I hated to know that my favorite game players just did the steroid thing... My hero is broken in very little pieces.
2007-12-14 04:17:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
It is a business. It is about bringing fans to fill the stadiums and make top dollar to line and stuff pockets. Think about this... After the lockout/strike, baseball attendance was at an all time low. The best way to bring the fans back to the parks was to boost the stats of the stars. One way to do this is to create the excitement that the home run race did over recent years and the best way to get the players to hit more home runs was to get them to juice up on steroids and HGH. The owners as well as the players knew this. Bug Selig is a major hypocrite as he encouraged it just as the players took it. They did what they did to fill the stadiums and make top dollar.
2007-12-14 05:02:25 · answer #1 · answered by Todd Maz 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually a very tiny percentage of players were named. Very few prominent players were named in the Mitchell Report. Unless Pettite or Clemens is your favorite, you ought to be able to find another great player who is not accused of being on the juice without too much effort.
BTW, the players named should be accorded the consideration that they are innocent until proven guilty. If the checks and express mail receipts prove it for you, that is probably right. If the uncorroborated accusations of a convicted drug dealer does not prove it for you, that does not sound unreasonable at all.
No, baseball is not a big fraud--a few players were, that's all.
2007-12-14 04:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by mattapan26 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Every player who's proven to have taken performance enhancing drugs should have their career stats erased. Any player who played during this era should be marked with an asterisk for "steroid era".
I grew up idolizing Roger Clemens (when he was in Boston) and even though I hated the Yankees, I loved seeing him win. Now, I hope either he proves he's never taken anything, or moves back to Toronto (out of my country) in banishment. If you're innocent Roger, cooperate.
Watch Minor League Baseball, I've decided to forgo my annual purchase of 20 tickets (10 games for the red sox) and instead purchase season tickets for the Portland Sea Dogs (Red Sox AA). Minor League baseball has the most aggressive testing program and stiffest penalties in pro sports.
2007-12-14 04:28:07 · answer #3 · answered by GPC 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The NBA refs gamble, baseball players are juiced and the NFL front office has made no effort to adress steroids. I'd say it's all a big fraud.
2007-12-14 07:10:24 · answer #4 · answered by SFA Cutie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been how baseball was played for even before most of the children and teens and immature adults here have been watching the sport.
If you don't like the players, their choice of "taking an advantage" or what they stand for, why don't you just watch another sport like figure skating, thumb wrestling or tiddlywinks? I'm sure they don't have any steroid controversies in those sports!
2007-12-14 08:53:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Among the 40 largest metropolitant areas in the country (by the 2008 Census Bureau estimate), only these don't have a team within the metropolitan area: Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA.....4,115,871 Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA...2,207,462 Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA..2,109,832 Orlando-Kissimmee, FL............................2,054,574 San Antonio, TX............................2,031,445 Las Vegas-Paradise, NV...............1,865,746 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA...1,819,198 Columbus, OH.............................1,773,120 Indianapolis-Carmel, IN.................1,715,459 Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC.....1,701,799 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC.1,658,292 Austin-Round Rock, TX.................1,652,602 Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA...1,596,611 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Fran... TN.1,550,733 Jacksonville, FL............................1,313,228 Many of these are too close to existing franchises to have much hope of getting a relocated team or an expansion team in 2018 or whenever the next ones are added. BTW, I was surprised to learn while looking this up that Milwaukee is the smallest SMSA with a major league team. The smallest areas are: Milwaukee (39th largest) Kansas City (29th) - the one I expected to be smallest Cleveland (26th) Cincinnati (24th) Pittsburgh (22nd) Denver (21st) Baltimore (20th) Tampa-St Petersburg (19th) St Louis (18th) San Diego (17th) Minneapolis (16th) Seattle (15th) Jacksonville is the 40th largest. Riverside is 14th largest, then the top 13 all have at least one major league team.
2016-05-23 22:49:50 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a huge st. louis cardinals fan and i can tell you all this steroids mess sucks. i stayed glued to the mc guire soso home run race and now it was all a big lie. I'm about done with baseball. the integrity of the game is forever tarnished in my book and it starts at the top and works its way all the way down.
2007-12-14 05:20:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say it is a big fraud. The problems baseball has have been all too apperant for some time now. Now MLB can work on these problems, and begin the healing process.
2007-12-14 04:22:46 · answer #8 · answered by Known 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically, anyone who entered baseball around 1989 up to this current version of MLB with drug testing, around 2003, can be lumped together.
I'm sorry that your hero might have been caught by this scandal.
2007-12-14 04:27:27 · answer #9 · answered by Matt F 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are not a sport fan or just hate baseball , do you thing football player just naturally grow to that size or basketball play can jump out of sight .or race horse can run like they do without juice everybody looks for an edge ,, just ask your boyfriend .. my god grow up ,,,..
2007-12-14 04:26:21 · answer #10 · answered by G-mack 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