The Sad Saga of Sammy Sosa June 17, 2009
Posted by Fernando Gallo in General News, MLB.Tags: chicago cubs, MLB, sammy sosa, steroids
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Sosa in the final years of his once brilliant career. Photo from user shgmom56 on Flickr, her second straight on our blog. She's good.
By Jordan Guinn
In these troubled times of rampant unemployment, massive federal takeovers of banks and private industry and Iran’s sham of an election, it makes perfect sense for the New York Times to report that Sammy Sosa tested positive for steroids in 2003.
This is the most shocking revelation in the pages of the Times since it endorsed Barack Obama for president.
Since I am the resident steroid expert on our desperately under-manned staff, it falls on my shoulders to write something on the Times‘ earth-shattering revelation regarding Sosa’s use of performance-enhancing drugs. (more…)
A-Rod, A-Rod, A-Rod. You aren’t even trying to make my job difficult, are you? April 30, 2009
Posted by Fernando Gallo in General News, MLB.Tags: a-rod, alex rodriguez, new york yankees, selena roberts, sports illustrated, steroids
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NOTE: This is the first post by my partner in crime, Jordan Guinn. It is published under my name due to current technical difficulties. – F.G.
Once again, Alex Rodriguez has found himself embroiled in another controversy. Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts has written a book on the troubled Yankee third basemen that will drop on May 4. The book contains allegations that Rodriguez has been juicing since high school, tipped pitches while playing in Texas to opposing players during blowouts in the hopes of receiving the same treatment and was affectionately nicknamed “Bitch Tits” by his fellow Yankee teammates.
Roberts even talks about Rodriguez with the self-proclaimed “Godfather of Steroids,” Jose Canseco. Canseco says he believes Rodriguez was probably doing steroids since high school because Rodriguez was nearly able to bench press the same amount as him when he was 18. (more…)
Unsportsmanlike Conduct 