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  • Hyde: Is Stanton the legit HR king if he hits 62? Even he wonders | Commentary

    08/18/2017 12:16:26 PM PDT · by EveningStar · 14 replies
    South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | August 16, 2017 | Dave Hyde
    If I’m Giancarlo Stanton, I’d feel conflicted about the Steroid Era, too. I’d think Roger Maris’ 61 home runs in a season is the legitimate record, too. “Considering some things, I do,’’ he said Wednesday. If I’m Stanton, I’d note the only three players to hit more than 61 home runs – Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa – had more performance-enhancing drugs in them than an East German swim team. “But at the same time it doesn’t matter,’’ Stanton said. “The record is the record. But, personally, I do [think 61 is the record]... If PED users like...
  • Caption these photos

    11/12/2009 9:59:32 AM PST · by Lucky9teen · 94 replies · 2,769+ views
    This undated photo courtesy of the Food Network shows chef Bobby Flay, from left, and White House chef Cristeta Comerford, Alton Brown, first lady Michelle Obama, chef Mario Batali and chef Emeril Lagasse. An episode of 'Iron Chef America' will be taped at the White House pitting Flay and Comerford against Batali and Lagasse. The episode aris Jan. 3, 2010. Condoms are displayed at an international "family-planning" expo in Beijing in April 2009. A Chinese collector of Olympic memorabilia will put some of his mementos on the auction block later this month, including a batch of 5,000 condoms given to...
  • My Ode to Disgrace Former Sports Heroes

    06/19/2009 8:04:25 PM PDT · by fiscon1 · 4 replies · 404+ views
    The Provocateur ^ | 06/19/2009 | Mike Volpe
    When I heard that it was reported that Sammy Sosa had failed a drug test in 2003, I thought it was anti climactic. After all, it was by now common knowledge that Sosa had in fact been cheating for years. Sammy Sosa was my favorite baseball player starting in the mid 1990's. I often defended him against charges that he wasn't clutch as well as a cheater. Finally, when he was traded to the Baltimore Orioles and suddenly saw his production get cut by about 60% even I couldn't be blind to the obvious. So, it had been years since...
  • Is it time to give the MLB homerun record back to Roger Maris? Sign the petition...

    06/20/2006 4:06:53 AM PDT · by ajolympian2004 · 1 replies · 313+ views
    A local sports radio station here in Denver mentioned this recently - Give it back to Maris Help restore the MLB homerun record to the rightful owner http://www.giveitbacktomaris.com/This website is designed for the sole purpose of setting the Major League Baseball Single Season Home Run Record straight. With the acknowledgement of an era of baseball where the legitimacy of every record is in doubt, we believe there is only one solution to the ongoing steroid controversy and mistrust that not only surrounds the game but has created doubt in the game for the last 16 years. That solution is for...
  • Two down, one left in steroid era

    02/17/2006 10:44:11 AM PST · by JZelle · 7 replies · 360+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 2-17-08 | TOM KNOTT
    Sammy Sosa has turned down the modest offer of the Nationals, which is just as well. There is a noticeable stench emanating from his 588 career home runs, just as there is with the numbers of Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire. The three are forever linked because of their eclipsing Roger Maris, who lost several heads' worth of hair because of the stress associated with his pursuit of Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. Or so it goes with each retelling. We only can imagine the potential physical damage to the three hulks who transformed their upper bodies with suspicious...
  • McGwire Tells Panel He Won't Name Names

    03/17/2005 12:17:34 PM PST · by Cagey · 375 replies · 6,020+ views
    AP ^ | 3-17-2005 | HOWARD FENDRICH and RONALD BLUM
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired slugger Mark McGwire Thursday told a congressional panel investigating drugs in baseball that he would not "participate in naming names" of players who used steroids. McGwire did not say in his opening statement to the House Government Reform Committee whether he used steroids. Two current players, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, said they never used steroids. That duo and McGwire were accused of using performance-enhancing drugs by Jose Canseco in a best-selling book that helped prompt the hearing. In a tense scene, Canseco sat at the same table as the other players as he told the...
  • Steroid probe may make for longest season - (to tell or not to tell, before Congress?)

