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Sudden Sam wrote:The freakin' lyin' sack o' shit!

smackaholic wrote:I think it'd be more fun to pummel him, throw him into a locker and head the other way on 95 for, oh, 200 miles or so. You can spit at him as he passes niantic or east lyme or where ever the hell you are. Then dump him out on yawkey way......right after a yankees game.

Sudden Sam wrote:

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:

Sudden Sam wrote:The freakin' lyin' sack o' shit!

Uhm... I am fairly certain that every team between 1985-2005 had its share of juice-monkeys. If you work on the assumption that every team was loaded with roid-boys during this era, I think you'll sleep much better at night. Furthermore, MLB's participation in these acts can best be described as complicit, so what the fuck are you whining about?

I'll never forget seeing Lenny Dykstra come in for spring training the year he started. He'd gone from a skinny little worm at the end of the previous season to a bulked up monster. It was so obvious it was ridiculous.

Tejada charged: lying to Congress about steroids
36 mins ago

WASHINGTON – All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada has been charged with lying to Congress about steroids. Tejada is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday where he is expected to plead guilty.

The charges against Tejada, who currently plays for the Houston Astros, were outlined in documents filed in Washington federal court on Tuesday.

The documents indicate that a plea agreement has been reached with Tejada.

Messages left for his attorney, Mark Tuohey, were not immediately returned.

The documents were filed a day after superstar Alex Rodriguez admitted to past use of performance-enhancing drugs.

The FBI also is investigating whether Roger Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young winner, lied to Congress last year when he denied using steroids or human growth hormone.

In the documents filed Tuesday, Tejada is charged with lying to investigators for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2005 when he denied knowledge of an ex-teammate's use of performance-enhancing drugs.

The teammate is not identified in court documents, but is referred to as having played with Tejada on the Oakland Athletics.

Tejada "unlawfully withheld pertinent information from the committee because defendant Tejada, before and during his interview with the committee staff, then and there well knew that player #1, one of his teammates on the Oakland Athletics, had used steroids and HGH," the papers state.

In fact, prosecutors charge, during spring training in 2003, Tejada had purchased a substance believed to be HGH from the player.

The charges are contained in a six-page criminal information, a legal document used often when a defendant has struck a plea deal with prosecutors.

The criminal information charges Tejada with making misrepresentations to Congress.

mvscal wrote:Dick Cheney didn't lie to Congress.

Mikey wrote:DOWN GOES TEJADA!

Apparently these ballplayers feel that they're above the law.
Who do they think they are, Dick Cheney?

Tejada charged: lying to Congress about steroids
36 mins ago

WASHINGTON – All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada has been charged with lying to Congress about steroids. .

Van wrote: His pathetic little "I didn't come here to talk about the past" non answer to Congress means that he never lied under oath.

Van wrote:Btw, who among us thought Jose Canseco was anything but the world's biggest dirt bag, just a few years ago?

Moving Sale wrote:

Van wrote: His pathetic little "I didn't come here to talk about the past" non answer to Congress means that he never lied under oath.

Actually he did lie under oath. He said: "I didn't come here to talk about the past." He also said, "[T]here has been a problem with steroid use in baseball."

Van is too dumb to get how that is a lie I'd wager, since he does know up from down or East from West.

Sudden Sam wrote:Anyone who would consort with that POS nasty-ass skank deserves a serious beatdown.

Roach wrote:
looks like fucking grass hopper legs. jesus.

Sudden Sam wrote:Most of the pervs in here would screw Jess the Rookie.

Van wrote:See if you can get him convicted of lying before a federal grand jury.

[Moving Sale said] living trees aren't alive

south isn't south...because you say so.

Toddowen wrote: I'm not all that convinced of what A-Rod sees in Madonna, with the knowledge that Jeter was one of her playthings once upon a time.

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. (AP)—Ivan Rodriguez looked as feisty as ever, explaining why he’s physically and mentally ready to play baseball.

The 14-time All-Star catcher, though, is still looking for a place to play.

Rodriguez said he might sign soon with the Florida Marlins, Houston Astros or New York Mets.

Or, he might need to stay patient.

“I don’t know where I’m going to play, but a team is going to win the lotto when I sign,” Rodriguez said Sunday night in an interview with The Associated Press. “I still feel I can play three or four more years, to be honest, because of the way I take care of myself.”

The way Rodriguez took care of himself in the past has been questioned, most notably by former teammate Jose Canseco.

Rodriugez’s mood changed when that subject was broached during a wide-ranging interview in his 44th-floor apartment overlooking Miami Beach.

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Is the 37-year-old star known as Pudge on the list of 104 players who tested positive for steroids during baseball’s 2003 survey?

