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STEROIDS JUST PART OF WINNING ™ FOR SF GIANTS
Thanks, New York Times and Carl Steward of the Bay Area News Group for reporting on the ‘politically incorrect’ ( at least in San Francisco) story of Giants’ JoseGuillen and steroid use. Again, Giants management turned a blind eye to the known reports of his past steroid use in 2002 and 2005 , including being part of the Mitchell Report.
I guess it’s just a part of the Giants ‘Win At Any Cost’ philosophy. Especially after its history of having the most ‘roided players (per the Mitchell report) and the Kingpin himself, Barry Bonds – who threw out the first pitch in the World Series opener (and remains a hero among Giants fans . (Would it not be unbelievable if he became hitting coach? Maybe not so unbelievable for the Giants.)
The BIG thing here is that , once again, three years after steroids were perportedly out of the game, they’re back and could well be influencing results. Guillen had a number of key games in September with the Giants, incluiing a couple game-winning hits. This alone could have made the difference between the Giants getting into the playoffs and World Series, at the expense of the Padres, who were only out by two games.
For GM Sabean to get angry when a reporter brought up the subject of Guillen and steroids and for Giants president Baer to do his standard ‘ it’s baseball’s issue’ after well knowing of Guillen’s past steroid history, before acquiring him in August one just has to shake his or her head. San Francisco is one of the most tolerant and progressive cities but I don’t see the Giants as progressive. They’re continuing to hurt baseball 10 years later – and if they win the whole enchilada it will be a travesty. . Hello Bud Selig. Where are you? You’re telling us you’re happy with the 25% dip on viewership of this year’s world series.
Another interesting thing, during this renwed talk of steroids on the Giants, one of Bond’s Merry Men from the mid 2000s , visiting ATT over the weekend to watch the Giants, tells u that , yes, he was using steroids then. But we’re hardly surprised.
Who knows how many other Giants players may still be using roids in 2010. I really was about to give some Giants some credit for winning this thing NATURALLY, but now , with this report, it brings back those old suspicions again. Not to cast aspersions but you look at certain members of the Giants motley crew doing things they’ve never done before, like Jose Uribe hitting more homers (26) than he’s ever hit – at age 32 – and in San Francisco’s spacious , cold ballpark. Being friendly with Guillen. You gotta wonder. Or , turn a blind eye, like Giants ‘Baer, Sabean and company
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The 1919 Black Sox scandal, long regarded as the biggest ever scandal in baseball was done and gone with in relatively short order. Though one may never know it watching the 2014 World Series and related commentary, The Steroid / PED scandal rages on now more than 25 years since the ‘Bash Brothers’ and the 1989 Earthquake Series; it’s gone on so long now the names have changed from ‘Steroids’to ‘PEDs’ Today we are witnessing a GUARANTEED 10% of baseball players using ADDERALL, albeit legal, a Performance Enhancing Drug – not to mention many indicted players back in the game and, quite likely still using other PEDs of choice. Since Victor Conte’s insightful interviews -in which he says upwards of 50% of players are now using PEDs – have been removed from youtube and other sources we will take a look back at Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-wada Commonwealth interview while noting nothing much has changed since then… only the names and the type of PEDs.
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It could be the biggest scandal in all of baseball. Bigger than 1919 Black Sox. But, but only if anyone shows interest and does anything about it. And now, of course, there’s ADDERALL, the legal PED that MLB admits to allowing use of by 10% of baseball, going back to beyond when Giants’ ANDRES TORRES popularized it in 2010.Interesting choice of interviewers of Lance and Mark of ‘Game of Shadows’fame..Lurie is a noted sympathizer of steroid use, defends Bonds and Giants regularly as he broadcasts for them (NOW) but even then he was and is known as a liberal talk show host.
We remember back around 2002 when Barry Bonds actually told the media his intention to share ‘his secrets‘ with the team . But that was early and if people don’t pay attention or care about steroids they certainlly didn’t then. Well those secrets turned out to be steroids which took the Giants all the way to the World Series, which they lost to California Angels. Now Conte has told the world about the new testosterone and how anyone can improve his hitting, pitching, etc. with a small dose of this testosterone. And, the Giants haven’t missed a beatever since, it would appear. In fact, they probably would have been in the series last year, if not for a couple of key late-season injuries to key players. It’s most astounding to this writer how the Giants have continued bringing in known and suspected users now for 10 years or more and even more surprising that competing teams have barely questioned the Giants otherworldly stats, eg Sandoval’s six homers in the short 2012 post season and three off top pitcher Verlander IN ONE GAME (after nnly hitting 12 homers all year), 37-year-old Scutaro’s near .400 BA since joining the Giants (after hitting only .268 with Colorado and never before hitting over .299 in a long career and other similar , startling performances.
Associated Press 01/10/2009
Baseball authorized nearly 8 percent (now 10%) of its players to use drugs for ADHD last season, which allowed them to take otherwise banned stimulants. Five years later, MLB continues to allow players this particular PED, up from 2009. Add the current known 10% to a generally accepted goodly number of testosterone and other PEDs of choice and there is definitely a problem in baseball – perhaps as high as the 50% figure mentioned by Balco’s Victor Conte.
A total of 106 exemptions for banned drugs were given to major leaguers claiming attention deficit hyperactivity disorder from the end of the 2007 season until the end of the 2008 season, according to a report released Friday by the sport’s independent drug-testing administrator.
Dr. Gary Wadler, chairman of the committee that determines the banned-substances list for the World Anti-Doping Agency, recommended an independent panel be established to review TUE requests.