    03/15/2005 9:40:07 PM PST · by freeholland · 2 replies · 338+ views
    JEWISH WORLD REVIEW.COM ^ | MARCH 15, 2005 | MICHAEL GOODWIN
    The congressional hearings on steroids have the potential to be one of the most important events in baseball's long history. More important than any lockout or union strike. More important than the 1980s' epidemic of cokehead players. You might have to go all the way back to the Black Sox scandal to find an event of equal meaning. The reason is simple: The use of steroids, like the fixing of the 1919 World Series, goes directly to the integrity of baseball. Any time there is doubt about the final results, about wins and losses, batting averages and home runs, every...
  • Company Making Fake Urine for Research

    09/13/2004 9:34:58 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 24 replies · 746+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Mon, Sep 13, 2004 | DAVID TWIDDY
    Synthetic urine, which sounds like something more likely to generate snickers than sales, is turning into a small success for a Kansas company. Dyna-Tek Industries, a company bought by Kevin Dyches and his wife, Sandra, five years ago, has developed synthetic urine for the research industry. One of their first customers is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites), which made a big purchase this summer and has hinted it could be a major buyer long into the future. Other research institutions and laboratories are also looking into Dyna-Tek's product, called Surine. "We have been very...
  • Balco Co. and Steroids, Professional Athletes doping up

    02/14/2004 7:01:33 PM PST · by Irreverent Doyen · 2 replies · 994+ views
    SI.com ^ | February 13, 2004, updated 2/14/2004 | Tim Layden
    <p>Hanging from the BALCO-ny Drug sting puts superstars' reputations at risk, but who really cares?</p>
  • Sammy Sosa, Victim?

    08/30/2003 1:20:29 PM PDT · by mrustow · 89 replies · 501+ views
    Middle American News/A Different Drummer ^ | 31 August 2003 | Nicholas Stix
    On June 3, Chicago Cubs superstar Sammy Sosa hit a routine ground-out that had extraordinary consequences. His bat broke, exposing an illegal, cork-filled center. "Corking" makes a bat lighter, so that a hitter can swing it faster. Bat speed generates power, and Sosa, with 505 career home runs and a record three seasons with 60 or more homers, was assumed to be a premier power hitter. When previous sluggers were caught doctoring their bats, they were publicly humiliated and suspended. In the most recent incident, in 1994, Cleveland Indian Albert Belle was suspended for eight games. But things have gone...
  • Sammy, Martha, Jayson and Bill said it wasn't so

    06/07/2003 11:20:40 AM PDT · by RAT Patrol · 10 replies · 133+ views
    The Indianapolis Star ^ | May 7, 2003 | James Patterson
    <p>The U.S. military is still getting action in Iraq and Afghanistan, but front-page news is no longer about them; it's about us.</p> <p>From Martha Stewart to Sammy Sosa to Jayson Blair to Bill Clinton, quicker than you can say WMD, conversations have turned from who killed Laci Peterson to whether we can believe what anyone says anymore.</p>
  • Pedro: Racist press bashes Sosa

    06/06/2003 9:51:36 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 71 replies · 362+ views
    Boston Herald ^ | Friday, June 6, 2003 | Michael Silverman
    Racial bias in the press has blown out of proportion the saga of Sammy Sosa and his corked bat, Pedro Martinez said yesterday in defense of his fellow Dominican. ``We may be Latin, a minority, but we are not dumb. We are not dumb, we see everything that happens,'' said an agitated Martinez during an extended venting session in the visitors' clubhouse at PNC Park before last night's Red Sox-Pirates game. The intense media coverage of the Sosa episode also touched another nerve with Martinez, who said he also has felt the sting of racial bias from the media. When...
  • Sammy Sosa Suspended for 8 Games; Will Appeal

    06/06/2003 9:40:16 AM PDT · by demlosers · 102 replies · 302+ views
    WLS Newstalk 890 ^ | 6 June 2003
    He's still going to play against the NY Yankees.
  • Face it: Baseball cheating far from fleeting (CORK ALERT)

