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Mon 27 Sep, 2004 06:39 pm
This season, Sosa is batting .246 with 33 HR and 77 RBI. Even during his pre-home run chase years Sosa had better numbers and played a lot better defense. His contract expires after next season and I don't expect him to be resigned unless things are turned around for him next year. However, that scenario may not get a chance to be played out because there is talk about him being traded this off season. So what do you think The Cubs should and will do with Sammy?
Have him up his steroid dosage.
Bondsy took a roid test recently. Even though the results aren't in yet, I can tell you he had clean piss.
if he's really washed up, the mets will gladly take him.
but i think he'll bounce back next year and approach his career averages...
I'm extremely skeptical of the drug testing policies of the professional sports leagues in the US. It wasn't until 2002 that the MLB players' union relented on its rabidly anti-drug testing stance in any kind of bargaining agreements it's had with management that they're barely implementing now. It's been within the interests of both to keep the status quo regarding drug testing. It's good for the players' stats, which keeps the fans interested, which is good for marketing, which is good for the owners--more money--which is good for the players . . .
That freak of nature, McGuire, exhibited many of the side-affects of steroid abuse: turgidity, acne, ridiculously large physique, etc. But then again, drug testing in MLB was a joke, and will probably continue to be so.
The news articles only mention the random testing for steroids. What with the plethora of performance enhancing drugs available, steroids are patently obsolete. And that's not mentioning the various substances used to mask the use of steroids.
I follow professional bicycle racing, so I'm pretty jaded and cynical about the whole of pro-sports as regards doping.
The european bike racers have never had a union as strong and powerful as US professional baseball players. They don't have a union, period.
I'm a fan of the Cubs, although I don't follow the season religiously. I lived the early part of my youth in Chicago, and fondly remember summer afternoons at home with my mom; she'd be doing housework with the tv tuned to a Cubs game.
InfraBlue wrote:So much for the Cubs.
What a sensitive way to put it...DO YOU WANNA MAKE ME CRY?!
I feel for ya, and the Cubs, but the downfall was all their making. They lost, what, six of their last seven games!?!
I blame Baker and The Bullpen.
Hey, maybe next year,
lose Sosa or Alou. I like Alou but he is 38(?) Sign Giaparra. Oh well. I was at the first game and am going to be in the bleachers for todays game. Great day for a game even if it is meaningless. COTL I'll wave to ya in the 4th
When I was younger this man was my God. I swear to God, at one point his name was shaved in the back of my head. This sucks.
.308 66 HR 158 RBI (His MVP season, I have it memorized)
Sosa showed no class and he showed up his team. He's toast in Cubville
sounds like something nomar would do, not slammin' sammy... saw a crawler during the braves-stros game that he's filing a grievance
panzade wrote:Sosa showed no class and he showed up his team. He's toast in Cubville
From 98 to 02 Sosa owned Chicago, but not even he can get away with that ****.
Region Philbis wrote: saw a crawler during the braves-stros game that he's filing a grievance
Yeah, how dare they fine you for abandoning the team Sammy!
@Region Philbis,
Getting ready for a Michael Jackson tribute?
@panzade,
how ironic that this thread was originally started by someone named child of the light
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