BANNED.

[Davey Rootbeer]

...for 10 games.

Alex Sanchez (outfielder: Tampa bay) was the first this season to get the hammer, after a test (that was taken back when he was a member of the Tigers, mind..) positive for use of sterioids.

'course, he's vehemently denying it, and insisting he's never taken steriods, it might have been some kind of milkshake or suppliment that gave him a "false positive".

This kinda suprised me a bit that baseball's actually going out and levying punishments so early after the hearings. and sanchez, if you know anything about baseball, is a speed dæmon, not a power hitter...and happens to be on my rotisserite league team.

so, i'm fucked for an outfielder spot for a week or two. oh yeah, and he's losing $30,000 of his salary (suspended without pay for 10 days). $30,000 is..what, about the average amount a worker in america makes in one year nowadays?

But, is this just an example to scare players "straight"? from what it looks like to me, the day before the season starts, they could have suspended one of the big boys, like Sosa (don't tell me he hasn't taken steriods. I remeber sosa coming up with the rangers and chisox in the early 90's, and he was NOTHING like he is today). but they chose to suspend a (still high-calibre, but not exactly famous) player.


so, is it it a ban to warn people that they'll enforce rules? or is it fo shizzle?









_{i demand a baseball discussion subforum.}

[implode]

<small>baseball and porn!</small>

totally a scare tactic. they wanted to prove their point that YES, things are being done, but they didn't want to start with a huge name like manny or sheffield or anything. i wouldn't be surprised if a few more recognizable players tested positive and got slapped on the wrist and warned by mr. selig himself - that man is still under the impression that "I KNOW WHAT FANS WANT *SSSLURP* AND WHAT THE FANS WANT, IS HOMERS!!!!!" but now he's being forced into a scenario where he needs to show mock interest is this steroid fiasco, and alex sanchez sounds like just the guy to set the first example. that'll teach that fucker to drink a milkshake before practice.

<small>hey, nice game last night. :( i came in for the 8th, just in time to catch matsui take the condom off.</small>

[Davey Rootbeer]

WIth all this, no wonder Bonds is spooked.

Thing is, he never really WAS the most lovable player on the face of the earth. people forget what he was in the 80's and early 90's, and remeber only the recent Bondsinator. He basically said, to the media, at the beginning of spring training, "i don't care what you guys do, I know you're not 'out to get me', and you're just doing your job. I'm all coo' wid'at.". 2 months and a knee operation later... "FUCK YOU MEDIA ASSHOLES YOU MADE MY KID CRY AND YOU WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE I'M GONNA QUIT BECAUSE YOU ALL SUCK."

GEE. I wonder why the media SURROUNDS him like that. maybe it's because he's sending balls flying at an astronomical rate, and In between the walks, bench-pressing automobiles parked outside Candlestick. or 3com. or whatever the hell they call it now. i'm going to call it Candlestick, because i WANT to. Just be happy i'm not still calling it the Polo Grounds.

He should go to play in japan for a while, and take a lesson on dealing with the press fron Ichiro and Matsui. If you think the media HERE is intense...



_{It was bittersweet. I had millar, meuller, and ramirez on my team, too, and all i got out of them was 2 walks and a run scored.}

[Davey Rootbeer]

<sub>and holy crap. Pedro has 12 strikeouts in only 5 innings.

I could get used to rooting for him. go mets. </sub>

[Vile]

<i> *disgust*</i>

[Davey Rootbeer]

aaand they blew it again. Up 6-4 in the bottom of the 9th, Looper gives up a homerun.

It's going to be a long season...

[implode]

hahahaha. we all laughed our asses off, you know.

and when we stopped, we were 0-2. :meh:

*disgust* aw, go rescue a wounded badger.

[Davey Rootbeer]

well, hey, look at that. Sanchez decided NOT to appeal his suspension, even though he argued vehemently at the onset that he never took no illegal substances.

All the more reason to believe something's going on there.


so, he's just going to shut up, be a good little boy, and get paid under the table for "serving the game"....





and then 10 years later, write a tell-all Expose book about how he was victimized by the system and served as a disposable decoy.