NY Times: Sosa said to test positive in 2003

[BYH]

Bear ****s in woods, film at 11.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/31392912/ns/sports-baseball/

 

[didntdoit19]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/sports/baseball/17doping.html

I'm just shocked and appalled. Shocked, I tell ya. Shocked.

 

[Boom_70]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

This is kind of like the end of the Dirty Dozen. I really wanted Jefferson to make it. I now really want Frank Thomas and Ken Griffey to make it. Pujols not so much.

 

[WaylonJennings]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

I imagine the Peavy thread destroys my credibility here, but ... I suspect you're going to be waiting a long, long time for Frank Thomas to join the club.

 

[Boom_70]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

I imagine the Peavy thread destroys my credibility here, but ... I suspect you're going to be waiting a long, long time for Frank Thomas to join the club.

What Peavy thread? Did he take Steroids?

 

[StormSurge]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

I imagine the Peavy thread destroys my credibility here, but ... I suspect you're going to be waiting a long, long time for Frank Thomas to join the club.

What Peavy thread? Did he take Steroids?

The one where Waylon said Peavy was a wuss because he had blocked a trade to the ChiSox.

 

[RickStain]

This guy can't believe it either.

 

[WaylonJennings]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

For everyone who is rolling their eyes and saying, "No, ****," you should know that a couple weeks ago, the Chicago Tribune had all of its BBWAA guys write about whether they would elect Sosa to the HOF. A nice number said yes, he would, because, circumstantial evidence be damned, Sosa had never been caught or connected to this stuff.

So as obvious as it is ... getting the actual story still really, really matters.

Nice job, NYT. Take a bow.

 

[WaylonJennings]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

I imagine the Peavy thread destroys my credibility here, but ... I suspect you're going to be waiting a long, long time for Frank Thomas to join the club.

What Peavy thread? Did he take Steroids?

The one where Waylon said Peavy was a wuss because he had blocked a trade to the ChiSox.

Obviously I'm less broken up about those developments in light of subsequent events.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

I imagine the Peavy thread destroys my credibility here, but ... I suspect you're going to be waiting a long, long time for Frank Thomas to join the club.

What Peavy thread? Did he take Steroids?

The one where Waylon said Peavy was a wuss because he had blocked a trade to the ChiSox.

Obviously I'm less broken up about those developments in light of subsequent events.

Aren't the Yankees on his "approval" list as well? Damn glad that didn't happen, either.

 

[outofplace]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

I imagine the Peavy thread destroys my credibility here, but ... I suspect you're going to be waiting a long, long time for Frank Thomas to join the club.

What Peavy thread? Did he take Steroids?

The one where Waylon said Peavy was a wuss because he had blocked a trade to the ChiSox.

Obviously I'm less broken up about those developments in light of subsequent events.

Besides, he proved you right. The wuss only managed three starts with a torn tendon in his ankle that might require surgery. A real tough guy would have lasted a least another month, dammit!

I agree with you on Thomas, though I'm not sure we can be surprised by anybody at this point.

 

[Double J]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

This is kind of like the end of the Dirty Dozen. I really wanted Jefferson to make it. I now really want Frank Thomas and Ken Griffey to make it. Pujols not so much.

Franko was actually the 11th and last to die, although I agree Jefferson's death was the most poignant.

Maggot's death, meanwhile, was unintentional hilarity. And yet, still better than that of Jiminez, who died unseen in a tree from a broken neck - chute jump gone wrong - after director Robert Aldrich got tired of portrayer Trini Lopez's bull****.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

The Duke LaCrosse story!!!!! [/cranberry] Oh wait. I mean, this is a witch hunt!

 

[andyouare?]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

The Duke LaCrosse story!!!!! [/cranberry] Oh wait. I mean, this is a witch hunt!

How many copies has the NY Times sold!?

OK, sorry.

But, seriously, what compels a government lawyer to leak this to the press? Is it just a desire to get the truth out there? Why now?

 

[DanOregon]

Anyone else think it smells pretty bad that at least two lawyers leaked this info? Why risk disbarment for something like this?
I'm not a Sosa defender, I figure he was already lumped in with the cheaters, which is why I don't understand the leak. Why just Sosa?

Wish the story had more than one "new" fact - the rest was boilerplate.

 

[WaylonJennings]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

The Duke LaCrosse story!!!!! [/cranberry] Oh wait. I mean, this is a witch hunt!

How many copies has the NY Times sold!?

OK, sorry.

But, seriously, what compels a government lawyer to leak this to the press? Is it just a desire to get the truth out there? Why now?

Because sometimes people love to talk - it just takes them a while to actually say it.

DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED?
YOU'RE GODDAMNED RIGHT I DID!!!

 

[DanOregon]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

Anyone else think it smells pretty bad that at least two lawyers leaked this info? Why risk disbarment for something like this?
I'm not a Sosa defender, I figure he was already lumped in with the cheaters, which is why I don't understand the leak. Why just Sosa?

Wish the story had more than one "new" fact - the rest was boilerplate.

 

[andyouare?]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

Yeah, why not just go ahead and "leak" all of them. Get it out of the way. It seems odd to just leak Sosa's name.

Plus, I just want the full list for selfish, curious reasons.

 

[WaylonJennings]

Re: Griffey, Thome & Pujols are sweating bullets: Sosa took PEDs

Yeah, why not just go ahead and "leak" all of them. Get it out of the way. It seems odd to just leak Sosa's name.

Hard to say unless you know how the "leak" went down. It's not always as simple as leaker picks up the phone and says, "Pssssst ... meet me in the parking garage."

The reporter was probably negotiating for a name for weeks. Maybe months. "Come on, dude, you gave SI A-Rod. I know you did. Give me one name - one. And all is forgiven. You owe me that ****."

That's how that kind of stuff typically goes down. It's messier than just being a straight-up calculated leak.