Tagged with 'major-league-baseball'

Paranoid MLB Banning 6-OXO and Halodrol a Joke

Published: January 8, 2009

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What’s Next – No Flintstones Vitamins for America’s Pastime? Call it a knee-jerk reaction from the entire Mark McGwire/Andro fallout. Anything that can be perceived as more than a multi-vitamin will be scrutinized by a performance-enhancing drug paranoid Major League Baseball. The latest to take the fall are pitchers J.C. Romero and Sergio Mitre, who [...]

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J.C. Romero ‘Phil’ of Shit; Admit Steroids Already

Published: January 7, 2009

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Lefty Reliever Should Just Come Clean Following Second Positive Test Since 2006; Leave Race Card Out How convenient has the “I just used a supplement from GNC” become for professional athletes getting caught using steroids? It’s getting a bit redundant and now add two more to the list – lefty relievers J.C. Romero of the [...]

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NFL Players Steroid-Free, According to Them

Published: December 22, 2008

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SI Players Poll Reveals Some Eyebrow-Raising Results If prisoners in a random federal penitentiary were asked what percentage of them were guilty of their crimes, how many would be honest and admit that all or the vast majority of them deserved to be behind bars? It’s merely human nature to put any type of blame [...]

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Two-Week Parlay for Star Caps Five; Attention Not Helping NFL

Published: December 17, 2008

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Banned Diuretic Case Still Lingering; Next Up on Dec. 22 At some point, the five NFL players who used Star Caps are going to have to pay the piper. The NFL is going to have to enforce their anti-doping policy, as flawed as it may seem. In this day and age of ‘act before react,’ [...]

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Will Bonds’ Collusion Grievance Mean His Return to Baseball?

Published: October 23, 2008

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Players’ Union and Commissioner’s Office Reach Agreement Now that the obvious has been admitted, will it mean that baseball’s home run king will return to the game? It was blatant that collusion took place last summer as offenses struggled and Barry Bonds was sitting home. No team had the guts to sign him or go [...]

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Canseco Still Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Published: October 13, 2008

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Former Slugger and Current Author Practices What He Preaches Although he hasn’t played a major league baseball game since 2001, Jose Canseco is still taking care of his body, at least in the way he has spoken about in his two ‘tell-all’ books. Perhaps even the once-rich and famous are having issues obtaining performance-enhancing drugs [...]

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Yankees “Gearing” Up for Stretch Run by Acquiring Accused Steroid User Pudge

Published: July 31, 2008

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I-Rod a Shell of His Former Self; Fills Catching Hole After Posada Injury A day before the Major League Baseball trading deadline, the Bronx Bombers made a bold move, which shored up their catching situation following a season-ending injury to Jorge Posada. Middle reliever Kyle Farnsworth was sent to the Detroit Tigers in exchange for [...]

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Bonds Sitting Home is Nothing Other Than Collusion

Published: July 15, 2008

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Agent Calls it Like it is; Home Run King Offering to Play for Minimum As the second half of the baseball season is upon us, teams that are making playoff pushes start to separate themselves from the second-division clubs. The trading deadline is still two weeks away, and general managers across the league will be [...]

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Interleague Rivals Weekend Wraps Up Successfully

Published: June 29, 2008

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Subway and Freeway Series’ Finales Both Gems For all the things wrong with Major League Baseball’s Interleague play, weekends like this past one can make them all go away and give the fans what they want. The purists of the game will say that it’s all for money, and while that may be a part [...]

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By George, the Numbers Don’t Add Up

Published: June 5, 2008

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Mitchell Report Sampling Can Go Either Way Perusing the telephone book commonly known as ‘The Mitchell Report,’ it is hard to say if the baseball players that allegedly used performance-enhancing drugs benefited or not. Going by the raw numbers, some did and some didn’t. Now keep in mind that the report included only the time [...]

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