From the desk of: BLAME CARLOS MAY
New York Yankees: Alex Rodriguez - Baseball Created Him, So Baseball Must Bring Him Down.
Hoping my computer issues are now behind me, I pondered what topic to tackle first. Then today a buddy of mine asked me for my site name again, because (he's obviously such a devoted reader...) and wanted to see if I had written anything regarding Alex Rodriguez - or should I say, the player formerly known as Alex Rodriguez, better known these days as ARod.
I haven't spent much time at all talking Yankees this season - no particular reason other than I have to be more selective with my subject matter, being as I have more on my plate these days. Personally, I stopped paying ARod any mind years ago. I spent many nights calling into ESPN and venting about him. It became too much though - time wasted. But, whether you want some or not, Alex Rodriguez is the gift that keeps on giving. So here it goes dude. This is for you.
I used to be consumed by what a narcissist I still think he is, or appeared to be. I guessed all along that came with being overly pretty while being raised in a peacock farm like South Florida and gaining notoriety as a high school player, then signing a quarter of a billion dollar contract. But while he was still playing in Seattle, he was just another all-star player fans loved to watch. He was still Alex Rodriguez.
I guess the loosey-goosey times spent with the Rangers never really ended for him. Quite obviously neither has his association with Cousin Yori, who apparently continues to introduce Alex to the pioneering Doctor Moreau's of the PED underworld. Didn't the Yankees front office stipulate Alex end associations with his cousin after his steriod usage in Texas was revealed just a few years ago? If you remember, just prior to that report coming to light, on national TV he looked Katie Couric, and America for that matter, straight in the eyes and denied he ever used steroids. If what has been suspected relating to the whole Bio-Genesis scandal is true, then Alex Rodriguez deserves reclassification as a despicable human being. Why - because he'll prove himself to be a stone faced cheat and liar, again. You know what they say..., first time is on me, but next time is on you - or, Alex in this case. As we speak, he is currently conducting furious spin control, confounding his bosses in a battle of semantics, and wagging the dog via a witch doctor taking to the airwaves - the actions of an innocent man indeed.
I have no special contempt for ARod in particular, none more than I harbor for any other cheat of the game. Name one, fifty, or one hundred users, and I despise them all for the destruction they have wrought upon Baseball's record books. Save me all the talk about the old players taking greenies (amphetamines), because they were used in plain sight. Greenies were provided in a bucket for any player to grab, and there was no contempt towards team mates or opposing players for those that did take a few. It was a non-issue to all concerned. Using modern PED's are a clear and potent form of gaining an artificial advantage - Period.
But ARod is different. He is Major League Baseball's almost perfect, and most beautiful monster, created in a lab, born of this era. Only now, the villagers are finally gathering around the castle with pitchforks and torches. Even Dr. Frankenstein himself, Commissioner Selig wants this monster taken down. Mary Shelly's creation thought he was having fun when he threw the little girl in the pond. He didn't understand the consequences of his actions, and the effects they would have on that innocent, unsuspecting and unassuming child. ARod's classic drama is non-fiction however, which makes him a more sinister and dastardly monster because he knew what he was doing the whole way through. The ignorance and stupidity he claimed once before, can't save him now. His charade has run its course.
With who, and where does the blame lie?
For convenience sake, I like to place the start of the Steroid Era circa 1988, when players (eh hem.. Jose Canseco and McGwire, etc. ) started looking like action figures. If you listened to talk radio back in the early 1990's, there was great outrage being expressed by the fans and hosts alike. The tabloids were hot on the issue as well. The steroids conversation was taking place, I assure you. Here's the problem Baseball faced back then. Bud Selig didn't do nearly enough to present Union Head Donald Fehr with a reasonable and comprehensive account of suspicions that players were using PED's. He never so much as attempted to place public pressure on the union, and at a minimum, make them feel uncomfortable in their practices. Outside of conforming to Olympic testing standards, working against Baseball and Selig was the lack of adequate technology for proper and accurate testing. In that regard, Donald Fehr was right not to entertain any kind of medieval testing procedure for his membership as part of the collective bargaining agreement. But it was Donald Fehr himself who posed the largest obstacle to cleaning up the game, for his staunch protection of guilty players against such policies, and his continued and blatant disregard for the safekeeping of Baseball's competitive integrity
It is no coincidence that today new technology has been developed to conduct proper testing, and that Donald Fehr is no longer head of the Player's Union - and alas, there are major strides being made towards cleaning up the game. The greatest variable in the whole process, turned out to be the passage of time. And that's why Alex Rodriguez is so important as it pertains to closing the era of PED usage. He was perfect; the baseball prototype in every respect - a great American success story with a Latin background, smart and well spoken, skilled, handsome and rich. But when the makers of ARod whipped-up his DNA in a lab, they failed to include a "clue" or even a dash of common sense. ARod took the endless pursuit of perfection from the lab to the playing field, as if born into a preset condition to do so. Time marches on though, and nowadays, that's becoming a big no-no because the empowered villagers can fight back now, and cheats run a real risk of getting caught.
