One Response to “Re: John Kerry”

1. Ritchie Emmons says:

   February 7, 2009 at 2:48 pm

   I’m a Yankees fan – who lives in Boston no less! The steroid issue is something that I’m losing interest in (to the extent that I was interested in the first place). I certainly don’t condone it, just to be clear. I do however love that Mark McGwire got only 21% of the needed 75% (I think) to get into the HOF. I would love to see the same thing happen to Bonds – as well it might due to the alleged steroid use.

   Better than all that right now is Manny Ramirez. Turning down a $45 and $25 million contracts. I’d love to see him sign for $5 million in KC or someplace. Unlike I guess, but it’d be hysterical.
2. chuck martel says:

   February 7, 2009 at 3:00 pm

   Steroids in baseball and football, blood doping in cycling and running, cobra venom in horse racing, it’s all so wrong. But what’s so right about the various surgical techniques in use to make damaged goods better than new? “Tommy John” surgery to rebuild a damaged pitching arm, rotator cuff surgery, arthroscopic knee surgery, moving nerves around, even eye surgery to improve vision. How far are we from constructing super athletes without pharmaceuticals? Surgery is the next frontier in sports ethics.
3. J.E. Dyer says:

   February 7, 2009 at 3:05 pm

   Why not just call A-Rod “Boy Toy”?
4. From Inwood says:

   February 7, 2009 at 3:16 pm

   Say it ain’t so, ARoid, er, ARod!

   PS: I don’t believe everything I read but this ain’t gonna go ’way quickly.
5. Richard V says:

   February 7, 2009 at 4:08 pm

   Being a Texas Rangers fan (yes, I know, there’s not many of us), A-Rod is at the top of my list of players to root against. I just love the fact that the Yankees haven’t won a World Series with A-Rod, and now with the other self-centered, me-me-me player in Texiera, I predict they won’t win a World Series as long as those two are on the team.
6. Alexander Almasov says:

   February 7, 2009 at 4:10 pm

   I suspect that Mr. Emmons might agree that the snippy superiority we witness would be replaced by another attitude had Rodriguez signed with another team that slavered at his heels just a few years ago. (How many world championships is that in toto, Theo?)
7. Ritchie Emmons says:

   February 7, 2009 at 4:20 pm

   AA #6. I just love to see someone turn down an absurd amount of money, with the expectation of getting more, overplay their hand and have to settle for substantially less. I believe it was Jody Reed several years ago who declined a 3 yr $7 mil contract and eventually settled for a 1 yr $750,000 contract (still good work if you can get it though). High comedy!!
8. ian says:

   February 7, 2009 at 4:43 pm

   MBL brought this upon itself by ignoring the issue for so long. Every team was effected by performance enhancing drugs. Nor could the public ignore the issue as the use of PEDs could be easily measured in the meticulous statistics that are a central part of the game. For the sports viewing public, PEDs become an issue when there is a perceptible effect on performance, something MBL cannot hide by its very nature. I also think the Mitchell report did a disservice to the game. Mitchell had no subpoena or investigative powers and had no mandate from the union that players cooperate, meaning that his report amounted to a handful of players that fell into his lap from other sources. This created the convenient evasion among the willfully ignorant that teams or players not mentioned in the report were not scarred by the issue. The more honest response is that MBL had a universal problem (a problem which of course includes virtually every other sport we can think of), and that any holier than thou reaction is an act of self-delusion and hypocrisy.
9. Ritchie Emmons says:

   February 7, 2009 at 5:35 pm

   A friend of mine met A-Rod at a gym here in Boston. He said A-Rod was a “specimen.” Now we know why!!!!
10. Joe says:

    February 7, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    No surprise. Pay Rod is a A Roid.
11. chuck martel says:

    February 8, 2009 at 1:17 am

    Another side of the story: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/6175/