotta love the Bud 'Steroids' Selig era of baseball.
2007-06-15 03:59:50 · answer #1 · answered by wise_guy_81 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Jason Giambi has admitted taking steroids... why shouldn't he be punished? It doesn't help to be honest about it, he still broke the rules. Does committing a murder and being honest about it let you off the hook?
I'm not about to say that bonds wasn't/isn't on steroids, because there is no way that he isn't. The second it is 100% proven, he should be punished as well. Selig can't just suspend Bonds at this point because everyone "knows" he takes steroids. I am anti-Bonds 100% and i dont know why they can't catch him doing it, but until they do, he is innocent.
Giambi made a mistake and i believe him when he says he is sorry and shouldn't have done it, but telling the truth doesn't get you off the hook for breaking the rules.
2007-06-15 03:55:20 · answer #2 · answered by Adam B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wasn't there a story that came out a few years ago in the New York times where he admitted to using steroids? Well anyways, they are trying to punish him so he will start talking and naming names. I don't think Giambi will, because if he does start naming names, sources speculate he will have to give his brothers name. And I don't think he will do that. You are right, at least he is being honest. In a way. Not completly. He is the first active player, I've heard at least hint to the fact that he was using. Now if only we can get Bonds to admit to it.
2007-06-15 06:19:38 · answer #3 · answered by thathockeychick23 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
his "honesty" doesn't change the fact that he is a rule breaking cheater. if he wanted to be honest and get it off his chest he should have been honest years ago. personally i think it's disgusting that he or anyone who has tested positive or admitted to using steroids is even allowed to play the game anymore. pete rose appoligized for what he did but he's still banned from the game because he broke the rules and tainted the integrity of the game. the same should go for giambi and all the other steroid users.
2007-06-15 05:34:49 · answer #4 · answered by greg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who cares if he was honest? He admitted to cheating by using a banned substance. Like the guy above said...do you think they should go light on a murderer because he is honest and tells the cops all the people he killed? I hope Giambi gets a 50 game suspension.
2007-06-15 05:18:22 · answer #5 · answered by JT-24 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Giambi hasn't admitted, shown, or recognised something particular in public yet. probable in no way will. yet whilst he's prepared to post to a public flogging, a week interior the stockade in circumstances sq. (with out 24/7 coverage on Fox, ESPN, or the different community), and a ninety 9.9% forfeiture of private wealth (in return for which he gets a unfastened sackcloth and a few ashes), then I say permit him decide for it. Oh, and no e book/multimedia deal in a while. He won't be able to purchase innocence yet he will pay (rather) for alleviation from his guilt. besides, wearing the american pinstripes, quite of those presented via Attica, is punishment adequate.
2016-10-09 06:34:46 · answer #6 · answered by ettl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is being punished because of his honesty. He admitted to breaking the rules, now he is being punished. You can't punish someone without proof. Giambi provided the proof, and now is being punished.
I think he made the right move by dmitting it, but also think if his punishment is too severe, noone else will admit it and have that inevitable shadow looming above them.
2007-06-15 07:33:24 · answer #7 · answered by hurdlemaster21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Giambi is hardly being honest - he only came clean after his grand jury testimony was leaked. Before then, he had done nothing but deny the use of steroids or illegal substances. Once the testimony was leaked, it only benefited him to finally admit his drug use.
Even recently when speaking about the issue, he didn't exactly play the role of martyr. Instead, he blamed baseball by saying that the sport had to come clean, which was a serious case of the pot calling the kettle black. I'm not giving any points for honesty to a guy who only opened up after his lies were exposed.
2007-06-15 04:02:15 · answer #8 · answered by Craig S 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
i think selig is trying to pressure him in everyway just to make an example out of him of what will happen if you take steroids and it is unfair to giambi because what about bonds...hes going for the HR record and is off the hook right now....i say make the example out of bonds and let him get his record and strip him of it...
2007-06-15 03:46:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's been outspoken, I don't know about honest. Anyway, he's being "punished" because he doesn't want to testify under oath to George Mitchell's panel about MLB steroid use.
2007-06-15 03:47:09 · answer #10 · answered by jim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