Comments on: Jason Giambi’s career quietly winds down

By: mplsjoe

mplsjoe — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:03:00 +0000

Barry Bonds wasn’t great before he starting using PEDs? We must have been watching different players.

By: bozosforall

bozosforall — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:34:53 +0000

It’s you and the rest of the crybaby NE fan base that need the therapy, loser boy. Nearly a hundred years of NY Yankee domination will do that to you all.

By: j0esixpack

j0esixpack — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:31:25 +0000

On behalf of all New England Fans, I assure you that we will take the comments of individuals who are seriously in need of professional therapy, anger management skills, and medication under advisement.

Have a good day.

By: manchestermiracle

manchestermiracle — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:31:09 +0000

Though he certainly isn’t sorry enough to give back some of the enormous sums of money he “earned” while cheating. Fraud is fraud.

By: manchestermiracle

manchestermiracle — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:30:05 +0000

Except for the minor issue that they weren’t really great until they started cheating.

By: protius

protius — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:37:19 +0000

I have a few extra clues. Would you like one?

By: vallewho

vallewho — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 05:40:54 +0000

most moronic thing I have read today.

By: vallewho

vallewho — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 05:38:44 +0000

I was with you until you mentioned kids…Parents should teach their kids what’s right/wrong.

You have the media hijacking the game on one end, and parents on the other.

Here we have adults playing a game in front of people who buy tickets (most tickets buyers are adults right?). It’s too bad that we the adults can’t even catch a foul-ball without catching some crap from everyone and be shamed for it.

By: mplsjoe

mplsjoe — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:39:04 +0000

The “nice guy” defense to PED use worked best for Andy Pettitte. Guy was as big a juicer as any of them. And, in contrast to the usual narrative, he lied about it repeatedly (he did a lot of “just that one time…OK and that other time too…yeah, that one also…). But because he’s a nice guy, and because once he was finally caught he apologized, he gets a total pass.

For the record, I don’t care who used what PED when. It just bugs me that truly great players like Bonds and McGwire are vilified, not because of what they did but because of their personalities.

By: lazlosother

lazlosother — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:22:12 +0000

Well that’s naive. Melky just got caught, he’s in his twenties. Players in the minors get caught every year. But once ARod is gone we can ignore it all, right?

By: gammagammahey

gammagammahey — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:53:10 +0000

I’ll feel like that era is really over when A-Rod retires.

By: willclarkgameface

willclarkgameface — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:56:52 +0000

For all his waxing poetic about the trials and tribulations he has endured, one thing has STILL NEVER HAPPENED: he has STILL never said he did roids. Not publicly anyway.

F Giambi for leaving the A’s, chasing the money, doing roids, and for never TRULY admitting that he did it. It’s always, “I made a mistake…”

We all have dude. So what. Just talk about it already.

By: bozosforall

bozosforall — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:21:32 +0000

Still waiting for that lying sack David Ortiz to wn up to using…especially given that it has already been leaked that he tested positive for PEDs in 2003. Never stopped the excuse makers in Boston from forgiving him for being a cheater. You Boston fans are the biggest jokes around.

By: itsonlyaspeedbump

itsonlyaspeedbump — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:45:56 +0000

I find the narrative on PED use continually frustrating. Giambi gets to be the good guy because he apologized, even though he tainted the sacred record books. Bonds and Clemens have been vilified not so much for taking PEDs as much as for being defiant and not admitting that they did.

No one has given any credible reason why they get so indignant when they find out Player X took PEDs. Its not for the ‘integrity of the game’ because people dont really care about the so-called integrity when it comes to football. ‘It is illegal’ you say? Well there was a time in this country when it was illegal to drink the beer you drank watching these players. Point being that not all laws hold the same weight. ‘What about the example for the kids?’ What type of example are you setting if you have two standards for people who commit the same actions?

By: ptfu

ptfu — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:33:49 +0000

True dat. It worked for Pettitte too.

By: jxegh

jxegh — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:53:59 +0000

So, if you robbed a bank but didn’t get caught, would you still be a bank robber?

By: 454ss

454ss — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:10:51 +0000

He got caught, anything after that is all B.S.

By: acdc363

acdc363 — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:55:30 +0000

I always thought Giambi looked like that huge guy that the kid in Rookie of the Year pitches to.

By: j0esixpack

j0esixpack — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:31:38 +0000

Fans tend to forgive players that own up to their mistakes…

Unlike Bonds, Clemens and others

By: approvenothing

approvenothing — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:31:05 +0000

I went up to Colorado last year and met Jason. Guys is polite, and seems to be contempt with what he is doing in colorado. Sort of felt like he was doing it for the fans, no matter what type of fan came into the room, he could start up a conversation with them and be best pals in no time.

By: vallewho

vallewho — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:24:57 +0000

I don’t think “that” has anything to do with the coverage that he received. If anything, it intensified the coverage as he was in the biggest media market when it came out. As far as the Yankees, well they got fleeced. No other way to say it.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:18:15 +0000

He is, by all accounts, a very nice guy. Even though he looks like steroids and HGH come to life, it was easy to forgive him and move on. Bonds and Clemens, not so much.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:15:04 +0000

Does he really have to name the drug? Why? He’s been very clear with what he meant in his multiple apologies.

By: vallewho

vallewho — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:13:46 +0000

I like Jason and he certainly was never-no-where-near the baseball player that Barry Bonds was. As far as the media, yeah their fate in the public arena has been largely determined by the coverage. Just as they hijack things such as HOF voting, etc.

By: fuddpucker

fuddpucker — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:12:21 +0000

Jason Giambi, thanks for showing up at that one spring training where you looked like you lost 30-50 pounds and then you lied about how you lost all that weight.

I just wanted you to know how much I remember your deceit when you were winning all those all-star awards and votes. Preciate it’, Jason.

By: sisqsage

sisqsage — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:06:38 +0000

BROKEA…..: As Paul “PED” Lo Duca once said, C’mon bro…

By: mazblast

mazblast — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:44:25 +0000

But he never did it as a YANKEE (cough cough), so the national media will portray him in a good light. It is Known Fact that players may use before becoming a YANKEE and/or after, but never while a YANKEE.

I wish him a happy, healthy retirement. Steroids aside, he seems like a nice guy.

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:26:48 +0000

He admitted he did something “wrong”, but never specifically said he took PEDs. Most likely this was due to being under investigation by the grand jury, but someone can correct me if I’m wrong.

By: brokea$$lovesmesomeme

brokea$$lovesmesomeme — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:47:40 +0000

Correct if I’m wrong but he never actually admitted to it but he didn’t deny it.

By: garryfish

garryfish — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:47:10 +0000

Goodbye Giambino!!