I wasn’t surprised. The owners are usually defeating the players these days and Loretta would have been more successful, in my opinion, if he had asked for 3.5 mill, which is the amount he made last year after adding in bonuses.
No other real news. Players are trickling in to spring training camp. Tejada says he’s fine and not worried. Which doesn’t surprise me one bit – no one cares that he used roids or lied about it. People only care about the super-duper stars who use. Tal Smith was dead right about that, not that he’d have the stones to come out and say so. You notice that the local and national media aren’t bothering to waste air/ink on Tejada because he isn’t that good and has no chance of reaching the Hall and won’t even come close to breaking The Sacred Home Run Record.
Let’s see, what else? Hunter Pence wasn’t watching where he was going and ran through a plate glass window, cutting himself in a few places. Detectives say alcohol wasn’t involved. I guess this is his admission to the “hard-nosed” school of Aaron Rowand-ism. I guess it is a good thing if you are a ball player to not watch where the heck you are going.
What else?
Oh yeah – Jon Heyman, a good friend of Brian McNamee says that Clemens caused Pettitte all this trouble by just not shutting up and agreeing with everything that McNamee accused him of and now it is all Roger’s fault that The NY Daily News had to go and find out that Andy got his HGH from his father in 2004 and so Andy’s father got his own self in the paper.
I’m getting tired of hearing how using a chemical BEFORE it was banned is “cheating” and I’m getting especially tired of hearing how HGH is a performance enhancer. I would like to see even ONE piece of scientific evidence that in normal healthy young men that HGH strengthens ANYTHING except for the bony growth of the chin, hands and feet.
Me, I would like to see the remainder of the media give the exact same amount of hellfire to every single steroid user that they have given to McGwire, Bonds and Clemens. Of course, it will never happen. I know better.
Tags: Houston Astros, MLB
It doesn’t have to make you stronger to be performance enhancing. If you heal faster and take the field quicker thats about as big an enhancement as one can get.
‘ I would like to see the remainder of the media give the exact same amount of hellfire to every single steroid user that they have given to McGwire, Bonds and Clemens’
So it’s the media’s fault now that these men’s egos are so large they cannot admit errors in judgement?
I agree with DC. The reason that Pettitte is forgiven while Clemens is raked over the coals of public opinion is precisely because Pettitte admitted it, while Clemens didn’t, despite all evidence (and the evidence is certainly mounting, isn’t it).
It’s only a bigger issue in the media when Roger Clemens is involved rather than, say, Paul Byrd, because Clemens is a huge figure in baseball history, and thus the story is bigger. Bigger story = more viewers/readers, more viewers/readers = more profit. So I also don’t think it’s quite fair or accurate to say that the media is “singling out” players like Bonds and Clemens.
But anyway, did you hear that the ‘Stros bagged Shawn Chacon today to shore up their shoddy rotation? I know what you’re all thinking … NOW we can start putting money aside for those incredibly expensive PLAYOFF TICKETS!
DC,
there is exactly zero evidence that taking shots of HGH make you heal faster. if you are a healthy young adult male that is.
and even if it DID, why is that something bad? who complains if guys use DMSO? who complains if they get cortisone? i don’t see any difference. as for the whole “no prescription” thing, yeah, so he didn’t have no prescription. big deal. it’s no different than using your spouse’s allergy pill or something similar – i mean legally.
i don’t see how this is an “error in judgement.” – using snake oil, that is. BEFORE it was banned by mlb.
jdollas,
i want to see SOME evidence that roger shot roids besides mcnamee’s sayso.
shawn SEZ he chose the astros because he wanted a team with a good chance to win. after i finsihed choking on the coffee i was drinking when i read that, i started writing up the career of shawn chacon, the guy who gave up roy’s only career homer.
sigh
i’ll have it up in a day or so.
i’ve got my hands full with baby dogs, big dogs, kids, brother, parents, gf…..
Looks like Loretta took some bad advice on how much he was asking for; he hasn’t been worth his asking price in 4 years. And if a player’s salary can be reduced by up to 20%, the 2.75 million was the more reasonable figure. What were they thinking”?