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FEDS SEIZE Baseball Drug Test Results
SI.com (Sports Illustrated) ^
| April 9. 2004
| Associated Press
Posted on 04/10/2004 10:41:38 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:04:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Federal authorities probing an alleged steroid distribution ring have seized the results and samples of drug tests on selected major league baseball players from a drug-testing lab, a spokesman for the lab said Friday.
Internal Revenue Service agents served a search warrant to obtain "documentation and specimens" from a Quest Diagnostics lab in Las Vegas, Quest spokesman Gary Samuels said.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mlb
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To: Lancey Howard
But, the IRS is doing this under a conservative administration. Does this mean the conservatives we elected have no control over the bloated Federal beauracracy?
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posted on
04/10/2004 11:55:01 AM PDT
by
dljordan
To: dljordan; bvw
Please look at reply #38 of this thread.
42
posted on
04/10/2004 11:57:09 AM PDT
by
Dane
To: Dane
That's a reasonbale guess. The whole thing sounds screwball.
43
posted on
04/10/2004 12:06:48 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: Lancey Howard
because MLB is going to be hit with a fraud lawsuit....
the unions thought Bush was kidding in his State of the Union address...
To: dljordan
For awhile, I thought that our Republican Congress did a nice job reigning in the IRS by choking it, ie., reducing funding to basic maintenance levels. But now the IRS is talkng about more "random audits" etc. It's a disgrace. I look at government and I just don't see anybody on my side.
To: Dane
Your reply has nothing to do with what I posted, or what I was responding to.
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posted on
04/10/2004 12:17:17 PM PDT
by
sharktrager
(Kerry is like that or so a crack sausage)
To: commish
Bonds, Sheffield, Giambi, Bagwell, Vladimer Guerrero, ARod, Everett, Juan Gonzales would probably be a good starting point. Is Anderson Tiger Wood's trainer too?
To: Lancey Howard
they announced they were going to audit more small businesses....in particular ones that claim small or no profit year after year...of course, I dont believe they ever hired the new agents to do this.
To: BurbankKarl; Lancey Howard
This is just another practical example of the necessity of T. Roosevelt style republicanism, over extreme libertarianism.
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posted on
04/10/2004 1:16:12 PM PDT
by
unspun
(The uncontextualized life is not worth living. | I'm not "Unspun w/ AnnaZ" but I appreciate.)
To: unspun
Agreed.
To: Lancey Howard
Asterisk McGwire, too. He's another one who, like Bonds, was a tall skinny rookie and by the end of his career was a hulking behemoth. You mean when he hit 49 home runs his rookie year? "Tall skinny rookie" had a little power back then.
The amount of ignorance and willingness to condemn without proof on baseball threads is sickening. No one seems to care about legal vs. illegal, proven guilt vs. insinuation.
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posted on
04/10/2004 1:49:22 PM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
(Got some dirt on my shoulder -- could you brush it off for me?)
To: Destro
The Feds have better things to do, no? Apperently not. There are over 100,000 - and by some counts more than 200,000 - armed federal agents of various types. Idle hands, the devil's workshop.
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posted on
04/10/2004 3:05:55 PM PDT
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
To: Destro
The Feds have better things to do, no? Apperently not. There are over 100,000 - and by some counts more than 200,000 - armed federal agents of various types. Idle hands, the devil's workshop.
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posted on
04/10/2004 3:08:46 PM PDT
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
To: commish
OK let's start the speculation of who is on the list.
Players to be named later.
To: JohnnyZ
And the number of people who willing to leap to conclusions is sickening as well. Legal vs. illegal, and proven vs. insinuations has nothing to do with it. McGwire admitted taking legal steroids.
"You mean when he hit 49 home runs his rookie year? "Tall skinny rookie" had a little power back then."
Yeah, and Willie Mays was what, 175 lbs? And Maris was a rail. So what? Those guys did it without steroids, legal or illegal.
To: Lancey Howard
All of your urine samples are belong to us !!!!!!!!
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posted on
04/10/2004 6:05:57 PM PDT
by
festus
To: Lancey Howard
The IRS is endearing itself to the American public....
Seriously, You'd think federal $$$$'s could be spent on little things, LIKE SECURING OUR FRICKIN' BORDERS, as opposed to going after a few ballplayers who use steroids. Of course, making sure our National Pastime is safe and wholesome is more important than making sure our national security is safe and wholesome.
Hey,IRS morons, get your heads out of your rectums and start going after the organizations that launder money for terrorists. When our nation is safe from Islam-o-nazis then you can focus on sniffing bottles of piss....
To: Dane
You knee jerk Libertarian drug lovers are a hoot, IMO, with your simplistic arguements. I am anything but a libertarian, and I hate drugs in all their forms. This was a joke. I knew Mickey Mantle for they party guy he was. Went to school with his brothers. Mickey's drinking exploits at Bille Mendenhall's Little hole in the wall dive were well known to all the locals.
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posted on
04/11/2004 8:50:46 AM PDT
by
itsahoot
(The lesser of two evils, is evil still...Alan Keyes)
To: Lancey Howard
Yeah, and Willie Mays was what, 175 lbs? And Maris was a rail. So what? Those guys did it without steroids, legal or illegal. You said that McGwire started as a tall skinny rookie whose career results should be asterisked because he bulked up later on.
But McGwire had tremendous power as a rookie, as I pointed out. He was already a great power hitter.
And you have blatantly ignored that point, which was my response to your McGwire comment, and started in talking about how Willie Mays was skinny.
Legal vs. illegal, and proven vs. insinuations has nothing to do with it.
It sure as hell does, and you, among others on these threads, as I said before, should maybe think for once that there is both wheat and chaff, and they should be sifted.
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posted on
04/11/2004 5:22:28 PM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
(Got some dirt on my shoulder -- could you brush it off for me?)
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