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MLB had virtually nothing in place to test the players..So these guys used everything they could without worrying about being caught..It is much easier to get certain drugs then it is to get the designer stuff..

Your dead on when you say you have to be a dummy to get caught using the juice..They might as well left the syringe stuck in their arse..

I am just curious as to how this reporter only found out about A-Rod and nobody else?

MW: People leaked the info to her, I guess they wanted to out the biggest name of the bunch. Maybe to make sure that people knew that the man many were calling the “true” heir to Hank Aaron had feet of clay as well.

I thought it would have been good for someone to poke another hole in his story.

What do you think?

MW: His performance in 2001 wasn’t worse than it was in 2000, it was basically the same. And though his overall performance declined slightly from 2000 to 2001 to 2002, his home run numbers went from 41 to 52 to 57. So there’s your answer.

MW: They used to call me at 7:00 AM to go on the morning show after I’d gotten back from the ballpark at 1:00 AM the previous night, so I’m guessing I didn’t sound especially chipper.

Just doing lots of corresponding, reading, and Googling. After all, isn’t that how you came up with the Hank Aaron steroid connection at “Steroid Nation”.

MW: Yes, but I didn’t present it as a fact, like you did with Marte.

AL East

Yankees 97-65
Red Sox 96-66
Rays 89-73
Blue Jays 76-86
Orioles 74-88

The Yankees just absolutely dominated the offseason and it might just be enough to get them back into the position of being favorites. Of course to do this they will probably spend more money next year than the Rays and Red Sox combined. The Red Sox still have an excellent team, second in this division equals second best in baseball. Last year a prediction of 89 wins was a bold one for the Rays. This year, 89 wins and third place will be a bit of a disappointment. The Blue Jays, and even the Orioles, are not terrible teams.

The AL East is so tough that just playing half your games in this unbalanced schedule will knock a few games off your win total. And the AL is 5-10 games better than the NL. The Orioles and Jays are probably as good as projected 2nd and 3rd place teams Oakland and Minnesota, and any of those teams would be contenders in the National league.

If I ranked the teams in this division among all MLB teams, and everyone played the same schedule, here is the overall rank of the AL East teams:

1. Yankees
2. Red Sox
3. Rays
12. Blue Jays
15. Orioles

MW: That’s interesting. You think the Orioles are a middle-of-the-pack team? I don’t think they’re that good. Nor do I think that the Rays are the 3rd-best team in all of baseball. I’d probably have the Jays around 9th or so right now.

Well gee whiz guys I do believe I sensed a wee bit of sarcasm there..I guess MLB should just go back to the old way of testing players-Just ask them..

Just for your information..The NFL was the first major sport to test for steriods and although it isn’t perfect, it is certainly better then nothing..More then 100 players have failed these tests and in 2007 they have added more testing to the players..Of the major sports, its the most comprehensive..

The IOC has done a great job cleaning up the cheats…They may even go a little too far..

Most of the people that are so upset about the juicers are the fat guys sitting in front of their computers..These guys wouldn’t know what a weight looks like let alone know what it takes to stay in shape..I think most people are just jealous that these players look better and make more money then them..So they call them cheaters and feel good about themselves..

“Yea if I did that I could look like them too but I would rather sit on my butt and eat a hoagie”..

Most people have no idea what steriods actually does to your body and just assume you take this stuff and your muscles miraculously grow like toe fungus..

If you take these so called banned substances you still have to eat right and go to the gym..If you don’t work out or eat properly, the juice does absolutely nothing for you..It certainly won’t make you hit a baseball better but it may help your mental approach…

If you guys want to blame someone blame Bud Selig..The players used whatever they could to make themselves better athletes..

By the way..A 380ft. flyball is a 380ft. flyball..Inject that..

MW: You’re right – if you take steroids, you still have to work your tail off in the gym. There’s no “magic” pill. If you take ‘roids and don’t work out, then you turn into a Mo Vaughn-looking type. Still, though, I think you’re pretty naive if you think that the NFL’s or MLB’s drug-testing programs are actually doing a good job catching the cheats. I maintain that you’d have a to be pretty big dummy to ever fail a steroid test.

Is he going o the hall of fame?
Is he going to be signed by any general manager? Or is he going to be inactive (similar to Barry Bonds)?

I think they should do tests very often (for performance-enhancing drugs). How often are they tested?

MW: 1 – Probably. 2 – It depends. He’s going to be 42 when his current contract expires. Tests are random, it’s not like everyone is tested x times over the course of the season. One guy might be tested three times and another not at all.

That depends on how you define hit a baseball..

Sure it doesn’t help you make contact, or increase your hand eye… But does it not turn a 380 foot flyout to center into a 410 foot homerun?

MW: It very well might, we don’t know.

Mike People are upset because nothing has been done to improve a fourth place team and we have to watch another year of the Jay’s missing the playoffs. I don’t no what is so hard to understand about that. 2) J.P. should of been well aware that the Yankees would go after Burnett if he didn’t no that he should be fired for his stupidity and if he thought the Yankees would stop spending money once they landed him then he should be fired for his stupidity.

MW: I don’t think you should be calling anyone stupid – as a general rule, but especially given that you don’t know the difference between “no” and “know”. There’s nothing wrong with people being upset about the Jays’ lack of action this off-season, but they should direct their upsetedness at the proper target, rather than making up new reasons to dislike J.P.