Posted on 12/13/2007 7:18:21 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost
This just ran across the ESPN News scroll...
"A source close to a former Yankees strength trainer tells ESPN The Magazine's Shawn Assael that the trainer told Mitchell investigators he supplied Roger Clemens with steroids; information supplied by this trainer is in the Mitchell report. According to one industry official who spoke to [the] Bergen Record, 'several' prominent Yankees will be named in the Mitchell report."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Bill Curry was on "Mike & Mike" Wednesday morning. He said that he was probably 240 at his biggest when he snapped the ball for the Colts. And he only got that big when defenses started shifting their line over to put a man on the center's head. His best line was, "My job was to snap the ball & get runover as slowly as I could."
how far back did they go?
David Justice
maybe that explains the drama with Halle Berry
think this could be put on the sidebar since they are about to have the press conference?
The "public" will buy another 70 million tickets again next year. They care, but not that much.
I remember Bill Curry. Those Colts teams were good. Too bad about 1969 though. I still remember the clips of Jimmy Orr waving his hand in the End Zone, and Earl Morrall chucking it elsewhere (into the hands of a Jet)...
Funny line: "My job was to snap the ball & get runover as slowly as I could."
I could see diet and better training discipline (and the availability of better training tools) accounting for some portion of the size increase. If it was a 20lb increase - I could buy it.
But we're often seeing five offensive linemen take the field running around 320lbs each.
Probably an average 60 to 70 lb increase in the past 30 years.
This is freakish... And I think very unhealthy (for the folks putting on the weight -- and for the players that are getting crushed by these opponents).
MLB started getting relatively serious about performance enhancing drugs in the early ‘90s though they never enacted a ban on steroids until 2001 or 2002. Not too sure how far back the report goes but I would assume they investigated a good portion of the 1990s. (FYI: The McGwire/Sosa homerun race was in 1998)
Couldn't be! That guy bounced throws to first---from second!
Anyone listening to Mitchell’s Presser? He’s saying that current players when confronted with real evidence wouldn’t talk.
ANDY PETTITTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clamming up is always the best temporary defense.
How far back are they going? Early 1990’s?
They way Mitchell is talking at this press conference right now, you’d think they’d have the “goods” on even Babe Ruth!!! Geez.
“Scratching the surface”
If this is only “scratching the surface”, Sen. Mitchell, then why even publish the report today? Wait until you finish rounding up all these ball players and release the report when it is ready.
Hillary must be behind this.
Mitchell has done an outstanding collecting evidence. This is very thorough.
errr... “job”
All he'd find there is beer, hot dogs, and hooker sweat.
Do we have a final list without going through all 300 pages at work?
I did a quick search and Veritek’s name was NOT in the report itself, so the earlier list might be wrong.
Hard to believe, but the lifespan of an NFL lineman is something like 52. And the ones that live are all crippled up. Just from the game. But the NFL is the biggest moneymaker for the networks, so who cares? Steroids in baseball is the most overblown story in sports.
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