How many cheats have slipped through Baseball's hands because of inadequate or no testing procedures or via retirement, and got to ride-off into the sunset free from any repercussions for their usage of PED's? Punishment is key, and the hammer must weigh heavily upon the players Baseball still has in hand. Let discipline be swift and impactful, to equal the harm these players have imposed on the game, and let them know baseball's wrath. Start with who is turning out to be the most aloof of them all, the player formerly known as Alex Rodriguez. Affect his money and playing career, just as he has adversely affected the record books and the game, with blatant recklessness and abandon. I know that sounds a bit hostile. I'm just in the moment, but let's see how these cheats like MLB imposing a sense of humbleness back into the game.
* That little girl is a fictional character. No baseball players were harmed in the writing of this post.
Mike.BTB
Showing posts with label steroids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steroids. Show all posts
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Steroids Make the World go 'Round
Here's the problem ~ Congress affords Baseball anti-trust exemption.
Therefore Baseball enjoys the benefit of being an insulated entity. When Gov't (probably prodded by Jim Bunning and a few others) decides to check in on the NATIONAL Pastime from time to time, they are justified. They aren't going after Rocket because he did steroids. He like Martha Stewart lied to Congress. Congress has always gone after those who lied to them; from all walks of life.
Outside of that little detail, I don't like a meddlesome government either, so that argument speaks loud and clear to me. But excuse Congress for doing what Fay Vincent wanted to do over 20 years ago but whom the owners stopped cold in his tracks.
The instituting of Selig as C'mish was all part of a greater plan by the owners to alleviate themselves of Good C'mishes who really did have the best interests of Baseball foremost on their mind. Selig, or whomever was going to be made Commissioner then, would surely be a person who had the OWNERS best interest foremost on their mind. Selig; of the owners; by the owners; for the owners. He could have done what Vincent wanted to do which was get on the soapbox, raise the concerns of PED usage and putting the pressure squarely on the PA to respond in the court of public opinion. Maybe then Donald Fehr could have been broken. But Selig didn't try. And (Fehr is equally to blame but his mandate is to protect the membership).
For TWENTY-plus years Selig stayed mute. If Congress wants to step in from time to time because they allow Baseball (the only ones) to exists with anti-trust exemption, be happy because SELIG blew it and that's why we are where we are. When the owners said HomeRuns are good, Selig listened. Now look at our game and our records...and our attitudes.
I submit to you we are more apathetic to the game now than we were in 1995 after the strike. Baseball did not need McGwire and Sosa to save it. That is BULL$hit right there! because Baseball, since 1846 has survived every vice man has tried to sully the game with. So to all that buy that crap They saved the game...You have no idea what you're talking about. Read your history people. Steroids, though harmful to our record books and our pockets in the price we pay for tickets, appears as a mere pimple on baseball's ass compared to the things players and owners and direct competition from rivals hath wrought. Baseball is the megalith it is because of vices! Think about it.
That was a pure rant!
Mike.BTB
Therefore Baseball enjoys the benefit of being an insulated entity. When Gov't (probably prodded by Jim Bunning and a few others) decides to check in on the NATIONAL Pastime from time to time, they are justified. They aren't going after Rocket because he did steroids. He like Martha Stewart lied to Congress. Congress has always gone after those who lied to them; from all walks of life.
Outside of that little detail, I don't like a meddlesome government either, so that argument speaks loud and clear to me. But excuse Congress for doing what Fay Vincent wanted to do over 20 years ago but whom the owners stopped cold in his tracks.