“Only God knows,” Rodriguez said softly.

Canseco, a former teammate in Texas, has alleged he injected the steroids into Rodriguez.

Another former teammate, Alex Rodriguez, recently said he used performance-enhancing drugs while with the Rangers.

“Alex is a great guy, he’s the best player in baseball and he’s going to be OK,” Ivan Rodriguez said. “People don’t know how hard he works.”

Alex Rodriguez said the culture of the game was different when he used drugs to improve his performance.

Ivan Rodriguez begrudgingly agreed.

“It happened and everybody has to move forward,” he said.

Looking back, no one can match some of feats that Ivan Rodriguez has accomplished since his career began in 1991 with the Rangers.

He is the only player in baseball history with at least 13 Gold Gloves and a career .300 average or better.

He has three more Gold Gloves, earning one as recently as 2007, give him three more than Johnny Bench and almost double the total by Bob Boone, who is third on the list. Among position players, only Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson has more Gold Glove awards.

Rodriguez has caught 2,173 games, trailing only Carlton Fisk (2,226) and Boone (2,225) in terms of longevity behind the plate.

“Absolutely, I’d like to break Mr. Fisk’s record,” he said. “And, another goal is 3,000 hits.

“But really, my love of the game of baseball is what motivates me to work out five days a week to stay ready.”

Rodriguez, who has 2,605 career hits, would likely have to play a few more seasons to join the 3,000-hit club.


Ivan Rodriguez takes questions…

AP - Feb 15, 8:15 pm EST
And, he’d have to play much better than he did last season.

Rodriguez hit .295 in 82 games last season for the Detroit Tigers, then finished with a .276 batting average after struggling at the plate with the New York Yankees.

The Tigers dealt Rodriguez, who sparked the turnaround when he signed with them in 2004 after helping Florida win the World Series, and didn’t re-sign him because they didn’t think he was a No. 1 catcher and knew he disagreed.

“I still think I’m an everyday catcher and that’s one of the things that disappoints me when I hear people say I can’t play every day or I’m a part-time player,” Rodriguez said with piercing eyes as the Atlantic Ocean crashed on the beach and dusk led to orange, yellow and shades of gray to fill the sky. “People don’t know how hard it was on me to go through a divorce from my wife of 15 years and how much that drained me physically and mentally.

“But now, I’ve been happily married for two years to a great woman, my kids are great, my ex-wife is good. I just want to play baseball because I know I have a lot left in me.”

While Rodriguez can’t hit like he did in the past, his play behind the plate is still strong. His caught-stealing percentage ranked third in the AL last season after ranking fifth and first the previous two years, among catchers with a minimum of 600 innings behind the plate, according to STATS.

Rodriguez is excited to play for Puerto Rico at the World Baseball Classic next month, but he’s eager to join a Major League Baseball team.

“It’s hard to be sitting here at home a few days after pitchers and catchers reported,” Rodriguez said. “I hear Florida, Houston and the Mets are trying to do some things to sign me.

“I would love to be with any team right now, but I can get ready quick because of the way my body and mind are prepared to play right now.”

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Van wrote: Dude, why do you always pick the most monumentally trivial and lame battles to (poorly) fight? What's with you and these nit picky little hit and run episodes?

Isn't there somewhere you'd rather be? Isn't there yet another person you need to be calling a "racist piece of shit fuckstain," or some other similarly brilliant little sobriquet?

Van wrote:I said Mt Tam was west of SR and north of the 101, as the 101 heads down from SR into the GGB.

Come to think of it, I also said the 101 is north of Mt Tam, when it's...north of Mt Tam. It's north of Mt Tam quite a bit.

Dude, why do you always pick the most monumentally trivial and lame battles to (poorly) fight?

What's with you and these nit picky little hit and run episodes?

Isn't there somewhere you'd rather be? Isn't there yet another person you need to be calling a "racist piece of shit fuckstain," or some other similarly brilliant little sobriquet?

Unfortunately though his only reason for posting these days is to call people names and otherwise add nothing besides petty hit and run attacks. He never starts threads. He never engages in real discussions.

War Wagon wrote:... a JV team poster... [/i]

Moving Sale wrote:

Van wrote:I said Mt Tam was west of SR and north of the 101, as the 101 heads down from SR into the GGB.

Mt Tam is not north of SR EVER!

How fucking dumb are you?

Come to think of it, I also said the 101 is north of Mt Tam, when it's...north of Mt Tam. It's north of Mt Tam quite a bit.

Not as you leave SR it's not.

Unfortunately though his only reason for posting these days is to call people names and otherwise add nothing besides petty hit and run attacks. He never starts threads. He never engages in real discussions.

A)I have not changed my style.