Pujols connected with HGH investigation?

M2 · Post by M2 » Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:21 pm

I hope for baseball's sake this is just speculation but it portrays Pujols in a pretty damning light.

http://www.deadspin.com/sports/baseball ... 179400.php

Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:28 pm

I hope its not true either. I dont think he is on anything other than legal supplements and hard work, but his name being on tha affidavit would pretty much rock baseball worse than any other name. Well, besides Clemens.

M2 · Post by M2 » Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:43 pm

"He was really kind of a pear-shaped kid, heavy from the waist down, and that scared some scouts off," Meyer remembered. "And, like with a lot of Latin players, there were always the inevitable questions about his age."

There were other concerns about his defensive ability and where Pujols would fit on a Major League team.

Consequently, a frustrated Albert Pujols -- after spending a year at Kansas City's Maple Woods Community College, where he met strength and conditioning guru Chris Mihlfeld and started the process of building an Adonis-like upper body-- waited 13 rounds before getting the call from the Cardinals.

http://www.810whb.com/scripts/archives/ ... g=noSearch

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:23 pm

For Deadspin to be printing this is pretty impressive. They're not exactly neutral when it comes to the Cards. In fact it is safe to say that they give the Cards more love than just about anybody.

Shoalzie · Post by **Shoalzie** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:35 pm

It's getting harder and harder to be a baseball fan. I think the only thing keeping me from abandoning it all together is the way the Tigers have been playing. It would make me ill if somehow HGH or any of that crap is attributed to their early season success. It probably is in some matter...I can't help but feel very cynical about what we see. I don't know how even the most hardcore baseball fan isn't disgusted and almost turned off to the sport with we've seen in the last decade or so.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:35 pm

314 is pretty frustrated, but I've heard the mihlfield thing is a stretch because in the blocked out spot where the trainer's name goes its too small to be the trainer's name, and mihlfield has informed the press that grimsley and grimsley's attorney informed him that he was not mentioned.

still puzzling.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:48 pm

wif all those hits he gots you need to. I wake up every morning and eat my Eck-Os in hopes of one day being as big as he is; 5'7''.

I only need to shrink 9".

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:53 pm

I'd not be surprised in the least.

And with his "standing up" for Bonds in the past weeks....

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:09 pm

MLB needs to test that Ichiro guy...there's a juicer, if I've ever seen one.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:22 pm

The trainer:
"I've known Albert since he was 18 years old. Albert won't even drink his protein shakes anymore during the season because he's scared they're contaminated. That's been part of his training for the last five or six years, and all of a sudden he won't even do that. He's tired of it. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of people putting this kid down. He's a great kid. Let him be great. He's clean."

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascit ... 781295.htm

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:12 am

This stinks to high heaven. The fact that Sweeneys name is involved just makes it that much more damning.

There's something rotten in Denmark.