Archive for Steroids

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I was among the first to note that Jose Canseco, for all of his issues, has been right about most of what he has said about steroids, but this is a bridge too far: Jose Canseco believes he was the only player telling the whole truth about steroids. Who used and when. For how long. […]

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Richard Sandomir notes that the YES Network is trying, at least temporarily, to airbrush A-Rod out of Yankee history: To an extent, Rodriguez is fighting for redemption at YES, which Scott Boras, his agent, said in 2007 would see its worth rise with long-term aid from his client’s so-called “iconic value.” But recent actions taken […]

Miguel Tejada should have gone to law school: A recently released report from DOJ’s Inspector General found that Acting Assistant Attorney General Bradley Schlozman gave false testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee (both in his oral testimony and in written supplemental testimony) regarding his partisan misuse of his office and his violations of the Civil […]

Let’s dispense with the death by a thousand sportswriter cuts business and get right down to indicting A-Rod’s butt: Would the Reprobate, Alex R., please rise? Alex R., The Pontificate accuses, convicts, and sentences you for the following High Crimes: High Crime Count 1: You, the Greatest Player in the Game, took illegal steroids six […]

I probably need to put an end to all steroid-related snark on this blog, because I’m never going to be able to do it better than this.

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Lost in yesterday’s let’s-strike-Barry-from-the-record-book silliness is the fact that Bud Selig did make an official statement on Alex Rodriguez yesterday: On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am saddened by the revelations concerning Alex Rodriguez’s use of performance- enhancing substances,” Commissioner Selig said. “While Alex deserves credit for publicly confronting the issue, there is no […]

Last year, when Roger Clemens first filed suit, I noted that one of the reasons why defamation lawsuits are suckers’ games for the PR-conscious is that so often the outcome is determined by things other than whether the actual statements at issue are true or false. There are many exceptions and nuances to defamation law, […]