baseball 2012

[transjen]

Originally Posted by shadows

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that Ryan Braun(the 2011 NL MVP) has been suspended 50 games for testing positive for a PED. While the baseball writers of America have said that they will not give his award to the runner-up, I feel that if his appeal is not successful and his ban is upheld, then he should be stripped of the award. Why should he be rewarded, especially since it sounds like he knew about the positive test a MONTH before the MVP awards were announced.

Call it excellent timing

It happend now while most sport fans are caught up in the NFL and didn't happen during spring training when it would have caused a much bigger reaction, The baseball news everyone was paying attention to was where Big Al was going to sign with and so now most baseball fan have now going back to sleep awaiting spring training
Philliefan Jen

[smc]

Originally Posted by shadows

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that Ryan Braun(the 2011 NL MVP) has been suspended 50 games for testing positive for a PED. While the baseball writers of America have said that they will not give his award to the runner-up, I feel that if his appeal is not successful and his ban is upheld, then he should be stripped of the award. Why should he be rewarded, especially since it sounds like he knew about the positive test a MONTH before the MVP awards were announced.

Let's get our facts straight, my friend. Braun's positive test results were leaked while he is appealing the finding. MLB has not yet suspended him and did not want the results made public pending the appeal. He claims there is an explanation (sounds dicey to me, at best).

My only wish is that he had received the American League MVP award so that stripping it from him would result in Jacoby Ellsbury being named MVP.

Originally Posted by transjen

Call it excellent timing

It happend now while most sport fans are caught up in the NFL and didn't happen during spring training when it would have caused a much bigger reaction, The baseball news everyone was paying attention to was where Big Al was going to sign with and so now most baseball fan have now going back to sleep awaiting spring training
Philliefan Jen

Not this sports fan, Jen. I hate American football. I'm caught up in the NHL.

[ila]

Originally Posted by smc

Not this sports fan, Jen. I hate American football. I'm caught up in the NHL.

I quite agree. American football is the most boring game on the planet. Unfortunately too many US players and coaches infiltrated the Canadian Football League and ruined our game.

Hockey is far more interesting that any other sport going on at this time.

[transjen]

Originally Posted by ila

Hockey is far more interesting that any other sport going on at this time.

That's because Ice Hockey is the worlds greatest sport period
Santa's naughty elf Jen

[shadows]

Originally Posted by smc

Let's get our facts straight, my friend. Braun's positive test results were leaked while he is appealing the finding. MLB has not yet suspended him and did not want the results made public pending the appeal. He claims there is an explanation (sounds dicey to me, at best).

My only wish is that he had received the American League MVP award so that stripping it from him would result in Jacoby Ellsbury being named MVP.



Not this sports fan, Jen. I hate American football. I'm caught up in the NHL.

That's true, but I still think he should be stripped of it if (when?) it's determined that he did use PEDs.

And I agree with you about hockey being far superior to football.

[smc]

Originally Posted by shadows

That's true, but I still think he should be stripped of it if (when?) it's determined that he did use PEDs.

And I agree with you about hockey being far superior to football.

Just to clarify: I didn't write that hockey was "far superior" to football. I wouldn't make a comparison like that.

Hockey is a great sport.

Football is a mock war among mostly meatheaded men with overactive pituitary glands. It is not a sport.

[transjen]

Originally Posted by smc

Football is a mock war among mostly meatheaded men with overactive pituitary glands. It is not a sport.

I thought that was basketball
Santa's naughty elf Jen

[dauls]

Baseball's Barry Bonds spared jail for misleading jury.

from bbc.co.uk/news/

Former US baseball star Barry Bonds has been spared jail after he misled a jury investigating whether he took performance-enhancing drugs.

A federal judge in San Francisco sentenced the 47-year-old to 30 days' house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service.

The sentence, which includes a $4,000 (?2,580) fine, has been delayed while he appeals against his conviction.

In April, Bonds was convicted of obstructing justice.

Rambling responses

The former San Francisco Giants slugger was the last defendant in a government investigation of a steroids-distribution ring in San Francisco.

He was convicted of giving evasive answers to a grand jury in December 2003.

Bonds gave rambling responses to prosecutors' questions in which he spoke of being "a celebrity child" among other irrelevant statements.

The trial jury failed to reach a verdict on other charges that Bond lied when he denied taking steroids, or that he had received injections from someone other than his doctor.

Prosecutors had wanted a 15-month prison sentence, arguing house arrest was not adequate punishment since Bonds lives in a large estate in Beverly Hills, California. He had sought probation.

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30 days house arrest and $4,000 fine -- a joke!
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250 hours of community service -- I suppose that's the main reason he is bothering to appeal the conviction.

[smc]

Originally Posted by dauls

Baseball's Barry Bonds spared jail for misleading jury.

from bbc.co.uk/news/

30 days house arrest and $4,000 fine -- a joke!
+
250 hours of community service -- I suppose that's the main reason he is bothering to appeal the conviction.

Not HOUSE arrest. MANSION arrest.

Peter Keane, emeritus dean of the Golden Gate University Law School, has been tracking the Bonds case, and other steroid investigations and trials, for years. ?Well, the punishment was particularly light,? he says. ?He was convicted of a federal felony, a serious offense. Bonds intentionally threw a monkey wrench into the gears of the justice system. That?s not jaywalking.?

Keane thinks the federal steroid investigations, which critics have called a waste of government time and money, were worth it. Younger athletes are certainly more aware of steroid dangers. But to Keane, the length and hassle of the Bonds trial ? charges were filed in November of 2007 - has drowned out that message. Outrage over Bonds? sentence will only overshadow it further. ?He?s going to do 30 days in a 10-bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills?? says Keane. ?If he needs someone to do the time for him, he can give me a call.?

[shadows]

Originally Posted by dauls

Baseball's Barry Bonds spared jail for misleading jury.

from bbc.co.uk/news/

30 days house arrest and $4,000 fine -- a joke!
+
250 hours of community service -- I suppose that's the main reason he is bothering to appeal the conviction.

The worst part of all this is all the taxpayers dollars that went down the tubes while this whole fiasco was going on. Everyone knows that he IS guilty(your head doesn't swell up to that size for no reason), but if you're a celebrity(even one as douchey as Bonds) you are given a different standard than an average citizen.