06-16-2009, 11:00 PM
<!--quoteo(post=44605:date=Jun 16 2009, 09:49 PM:name=savant)-->QUOTE (savant @ Jun 16 2009, 09:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=44601:date=Jun 16 2009, 09:26 PM:name=chitownwinninitall)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (chitownwinninitall @ Jun 16 2009, 09:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I couldn't be less shocked by this news. Anyone who is surprised by this has had their head in the sand for the last decade. I hate to say it but I loved watching sammy too, but I was 12 during that 98 season. When I look back now and read all of the reports and specifically these new stories I feel like a chump, the fact I was taken in and actually cheered for this cheater makes me sick. If some of you can look past it and just remember the good times more power to you, but It makes my skin crawl to know that I looked up to and respected a complete fraud, a guy who cheated his way to the top.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Stop being so melodramatic. Everyone was doing it, and Sammy just happened to be one of the best at doing it. He was better than Ken Caminti, and Jeff Bagwell, and Craig Bigio, and Mark Macgwire, and Albert Pujols, and Jim Edmonds, and Scott Rolen, and Manny Ramirez. It was the era, and mlb pretty much turned a blind eye to the entire thing.
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Okay so everyone is breaking the rules so that makes it okay? What type of logic is that. Everyone breaks the speed limit so why give out tickets. I'm sorry but when a guy I cheered for is found to be a cheater it pisses me off even if he was the best cheater of his generation.
And I do want to say I am way more angry with MLB and the Players Union over this whole steroids stuff than I am with any player. They could have ended it before it ever started if they really wanted to and cared more about the integrity of their game and the health of their players than they did profit.
Stop being so melodramatic. Everyone was doing it, and Sammy just happened to be one of the best at doing it. He was better than Ken Caminti, and Jeff Bagwell, and Craig Bigio, and Mark Macgwire, and Albert Pujols, and Jim Edmonds, and Scott Rolen, and Manny Ramirez. It was the era, and mlb pretty much turned a blind eye to the entire thing.
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Okay so everyone is breaking the rules so that makes it okay? What type of logic is that. Everyone breaks the speed limit so why give out tickets. I'm sorry but when a guy I cheered for is found to be a cheater it pisses me off even if he was the best cheater of his generation.
And I do want to say I am way more angry with MLB and the Players Union over this whole steroids stuff than I am with any player. They could have ended it before it ever started if they really wanted to and cared more about the integrity of their game and the health of their players than they did profit.