Thursday, January 29, 2009

SUPER SUNDAY AND BAY AREA BALOONHEAD by Tannen

Remember, if you want in on our Super Sunday contest and that certificate for 4 free green's fees for Emerald Valley, e-mail the following to steve@1320thescore.com
Prediction for the final score of the Super Bowl & total points scored by both teams at half time. Remember, the certificate expires the end of March.
The story today is that a former team mate of Barry Bonds, Bobby Estalella will provide damaging testimony to support the fed's case that BB knowingly took steroids then lied about it under oath. My question today is simple. What is the more ridiculous set of circumstances that arose from the Mitchell Report and congressional hearings?
1: Bonds used the "cream" and "clear" but didn't know they were illegal steroids.
2: Mark McGwire stating on Capitol Hill he's "not here to talk about the past".
3: Sammy Sosa forgetting how to speak English before the same committee
4: Roger Clemens on the claim by former teammate & friend Andy Pettite that they both used that "Andy MIS-REMEMBERED".
I find the entire quartet hysterical.
You?

2 comments:

Tony said...

Anyone who read Game of Shadows knows Bonds is guilty. I hope he winds up in Federal Prison sharing a cell with Roger Clemens.

PastaHead said...

Weavin' Steven, remember when there were fewer TV channels, and the Olympics were a big deal.

All sports fans watched the Olympics.

Voluminous important stories were written about institutionalized cheating in the Eastern Block. nations.

Athletes have known since the late 60's that Blood Doping and enhancing by the use of steroids and later growth hormones, were absolutely illegal, unethical and in no way, shape or form acceptable in competition.

For ANY of these cheating ball players to claim that using steroids was acceptable because they had not been explicitly banned by Major League Baseball is preposterous on it's face, and smacks of such hubris and arrogance that it infuriates me.

I love baseball, as I know you do. This cheating is intolerable, and truthfully I believe that anyone caught purposely cheating should be kicked out of baseball, and all of their records stricken from all record books.

As for those who say that Barry Bonds would have been a Hall Of Famer without using illegal drugs from '97 through at least 2004, or that the numbers compiled during the period of proven usage be wiped from the record, I say to you; ( I know you play golf ) If you play a good, clean first 9, but get caught cheating on the back 9, they throw the whole round out.

Same damn thing with baseball.

Your friend, Pastahead