The instituting of Selig as C'mish was all part of a greater plan by the owners to alleviate themselves of Good C'mishes who really did have the best interests of Baseball foremost on their mind. Selig, or whomever was going to be made Commissioner then, would surely be a person who had the OWNERS best interest foremost on their mind. Selig; of the owners; by the owners; for the owners. He could have done what Vincent wanted to do which was get on the soapbox, raise the concerns of PED usage and putting the pressure squarely on the PA to respond in the court of public opinion. Maybe then Donald Fehr could have been broken. But Selig didn't try. And (Fehr is equally to blame but his mandate is to protect the membership).
For TWENTY-plus years Selig stayed mute. If Congress wants to step in from time to time because they allow Baseball (the only ones) to exists with anti-trust exemption, be happy because SELIG blew it and that's why we are where we are. When the owners said HomeRuns are good, Selig listened. Now look at our game and our records...and our attitudes.
I submit to you we are more apathetic to the game now than we were in 1995 after the strike. Baseball did not need McGwire and Sosa to save it. That is BULL$hit right there! because Baseball, since 1846 has survived every vice man has tried to sully the game with. So to all that buy that crap They saved the game...You have no idea what you're talking about. Read your history people. Steroids, though harmful to our record books and our pockets in the price we pay for tickets, appears as a mere pimple on baseball's ass compared to the things players and owners and direct competition from rivals hath wrought. Baseball is the megalith it is because of vices! Think about it.
That was a pure rant!
Mike.BTB
Monday, July 26, 2010
Player Formally Known as Alex Rodriguez
The player formerly known as
ALEX RODRIGUEZ
is about to hit Home Run number
ALEX RODRIGUEZ
is about to hit Home Run number
600!
And I Don't Really Care!!
This would have meant a lot to me....once.
ALL of Baseball is responsible for my apathy right now.
To bad for me I guess.
BTB
**image ~ zazzle.com
**image ~ zazzle.com
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Not what Clark Kent had in mind?
TRUTH
JUSTICE
Goldman Sachs ~ Capitalism's Finest
and the
AMERICAN
WAY..
With all respect to Jonestein over at BAPL, will someone or something
PLEASE bless this country..?
Gee I hope the Mayans are right!
BTB
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Yea, another McGwire post, Just Wondering. Sandy Alderson
LaRussa has a similar train of thought.
Why do you suppose they are so willing to throw 'others' under the bus, and seem so willing to support Mark? Hmmm? I have lotsa ideas on that. But I was just wondering.
The NY Daily News on March 13, 2005 had an expose' about McGwire's alleged usage of PED's.
...finally, I think I'm done getting on McGwire. Time to get on with things. I know I said that before.
Alderson picture: http://www.padresnation.com/
Newspaper clips from NY Daily News, NY Newsday, NY Post
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Canseco and the MONSTER
So Jose Canseco,
Mr. Vindicated himself,
The Daniel Boone of the Steroid Era,
The Capt. (K)Jerk of the Star-Juicing Federation of Cheats,
Bluto, to Mark McGwire's Popeye, said.....,
Jose said "PUFF the MUTANT SLUGGER", McGwire, wasn't being forthright with us yesterday basically calling him a liar.
Jose, Go'way, Jose has been the most truthful person of the whole steroid era. Everything the Oracle at Gold's Gym has said thus far, rang true. Why should we stop believing him now? I wouldn't trust him to mail a letter for me. But he has an axe to grind and we are the beneficiaries. Think about it, most of what we do know about the Steroid Era has either been leaked, as in THE LIST and the Balco investigation, AND whatever JOSE noway! Canseco has told us.
Which gets me back to Puff the Mutant Slugger.
Popeye told Bob Costas that the Steroids didn't help him hit a single home run. He learned his craft and studied and worked hard and was given good DNA, so says him. The steroids were to keep him healthy and on the field.
Really? Really.....really. Really? C'MON!
We waited nine years for this? This is the best he could do after nine years? Really? Really!?
He didn't remember what he took. Typical. He only did HGH one or two times. Typical. He only did it to come back from injury and sustain health. Typical Typical Typical. Check Check Check.. There is a motif in the Genesis here folks. Andy Pettitte and Popeye using the same ruse. Don't forget folks, we had to shake the truth out of Dear Lovable Andy....TWICE! I digress. A-ROD used his LOOSEY GOOSEY time line and stressed about living up to a contract. Yea, whatever.
