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2004-08-09 Europe

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Posted by Zenster 2004-08-09 1:44:49 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 OMG- Roids in Baseball???!!! Say it aint so!
/looking at you Bonds, Sosa, McGwire

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-08-09 2:16:05 PM|| 2004-08-09 2:16:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Americans of Greek descent?!? WTF? Play for your own damn country, and let the others field their own teams! You want to play for Greece? F*cking move there and change your nationality.

Posted by BH 2004-08-09 2:47:59 PM|| 2004-08-09 2:47:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 There's no Greek baseball at all -- only reason Greece is fielding a team on that sport is the host country's privilege to field a team on *every* sport.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-08-09 3:03:31 PM|| 2004-08-09 3:03:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 So what's the point of fielding a team for a sport that nobody plays? Just because you can? I've just never seen a whole baseball team comprised of pinch-hitters before.

Posted by BH 2004-08-09 3:22:37 PM|| 2004-08-09 3:22:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I suppose that this isn't the best time to bring up the Armenian bobsledding team.

Posted by Zenster 2004-08-09 3:35:07 PM|| 2004-08-09 3:35:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 So Aris, how's your slider?

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-09 4:07:22 PM|| 2004-08-09 4:07:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Aris can't pitch for this one. He's supposed to be blogging the off the field action for Rantburg.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2004-08-09 4:09:56 PM|| 2004-08-09 4:09:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 This is illustrative of widespread steroid abuse in baseball.Remember the 5-7% of MLB players that tested positive for steroids?A couple of points.The major leaguers had plenty of advance warning,so only the stupid or hopelessly addicted tested positive.Second pitchers are not thought to be steroid users,so the 5-7% are from position players.Most 25man rosters have at least 10 pitchers,7% of 15 is @2 players per team,giving an effective rate of @13% of position players caught using steroids.If 13% of your employees were caught using drugs,would you say you had no problem?MLB is.

BTW,US mens basketball team's hopes for gold rest on Tim Duncan,who was not born in US.(Virgin Islands can field teams in international competitions.)Shammond Williams,African-American,plays for Georgia national mens basketball team.MLB wanted to boost international presence by helping field Greek team.

Posted by Stephen 2004-08-09 5:14:42 PM|| 2004-08-09 5:14:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Given the header, I thought it was an AIDs article...

Posted by borgboy 2004-08-09 18:15|| 2004-08-09 18:15|| Front Page Top

#10 borgboy: So did I. And Greek baseball sounds like something played in the bathroom of a Georgetown dance club.

Posted by BH">BH 2004-08-09 22:16|| 2004-08-09 22:16|| Front Page Top

#11 brings new meaning to pitcher and catcher, eh?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2004-08-09 22:19|| 2004-08-09 22:19|| Front Page Top

#12 brings new meaning to pitcher and catcher, eh?

Keep your mitts offa me!

Posted by Zenster 2004-08-09 22:34|| 2004-08-09 22:34|| Front Page Top

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