    06/05/2003 6:18:58 PM PDT · by Chi-townChief · 42 replies · 1,434+ views
    Sun-Times ^ | June 5, 2003 | GREG COUCH SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
    There was a baseball play a few years ago that didn't start with a windup and a pitch, but instead with Dave Bresnahan going to the grocery store to buy some potatoes. He went home, peeled a few of them down to just smaller than a baseball and drew laces onto them with a red pen. Bresnahan, a catcher hitting .149 for the Class AA Williams-port Bills, then put a potato in a spare glove in the dugout and waited for his moment. It came with two out in the fifth inning and a runner on third. He told the...
  • Move over Sosa - the Dominican Rep. has a new Star

    06/05/2003 5:32:51 AM PDT · by jriemer · 15 replies · 311+ views
    Reuters ^ | 6/4/03 | Manuel Jimenez
    Dominican Republic hails its first Miss Universe SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - Newly crowned Miss Universe (news - web sites) Amelia Vega of the Dominican Republic was the toast of her Caribbean nation on Wednesday, with President Hipolito Mejia leading the cheers for the 18-year-old beauty. Vega, a 6-foot high school student and daughter of a former Miss Dominican Republic, won the pageant on Tuesday in Panama City. "I followed all of this incredible event, which is a great plus for the Dominican Republic," Mejia told reporters on Wednesday. "She's beautiful and intelligent and a national pride," Mejia...
  • Chicagoans Heap Scorn on Sosa for Corking Bat

    06/04/2003 1:47:31 PM PDT · by Land_of_Lincoln_John · 82 replies · 295+ views
    Reuters, via Yahoo! ^ | June 4, 2003 | Andrew Stern
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Baseball slugger Sammy Sosa's love affair with his fans splintered like his corked bat as former loyalists wondered if the effervescent outfielder's apology -- and his brawn -- were as phony as his stick. "It's not just the cork in his bats, it's the steroids in his veins," Ryan Snitkowsky, a doctor sitting outside the firehouse across from storied Wrigley Field, home of Sosa's Chicago Cubs (news), said on Wednesday. "It throws a question mark over all those home runs," pitched in firefighter Lee Yankowski. Said fellow firefighter Neal Johnson: "The jury's still out -- what's going...
  • Sosa ejected for illegal bat

    06/03/2003 6:27:29 PM PDT · by michigander · 49 replies · 563+ views
    Sports Network ^ | 06/03/03
    Sosa ejected for illegal bat Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa was ejected from Tuesday's game against Tampa Bay for using an illegal bat. With Mark Grudzielanek at third and Alex Gonzalez at second with one out in the bottom of the first inning, Sosa came to bat against Devil Rays starter Jeremi Gonzalez. Sosa broke his bat on a grounder and was thrown out at first, as Grudzielanek hustled home to apparently give the Cubs a 1-0 lead. Part of the shattered bat was then picked up by home plate umpire Tim McClelland. He then...
  • Sammy Sosa ejected for using cork in his bat

    06/03/2003 5:38:04 PM PDT · by BigMacGOP · 292 replies · 784+ views
    6/3/03 | WGN Radio
    Sammy Sosa was ejected in the bottom of the first inning of tonight's Cubs/Devil Rays game after the umpire found cork in his broken bat.
  • Key to Getting in Hall of Fame? Hitting 500 Balls out of the Park

    05/16/2003 8:03:13 AM PDT · by WaveThatFlag · 190 replies · 851+ views
    THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ^ | Friday, May 16, 2003 | ALLEN ST. JOHN
    <p>Heard the one about the motorist lost in upstate New York? He pulls into a gas station and asks the attendant, "How do you get to Cooperstown?"</p> <p>"Hit 500 homers," the pump jockey said, not missing a beat.</p> <p>It's one of baseball's most sacred numbers and, for the moment at least, it's a sure ticket to the Hall of Fame. But now that Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmiero have joined the 500-homer club, let's take a closer look at who else is aiming for it.</p>