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Reaction to the Raul Ibanez Steroid accusations

June 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment

There’s starting to be a little reaction the the recent guffaw surrounding the accusations made by Midwest Sports Fans about Raul Ibanez.

First off, it was tastefully done. We had to kick ourselves a little bit when we saw that this blogger was all over ESPN and the rest of the blogosphere for basically expressing an idea that we had decided against. Just weeks before all this came out, we were talking to a friend about doing a ‘Steroid Witchhunt’ on Raul Ibanez. And it wouldn’t have been done in jest.
We have to think that Ibanez is doing something different as well. While he preaches his consistency, he’s just putting up too big of numbers right now to be doing this all naturally. When that happens, of course you’re going to get some accusations of PED usage.
Granted, Ibanez is hitting in a lineup right now that is probably as good as he’s ever been in; but he’s never hit like this in his career. When he points towards all the reasons of his innocence, I simply look at it as ‘how many times have we heard that before’? I’ll never forget knowing that I got duped by Rafael Palmeiro, and then Sammy Sosa, and then Roger Clemens, and then Alex Rodriguez, and most recently Manny Ramirez. These guys aren’t going to come out and say that they’re guilty. It’s not in their makeup.
If anything, Ibanez’s resistance to the allegations make him look a little overly sensitive and quite frankly, more guilty. We think Ibanez should have kept his mouth shut and if indeed his poop, pee, hair, etc. was tested enough; there’d be some more smoke where there was fire.
Filed Under: Philadelphia Phillies, Raul Ibanez, Steroids

DH Steroid Witchhunt: Jeff "Frenchy" Francoeur

July 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Today there’s news that Jeff Francoeur has been recalled by the Atlanta Braves to be back with the big league club after being demoted to AA for a line that smelled of .234/8HR/41 RBI. Congrats Frenchy, and welcome back. You’re a Major Leaguer again, where the ballparks are like cathedrals; and all that good shit.

We promised to be much more selective in doing these Steroid Witchhunts. But we think there’s pretty good reason to finger Frenchy. Back when he was getting Sports Illustrated cover stories, he hit 29 dingers. Then last season he dropped down to only 19 homers in a full 162 game season. This season he’s down to eight.

Plus those are just the numbers. You look at how Frenchy is built. He’s just a rock solid little prick, ya know? Like a football defensive back playing baseball by accident. Just for something to do in the offseason. Plus we know a guy who is from Georgia that knew the Francoeur family and Frenchy himself, and he said he was just a pure meathead with a ten cent head on his shoulders. You know what all this adds up to.

Steroid User Rating/Probability: 76% Roider

Status: He’s doing them. Or at least he was.

Filed Under: 'Frenchy' Francoeur, Atlanta Braves, Steroid Witchhunts

Here's how it's gonna go tenatively

June 30, 2007 By Leave a Comment

A good blog has structure and focus. We’re clearly focused on baseball coverage, but with that being said we skip around a lot. From now on, we plan to make this place a little neater and not such a confusing place to be. Each day, if we make an entry we will go for a certain type of entry. This doesn’t mean we still can’t recap a ballgame or an entire night’s action. It also leaves room for us to be very random. Things will just be a bit more organized for the time being. Depending on what day it is, we’ll make a certain entry that will warm your heart. Here is the set up.

Friday: Week in Review, Weekend preview, Visitors Dugout
Saturday: Saturday Baseball afternoon roundtable (smorgusboard of posts)
Sunday: Opininative Piece
Monday: A case of the mondays rant (we rip someone)
Tuesday: Steroid Witchhunt
Wednesday: Story Time/Random Player Review
Thursday: The Dippers/Hoggers Review

You’ll see how these different formats shape up as we do them, but expect this to be the format going forward, or like, at least until we’re sick of writing about these things.

Filed Under: How's this all going to end?, Organizing, random

Week in Review

June 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Memorial Day kicks off the summer
Memorial Day weekend officially kicked off the summer, and we kicked it off as well by drinking a few ‘pops’ to get in the spirit on the weekend, and during the week. There was good baseball on for us to watch all the way through; thankfully.

Editor George goes under the knife
No worries, he’ll get well soon and has promised to deliver some quality material so I can slack a bit. He also offered his thoughts on the Yankees–and told Yankee fans to keep the faith.

A HUGE week for Cleveland sports
Cleveland sports has really put me in a good mood this week. We had the Catch, the Lebron, and the Indians sweeping Detroit in Detroit, and then winning last night in Cleveland. Oh yeah, Sizemore and company messed up Dice-K Matsuzaka as well. 3 1/2 games up in the AL Central as we speak.

A-Rod gets caught
I’m sure he’d rather of been caught stealing (bases or goods and items) rather than be caught cheating on his wife…..with a stripper slut puppy. A-Rod did alright, she was no hog. Look for his good play to continue on the field, and well things off the field are obviously going just as well.

Adrian Beltre reads Diamond Hoggers
Our favorite Seattle Mariners 3rd basemen stopped by Diamond Hoggers to offer his thoughts on our Steroid Witchhunt feature story about him. He even left a comment. Note to Adrian: why else would your power drop off from 48 homeruns to just below 20 in the next season? If it smells like shit and it looks like shit, it probably ain’t mud, Chucko.

Reds Rantings
I crybabied about the possibility of the Reds trading Adam Dunn, as well as shared my thoughts with how dissapointed I’ve been with the play of these no-hustle, underachieving, lose at home, snatch-defeat from the jaws of victory, little fucks. Yeah I’ve about had it with the Reds.

Filed Under: Week in review