Whatever DUDES!
Folks I bring you the case for Frankenstein, the Innocent.
Bud Selig is Dr.Frankenstein and his trusty lab assisstant Igor, Donald Fehr. The two together are The Louis and Clark of the Steroid Era, Captain Chaos and his sidekick Confusion, allowing Players to boldly go where no record has gone before. I digress again. Pardon.
You know the legendary tale of Frankenstein, apply here!....so I don't have to get too detailed with this analogy. I'll get right to the heart of this legendary classic we call Frankenstein and the MONSTER we call the Steroid Era. The cast is being played out by players of the much broader ERA I call the Marvin Miller Effect, who because of the money secured to them through agents like Scott Boras, and owners who were always afraid mostly of they themselves, created an environment that pervades all aspects of Baseball and brings us to today. Part of that blanket statement I just made means these players live in fantasy land and believe they exists on a totally different realm than you and me. We the Plebs are just that, bottom of the status ladder. The bottom bottom bottom line why we pay so much to go to a game is because they make they salaries they do, the owners agree to it, and pass the cost off to us. Somehow we blindly agree to this social contract. Of course a few bad apples spoil it for everyone. Of course. 90% are very quite normal. but we don't care about them. We only care about the one's who destroyed our record books like Godzilla trampling through Tokyo. So, we kinda helped create this MONSTER.
But grab pitch-fork in hand and torch too. Because the Monster we didn't mind too much about at first, has gotten out of control and destroyed our hallowed records as we once knew them. Frankenstein the Monster caused the loss of that little girl's life when they played with lillies by the pond.
Here's the whole difference folks. Dr.Frankenstein's MONSTER was innocent. The monster didn't realize it was doing anything wrong when it threw the little girl into the pond. Clever editing prevents us from knowing what really happened in the movie huh? But these players knew. They knew exactly what they were doing, when they were doing it, how they were doing it, with who they were doing it, what cycle they should be on, knew the pronounciation of every syllable of every steriod, etc etc...
That makes Frankenstein's Monster Innocent and OUR MLB MONSTERS, guitly.
KILL THE MONSTER!!!!
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Mr. Vindicated himself,
The Daniel Boone of the Steroid Era,
The Capt. (K)Jerk of the Star-Juicing Federation of Cheats,
Bluto, to Mark McGwire's Popeye, said.....,
Jose said "PUFF the MUTANT SLUGGER", McGwire, wasn't being forthright with us yesterday basically calling him a liar.
Jose, Go'way, Jose has been the most truthful person of the whole steroid era. Everything the Oracle at Gold's Gym has said thus far, rang true. Why should we stop believing him now? I wouldn't trust him to mail a letter for me. But he has an axe to grind and we are the beneficiaries. Think about it, most of what we do know about the Steroid Era has either been leaked, as in THE LIST and the Balco investigation, AND whatever JOSE noway! Canseco has told us.
Which gets me back to Puff the Mutant Slugger.
Popeye told Bob Costas that the Steroids didn't help him hit a single home run. He learned his craft and studied and worked hard and was given good DNA, so says him. The steroids were to keep him healthy and on the field.
Really? Really.....really. Really? C'MON!
We waited nine years for this? This is the best he could do after nine years? Really? Really!?
He didn't remember what he took. Typical. He only did HGH one or two times. Typical. He only did it to come back from injury and sustain health. Typical Typical Typical. Check Check Check.. There is a motif in the Genesis here folks. Andy Pettitte and Popeye using the same ruse. Don't forget folks, we had to shake the truth out of Dear Lovable Andy....TWICE! I digress. A-ROD used his LOOSEY GOOSEY time line and stressed about living up to a contract. Yea, whatever.
Whatever DUDES!
Folks I bring you the case for Frankenstein, the Innocent.
