Sammy's Retiring

[Kid]

They should burn him in effigy.

[Lance]

<!--quoteo(post=42371:date=Jun 5 2009, 10:40 PM:name=Kid)-->QUOTE (Kid @ Jun 5 2009, 10:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->They should burn him in effigy.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


But before that, let's kill all the lawyers.

[veryzer]

<!--quoteo(post=42370:date=Jun 5 2009, 09:37 PM:name=Lance)-->QUOTE (Lance @ Jun 5 2009, 09:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=42367:date=Jun 5 2009, 10:34 PM:name=veryzer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (veryzer @ Jun 5 2009, 10:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->love me some sammy. i like the idea of bringing him back to retire. won't happen, but i like it.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


Amen, Tom. I love you for your Sammy love. He loved to play about as much as Ernie did, and that's saying something.
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and i also love you for the love of me loving sammy.

[biggz]

Sosa Tested Positive in 2003

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Sammy Sosa, who joined with Mark McGwire in 1998 in a celebrated pursuit of baseball’s single-season home run record, is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year.

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The 2003 positive test could also create legal troubles for Sosa because he testified under oath before Congress at a public hearing in 2005 that he had “never taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs.”

The 2003 test that ensnared Sosa was the first such test conducted by Major League Baseball. Under guidelines agreed upon with the players union, the test results were to remain anonymous but would lead to testing with penalties the next year if more than 5 percent of the results were positive.

That is indeed what occurred. But for reasons never made completely clear, the test results were not destroyed by the players union and the 104 positives were subsequently seized by federal agents on the West Coast investigating matters related to the distribution of drugs to athletes.

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The lawyers who had knowledge of Sosa’s inclusion on the 2003 list did not know the substance for which Sosa tested positive. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they did not want to be identified as discussing material that is sealed by a court order.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Can't say I'm shocked, but damn.

EDIT: Link fail.

[Ronsantorocks]

I miss Sammy

[PcB]

I really hope nobody is shocked by this news.

[Destined]

I thought he just lifted weights. I'm shocked.

[PcB]

I'm waiting for a CP or veryzer post on this, it should be interesting.

[rok]

I'm not gonna lose any sleep over this.

[Jody]

He's a gladiator and gladiators do what they have to do in order to gladiate.

[Butcher]

<!--sizeo:7--><!--/sizeo-->LIES!<!--sizec--><!--/sizec-->

[veryzer]

it's obvious he's being set up.

[rok]

Whatever he took, I'm sure it was perfectly legal, in the Dominican.

[Ronsantorocks]

Hey he no speak English

[sleepyhead]

My enemic