Comments on: It’s spring training for PED moralists, too

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:23:33 +0000

Another reason I should have limited my original statement to baseball

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:55:46 +0000

Steroid baggage is not good. Most airlines will charge you an extra $25 for it.

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:23:29 +0000

it might also be argued that European/UEFA championships are actually harder to accomplish than a WS

The biggest difference is the time period. Due to the way the Champion’s League works, the team plays the year following the standings so you end up with clubs like Chelsea that qualified based on winning it last year, but lost their best player to Galatasaray.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:07:16 +0000

Enough! Or too much.
…William Blake

William Blake!!??

William Blake!

William Blake!!??

William Blake!!!

By: indaburg

indaburg — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:15:03 +0000

President of your fan club? No, sadly, boys only.

By: buffalomafia

buffalomafia — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:01:18 +0000

Enough already

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:53:32 +0000

@cktai–
You make an interesting point. While I would argue that a La Liga BBVA championship is roughly the equivalent of an AL or NL pennant, it might also be argued that European/UEFA championships are actually harder to accomplish than a WS. However, I have to at least concede I overstepped with saying all major professional sports.

I remain steadfast that some individual accomplishment, even a career achievement, in a team sport is dwarfed by team accomplishments. Much as I do not like the Yankees, 27 WS championships is far more important than who hit the most home runs.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:50:02 +0000

Are you “President indaburg”?

By: indaburg

indaburg — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:49:38 +0000

Lions strikes me as a stickler for data and stubborn as all hell, but not a sexist. Asking the question in the first place makes it seem like you thought he might be. It’s not an invalid question, but on the interwebz without body language and tonal inflection, it’s easy to have our words misunderstood. (Hence, the need for a sarcasm font. Although, if I have to explain I was sarcastic, it was a failure on my part, but I digress. Blood sugar getting low, no breakfast yet, rambling thoughts ahead…) Plus Lions’ fan boys are a militant bunch. They’re worse than Bieber fans.

By: indaburg

indaburg — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:42:34 +0000

Lots and lots of ‘em. They send you letters with the letter “i” dotted with hearts and write fan fiction about you.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:17:24 +0000

I have “fan boys”? This is disturbing to me. Make them go away.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:17:18 +0000

Ok, why does everyone jump to that conclusion? I was not going ballistic on paper. Jesus, this is why I asked no follow up questions and just said “yea!”

By: indaburg

indaburg — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:07:45 +0000

It’s been awhile since I read the book in high school. Also, the spawtswriter in this case is forgetting that Hester was rewarded in the end.

By: indaburg

indaburg — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:04:22 +0000

The phasers were set to stun. Lions’ original statement did not imply that female literary figures can’t be compared to men. It’s just a bad analogy that the book’s circumstances didn’t support. I didn’t thumbs down, but that may be why lions’ fan boys did.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:58:12 +0000

That elicits visions of Kenneth Mars with his monocle, curled moustache and wooden arm from Young Frankenstein. ?"Ve haff circumstantial effidence uff your perfidy, oont ve do not neet anysink more than that."

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:49:41 +0000

Luke Scott, from what I’ve read, is a pretty likable guy and gets along easily with his teammates despite his Trailer Park Network talk show politics. And he hasn’t been nailed with, or even suspected of taking, any PEDs (and clearly he isn’t gulping vast quantities of algal DHA either).

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:24:57 +0000

She was interrogated about it and based on her surreptitious conversation with Dimmesdale it’s apparent that her decision not to reveal the name of Pearl’s father cost her some additional downtime. That, plus it would have undermined the psychological drama at the heart of the narrative – Chillingworth’s grinding process of torturing the truth out of Dimmesdale – to have had the elders force a confession out of her. I think Hawthorne the artist was more interested in exploring the nature of guilt and conscience than in mounting an overtly ideological assault on Puritan sexism and sanctimony.

By: bigleagues

bigleagues — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:24:07 +0000

Drop “moralists” in favor of “absolutists”.

You gotto fight mindless propaganda with mindful propaganda.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:59:07 +0000

Have you not read all the stories about what an asshole Bonds was in college, in the minors, and throughout his entire MLB career? Pretty much every team mate hated is arrogant ass. If they won’t say anything bad about him now that says more about them, than it does about Bonds.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:55:23 +0000

Did the community evince any interest in finding out why she was screwing? I don’t recall that particular witch hunt.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:34:14 +0000

Suuuuure.

By: pftbillsfan

pftbillsfan — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:47:43 +0000

He also fails to mention the flip side, that individuals face unfair scrutiny and labeling for looking bigger, producing more, an “anonymous” source saying that person used steroids.

By: cktai

cktai — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:21:39 +0000

I think Real Madrid would like to argue that last statistic actually.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:41:52 +0000

Kent was giving David Bell grief for a play Kent disagreed with in the previous inning. Bonds thought it had gone on enough and intervened.

http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Giants-now-battling-each-other-Bonds-Kent-2826698.php

By: misterchainbluelightning

misterchainbluelightning — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:03:24 +0000

When a teams best player is voted off his team by his teammates while trying to win a championship. You’re a douche.

When someone finds greenies in your locker and you point the finger at a teammate, you’re a douche

Bonds is guilty of both, one in Arizona and one in SF

By: stercuilus65

stercuilus65 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:00:18 +0000

“PED moralists” describe the apologists as well. It would be nice to dump their outrage as well.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:56:25 +0000

Um – to say that “the man” didn’t suffer is flat out wrong. Hester was punished by the spawrtsrighters…heh heh, sorry, I mean the elders. The good Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale wasn’t punished by the community, which didn’t know about his little indiscretion, which Hester and he kept quiet, but by his conscience. He was so consumed with guilt and misery that he stitched a scarlet letter not onto his shirt but directly into the flesh of his chest, over his heart. It was only discovered at his death. Read the book (or at least the Cliff’s Notes) to the end, folks.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:28:03 +0000

There is evidence that Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker were involved in betting on baseball, in a World Series in 1926.
http://espn.go.com/classic/s/2001/0730/1233060.html

The Black Sox Scandal was far worse in MLB’s eyes for the simple reason that it threatened the bottom line, and $ is all they care about in the long run. However…The Steroid Scandal, and Bonds’ part in it, adversely affected the bottom line not at all.

The most import statistical record in baseball is not who hit the most home runs across different eras. The most important record is 27–the most championships by any team in any major professional sport.

By: dprat

dprat — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:25:04 +0000

On pins and needles. Pray, do tell.

By: randygnyc

randygnyc — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:22:35 +0000

Kevin, the BS scandal happened during simpler times without the pervasiveness of today’s media. Those players were punished and to our knowledge, nothing of the sort was ever attempted again. On the other hand, Bonds broke the 2 most important statistical records in all of sports. Bonds cheated in an era where the teams, along with MLB, were complicit. His cheating went unpunished and to this day, the issues remain unresolved.