I don't want to split hairs here because I'm dead set against steroid and drug use but Gooden played just a couple of seasons with the Yanks and this is years after his career ended. Why not show him in a Met uniform? I didn't read the book but was Sheffield a Yankee when his alleged infractions took place? While Giambi did not come out and say the words, he all but admitted his use, suffered some serious health side effects and endured a season of fan abuse while winning the Comeback Player of the Year award. I just heard a personal baseball hero of mine, Mike Scmidt, interviewed and he sounded like McGwire as he alibied for the suspected steroid users. Very disasppointing.
I hear you, Georgie. Jeff Reardon was with the Sox only two and a half seasons and retired after the '94 season, but here we are.
I'm a fan of the game first and foremost. There are very few players I admire. On the Yankees I admire Bernie, Posada, Jeter and Mariano. I will admit to rooting hard for Giambi because of everything he went through and the dignity he showed while excelling last year in the face of constant harassment. On the Red Sox I admire Ortiz and Varitek.
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Babe Ruths daughter Julia who is 88 has said she won't meet with Bonds or be a part of any celebration when Bonds passes the Babe on the all-time HR list. But she say's it's just because she's old and doesn't really care anymore about that stuff. Terry
Judge's Letter May Implicate Sheffield From Times Wire Reports April, 7 2006 As much as Gary Sheffield wants to separate himself from Barry Bonds and the BALCO controversy, more damaging evidence emerged Thursday, and it potentially could be used against him in baseball's steroids investigation. A federal judge from Idaho sent a letter last month to Commissioner Bud Selig detailing a random conversation with Greg Anderson, then Bonds' trainer, in an airport in 2002. The letter says Anderson told the judge he had been sent from California to Minnesota by Bonds to "help" Sheffield, who had been "struggling." A Major League Baseball spokesman confirmed Thursday that Selig received the letter last month and gave it to George Mitchell, the former senator named to head MLB's investigation into steroids. Sheffield's attorney, Rufus Williams, declined to comment. Bonds also refused to comment Thursday after the San Francisco Giants' home opener against Atlanta.
Something about that does not sound right. A federal judge sitting in an airport talking to a trainer? A random conversation? I don't buy it. It has nothing to do with my feelings about Sheffield or steroids. It just smells fishy on its face.
:wink: Good catch Sid. I don't buy it either. What are the Grassy Knoll odds on that one? Twenty-five kazillion to one?
:wink: Looks like Johnny Damon's turn to be in the Bronx barrel! http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46897