You know the legendary tale of Frankenstein, apply here!....so I don't have to get too detailed with this analogy. I'll get right to the heart of this legendary classic we call Frankenstein and the MONSTER we call the Steroid Era. The cast is being played out by players of the much broader ERA I call the Marvin Miller Effect, who because of the money secured to them through agents like Scott Boras, and owners who were always afraid mostly of they themselves, created an environment that pervades all aspects of Baseball and brings us to today. Part of that blanket statement I just made means these players live in fantasy land and believe they exists on a totally different realm than you and me. We the Plebs are just that, bottom of the status ladder. The bottom bottom bottom line why we pay so much to go to a game is because they make they salaries they do, the owners agree to it, and pass the cost off to us. Somehow we blindly agree to this social contract. Of course a few bad apples spoil it for everyone. Of course. 90% are very quite normal. but we don't care about them. We only care about the one's who destroyed our record books like Godzilla trampling through Tokyo. So, we kinda helped create this MONSTER.
But grab pitch-fork in hand and torch too. Because the Monster we didn't mind too much about at first, has gotten out of control and destroyed our hallowed records as we once knew them. Frankenstein the Monster caused the loss of that little girl's life when they played with lillies by the pond.
Here's the whole difference folks. Dr.Frankenstein's MONSTER was innocent. The monster didn't realize it was doing anything wrong when it threw the little girl into the pond. Clever editing prevents us from knowing what really happened in the movie huh? But these players knew. They knew exactly what they were doing, when they were doing it, how they were doing it, with who they were doing it, what cycle they should be on, knew the pronounciation of every syllable of every steriod, etc etc...
That makes Frankenstein's Monster Innocent and OUR MLB MONSTERS, guitly.
KILL THE MONSTER!!!!
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Friday, January 08, 2010
1999 - 2009 Then & Now.......DOH!
There once was a day when baseball players looked closer to this,
...than the players of today. But then a real "Loosey Goosey Time" and counter-culture took root with-in the beautifully manicured fields of baseball green in parks across America, primarily because of:
...And by 1999 many players were using...
Players thought this stuff just the coolest thing ever. After all, they're all just young and stupid right? Anyway, it made them go from feeling like...
...especially in the dog days of August, to feeling like....
So a bunch of these guys, drunk with their new super powers took bat in hand and proceeded to point, laugh and mock Baseball in 1999. Forty-four players hit over 30 home runs. Thirteen players hit 40 plus home runs. Two players hit over 60 home runs. Whew...Hot diggity-Dog!! If we didn't know any better we'd say they swung a bat like.....
McGwire 65 Sosa 63 Griffey 48 Palmeiro 47 C.Jones 45
GREG friggin VAUGHN 45!!!
Delgado 44 Manny 44 Bagwell 42 S.Green? 42 V.Guerrero 42
A-Rod 42 Piazza 40
31 other players hit over 30 in the year 1999. The Artist Originally Known as Prince wrote that song just for them.
Fast-foward ten years. You are there, 2009. The season ends with no one hitting over 60 home runs or
50 home runs. Five players hit over 40.
Pujols 47 Fielder 46 Howard 45
M.Reynolds 44 & A.Gonzalez 40.
twenty-five more players hit over 30 home runs.
I gave you the numbers. You do the math.
Greg Vaughn? Ged 'oudda heeya wit d'at!!! Ya gotta be kiddin me!!
Monday, January 04, 2010
No FEHR vs. No FEAR equals...A FIGHT !
BUD SELIG, Igor to the owner's Frankenstein, will be stepping down from his post, so he says. DONALD, the biggest hinderance to rectifying the PED-era, FEHR, broke out of town like Spiro Agnew when Richard Nixon's house was about to crumble around him.
Fay Vincent wanted to start with reasonable suspicion and investigate suspected usage of PED's in baseball invoking the best interests of Baseball. C'mon...we were screaming about Canseco back in 1988! Fay also stuck his nose in too deep for the owners' tastes, into the negotiations of a collective bargaining agreement when he was still commish. Both those efforts got him effectively fired by the owners. They instituted their "Gumba", their "Pizo", and pulled his strings the way they wanted ever since. Want Evidence? - You explain that 3 Card-Monte he orchestrated with the swap of Boston/Florida and the mothballing of the Expos, sending them off to vacation in Puerto Rico (which incidently is an outrageously beautiful island,...sorry...I strayed), and dropped a cherry on top by allowing Peter Angelos to steal all the new-Nat's TV money? Selig was/is for the owners, by the owners.