“I’ve been in private practice for a lot of years. I can count on one hand the number of individuals that have ADD,” he said. “To say that (7.86 percent) of major league baseball players have attention deficit disorder is crying out for an explanation.”
Rob Manfred, baseball’s executive vice president of labor relations, said it would be a mistake to compare ADHD in baseball with statistics for the general population. We ask ‘why would it be a mistake?
The National Institute of Mental Health estimates 3 percent to 5 percent of children have ADHD. Few adults have the problem, yet 10% of MLB (adult) players are allowed the performance enhancing effects of Adderall.
With ADDERALL, Torres went from a career .242 average to .270 in his big year with the Giants (2010), helping them to win the World Series, while on Adderall.
Giants JAKE PEAVY is well known for his hyper activity, anxiety and outbursts on the mound. ADDERALL IS A LEGAL PED designed to help those with ADD (attention deficit disorder). Andres Torres of the Giants was a poster for boy for it and the drug not only helped him stay calm but aided his batting average by about 50 points in helping the Giants to their 2010 World Series victory.
If there’s a candidate today for Adderall it would be JAKE PEAVY.As we know 10% of MLB players are currently using the (legal) PED and it wouldn’t surprise at all if Peavy is one of them. That would certainly account for, at least in part, his dramatic performance turnaround since joing the Giants in August. He went from a 1-9 record with a 4.76 ERA at Boston to a 5-4 record and 2.17 ERA with the Giants. We;re certainly not condoning Adderall, even by players who may need the ADD drug, since it also acts as PED, significantly raising a players ability and numbers. It’s very possible that after Torres’ success, a drug like Adderall could (have) become the drug of choice and pervasive on the Giants.
COCKROACHES, GM Sabean calls his Giants players cockroaches since you ‘can’t kill them. ‘We have called the Giants cockroaches for another reason. With the widespread use of PEDs in recent years, especially on the Giants (with 23 indicted players since Bonds and 5 KNOWN previously indicted users on the team since 2010) we say the drugs like spread from player to player like cockroaches, eg it was after Torres started using Adderall that the Giants late season heroics began. Pure coincidence? Doubtful.
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Please don’t give the Giants and especially Giants gm Brian ‘BS’ Sabean too much credit.
The Giants names keep changing but the results are the unfortunate same.
The Giants keep bringing in fringe players other teams are suspect of and getting the most of them by means the average sports fan wouldn’t expect or pay attention to. So we go into another World Series with the biggest baseball scandal that nobody talks about still very present and affecting the outcomes of games and livelihood of players.
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Depending on the timeline, Melky , Mota, Guillen or Bonds suggests the new kids try some ‘jints juice,’ which improves the hand-eye coordination, concentration, stroke and/or power, local Victor Conte tells them how they can inject up to 4x normal testosterone and not be caught by current MLB testing… ‘Hey watch us HIT!’ The weakling Giants who begin the season are suddenly leading the majors in hitting circa 2012!
So we see unnatural acts like Sandoval hitting three in one game and six in the postseason after only hitting 12 homers all year, Scutaro suddenly at age 37 hitting .360 for the Giants after hitting only
.271 with colorado in an easier park. Power or average goes up for other players, not to mentionvogelsong’s fastball goes from 90 during season to 94 post season, same for Lincecum…
Similar to 2010 when it was Ross and Torres brought doing it , along with others. Jints almost didit last year two but lost Posey and Willson at end of season, too late to get a replacement for them.
September 27, 2011, 2nd to the last game of the baseball season, I thought I’d take in my first game of the year at AT&T Park. . I thought it time to assess all the hype that we’ve been hearing all season about the season of sold out games and the great fans despite the San Francisco Giants falling short of an expected Playoff birth.
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
I’ve had a few issues with the Giants going back to Bonds and the Steroid Era , the trades – even going back to the Chub Feeney Day and Horace Stoneham Days and the whole way the team’s front office runs the team, perhaps more as a marketing tool, ie win now at any cost to win and get that revenue rather than sacrificing a year or two to build from within, basically firing Bill Newcomb, their sacrificial lamb, most responsible for getting them to the World Series and so forth. So, I went more with the sociologist in me rather than the baseball fan. Actually the real thing that drew me was the tribute to Tony Bennett on his 85th birthday.
I didn’t get near the stadium until the second inning. Frankly I wasn’t 100% sure I would even get a seat I f the game was really SOLD OUT like all the others. I just had a hunch though ,t wasn’t and I had a feeling the previous 160 weren’t all sold out. Sorry, but I don’t fully believe everything I hear ( or don’t hear) from the Giants. When I saw that parking was $30 I made every effort to find a free space, which I did – a borderline spot there was a driveway and a locked fence. Worht a chance. I figured a ticket couldn’t be much more than $30. I asked myself how do people afford this, especially during the economic crunch.
If that wassn’t bad enough, after walking a half mile to the stadium I found the ticket sales and yes, there were tickets available. First, I tried the automated ticket machine. Cheapest ticket was $125. Come on Giants . What is this? Then I went to one of the windows. The lady there quoted the same price. I asked her if that really was the lowest price and, without flinching, she said ‘yes.’ Not one to give up easily – remember, I was here as much for sociological reasons and music as for sports- I went to another nearby ticket window, expecting to hear the same price, but hoping for something different. Lo and behold, the man there quoted me $68 this time, guaranteeing me that this was the lowest price. ! Aha! Those Giants are really something.
Well, how’s about yet another try for Window No. 3?
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