However he could have shouted from the highest mountain top about steriods, and it would have changed nothing. Selig's crime is ignorance, and denial planned or otherwise and Crony'ism. PED talk fell on deaf ears unless Donald Fehr wanted to do something about it. Which by the way for the last 20 years has meant, Nothing.
MLB/Selig ignored it as long as they could get away with it.. But after the Congressional FreakShow with Slammin' no english Sammy So-So, Groucho, Harpo, Canseco, Raffy and "no interest in the past" Andro-Man McGwire, then the recurring positive tests under terms of the re-opened bargaining agreement, plus leaks from the sample testing list revealing huge names, and full knowledge that he, D.Fehr, himself knew who was on that list, well...He left under the cover of darkness On That Midnight Train to Georgia. He knows what's up. Here's what I think...what's up.
I think baseball is tremoring towards the biggest structural upheaval it's been through since Marvin Miller won the right to institute the current model baseball operates by - Free Market, strong Survive and (now subsidize).
You know a salary cap is on the table. The owners detest arbitration - the single most reason for the escalation of player salaries. Slotting minor league/amatuer players from the draft is a huge 800 pound gorilla they want resolved also. Then obviously, steroids.
This is the biggest reason there are so many as-yet unsigned players available. Have you noticed the preponderance of one and two year deals being signed? It's because times are-a-changing.
Selig...gone. Fehr...gone. We know right from the beginning, the next collective bargaining session is going to be unlike any we've had to endure in nearly two decades. The Union's no FEHR, and the owner's no FEAR could mean trouble for all of us. Fight in the schoolyard!!
Enjoy THIS season! : o
post script: If you're around my age 40z...If you remember back to at least the 1976 Olympics.....My point is.... because I was about to get stupidly verbose....SAVE!
Say if you were around in the 70z, we knew back then the Eastern Bloc countries were getting juiced like Roman Soldiers drinking after victory. By the early 80z it was common knowledge. But because we put baseball on the perverbial pedistal like we do, we ignored it just the same. We kept paying to see them.
: O
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Fay Vincent wanted to start with reasonable suspicion and investigate suspected usage of PED's in baseball invoking the best interests of Baseball. C'mon...we were screaming about Canseco back in 1988! Fay also stuck his nose in too deep for the owners' tastes, into the negotiations of a collective bargaining agreement when he was still commish. Both those efforts got him effectively fired by the owners. They instituted their "Gumba", their "Pizo", and pulled his strings the way they wanted ever since. Want Evidence? - You explain that 3 Card-Monte he orchestrated with the swap of Boston/Florida and the mothballing of the Expos, sending them off to vacation in Puerto Rico (which incidently is an outrageously beautiful island,...sorry...I strayed), and dropped a cherry on top by allowing Peter Angelos to steal all the new-Nat's TV money? Selig was/is for the owners, by the owners.
However he could have shouted from the highest mountain top about steriods, and it would have changed nothing. Selig's crime is ignorance, and denial planned or otherwise and Crony'ism. PED talk fell on deaf ears unless Donald Fehr wanted to do something about it. Which by the way for the last 20 years has meant, Nothing.
I think baseball is tremoring towards the biggest structural upheaval it's been through since Marvin Miller won the right to institute the current model baseball operates by - Free Market, strong Survive and (now subsidize).
You know a salary cap is on the table. The owners detest arbitration - the single most reason for the escalation of player salaries. Slotting minor league/amatuer players from the draft is a huge 800 pound gorilla they want resolved also. Then obviously, steroids.
This is the biggest reason there are so many as-yet unsigned players available. Have you noticed the preponderance of one and two year deals being signed? It's because times are-a-changing.
Selig...gone. Fehr...gone. We know right from the beginning, the next collective bargaining session is going to be unlike any we've had to endure in nearly two decades. The Union's no FEHR, and the owner's no FEAR could mean trouble for all of us. Fight in the schoolyard!!
Enjoy THIS season! : o
post script: If you're around my age 40z...If you remember back to at least the 1976 Olympics.....My point is.... because I was about to get stupidly verbose....SAVE!
Say if you were around in the 70z, we knew back then the Eastern Bloc countries were getting juiced like Roman Soldiers drinking after victory. By the early 80z it was common knowledge. But because we put baseball on the perverbial pedistal like we do, we ignored it just the same. We kept paying to see them.
: O
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