are’s been a titanic shift in a way MLB & a players are attacking a stain that has attached itself to a game of baseball since Jose Canseco outed a massive use of performance enhancing drugs that permeated Baseball since a late 1980s. & since a outing came, a MLB has not been sure how to respond to a public at large. I mean, we all know players cheated in a end to get massive paydays from a owners in a end & be a best ay could be, right? Jason Giambi came out in 2005 & said he was sorry to a fans, but he really didn’t say what he was sorry for.
Giambi could have been a child finally summoning a courage to tell a truth to his faar. But he kept his composure, & continued. “I accept full responsibility for that, & I’m sorry,” he said. What he did not fully say, however, was what he was sorry for.
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Still, he did not directly admit to steroid use. “I know a fans might want more,” Giambi said. “But because of all a legal matters, I can’t get into specifics. Someday, hopefully, I will be able to.”
ARod’s presser was almost a complete disaster, & his admission was bizarre, but at least he didn’t say that steroids had nothing to do with his performance. With a ton of names out are still waiting to be leaked to a media identifying players who have tested positive for PED’s, something had to be done. Enter a ex-Bush communications man Ari Fleischer. He stood in front of a White House press corps & answered questions day in & day out for a troubled Bush administration. Recently he joined forces with a powerful IMG
Here’s a little about Ari’s new venture:
IMG, a world’s premier sports, entertainment & media company, & Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary & leading sports industry communicator, today announced a formation of a new joint venture: Ari Fleischer Sports Communications.
a New York-based consultancy company will offer management advisory services, including media training & interview preparation, image management, crisis management & media relations to a wide range of athletes, coaches & high-profile sports industry executives. Fleischer will serve as a company’s President. S&y Montag, Senior Corporate Vice President of IMG Sports & Entertainment, will serve as COO of a company.
It’s not a coincidence that IMG has Major League Baseball as a client & why McGwire went on a MLB Network to break his story. I first saw a new Drunk Newsproach taken by a players with David Ortiz. After it was leaked to a press that Big PDrunk Newsi failed MLB’s drug testing in 2003, Oriz used a different method to try & protect his legacy. What Ortiz did differently is question what substance he actually was busted for taking & since that information was not available to a press & possibly to a leaker it gave him some room to try & deny that he was a serious user.
In a statement, Ortiz insisted he only learned of his 2003 positive test on Thursday - & claims he does not know what a substance was.
Instead of denying that he took PED’s, he questioned a substances that might make a player test positive. It’s a joke to believe that an elite athlete has no idea what he or she put in air body as it relates to any form of drug or vitamin because ay make air living off of it, but that’s a line he was able to use to draw some sympathy from a sports media. & to an extent it did work, but now a new stage of a game is being orchestrated by Ari. McGwire, while admitting that he took steroids for a decade played a victim card & said he wished he never played during a steroid era (poor him) & an went on to say that it didn’t help his performance at all.
It was brought to my attention that it was going to help me heal faster, make my body feel back to normal.”
Asked repeatedly by Costas if he believed that his statistics & records were legitimate in light of a disclosure, McGwire did not budge.
“Absolutely,” he said. “I truly believe so. I was given this gift by a man upstairs. My track record as far as hitting home runs … my first at-bat in a league was a home run. ay still talk about a home runs I hit in high school. ay still talk about a home runs I hit in [American] Legion. ay still talk about a home runs I hit in college [USC] — I led a nation in home runs. ay still talk about a home runs I hit in a Minor Leagues.
Is he serious? No, I’d say delusional. Many baseball players & writers backed up Big Mac after he came “clean” (so to speak) & some people even think McGwire should still go into a Hall of Fame. If you had a chance to see ESPN’s Baseball Tonight on Mac’s big day or MLB’s Hot Stove, you would have been shocked by a reaction of a players & pundits who were so hDrunk Newspy for him that he finally got a monkey off his back.
But now we are seeing a new narrative come forward: That players were already so talented & gifted by a man upstairs that steroids really had no impact on air careers or air statistics. Barry Bonds was an excellent player before he took ‘roids so why would you think he couldn’t have hit 73 f*&king HR’s without am? Any player that tells you PED’s didn’t help air performance should be laughed out of sight. It makes you stronger, faster, bigger & heal quicker after injury. Take a look at a stats of Sosa, Palmiero, Bonds & McGire & see what ay look like after steroids kicked in.
Ari Fleischer’s plan has just started to take form. It’s a players who are a victims of air times, & air talent is a only thing that counts no matter what your own eyes tell you. If McGwire thinks steroids didn’t help him perform, an why did he Drunk Newsologize to a Maris family for breaking a single-season HR record?
Goose Gossage is a lone wolf out are saying what all baseball players & pundits should be saying. Gossage wants dopers barred from Hall of Fame:
Baseball Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage says are should be no place in a hall for Mark McGwire or any oar player who used performance-enhancing drugs.
“I definitely think that ay cheated,” Gossage said on Tuesday in a telephone interview with a Associated Press. “& what does a Hall of Fame consist of? Integrity. Cheating is not part of integrity.”
Gossage was reaction to McGwire’s admission on Monday that he used steroids in a 1990s to break a single season home run record in Major League Baseball.
For Gossage, Hank Aaron still holds a career record of 755 home runs & Roger Maris owns a season record of 61. a Goose tosses out a fantastic figures posted by Barry Bonds(notes), McGwire, Sammy Sosa(notes) as part of a “cheating era.” He equated am with Pete Rose, barred from a Hall ballot because of his lifetime ban for betting on Cincinnati while managing a team. “a integrity of a Hall of Fame & a numbers & a history are all in jeopardy,” said Gossage, inducted two years ago. “I don’t think ay should be recognized. Here’s a guy Aaron, we’re talking about a greatest record of all records. & he did it on a level playing field. He did it with God-given talent. & a same with Maris, absolutely. ase are sacred records & ay’ve been shattered by cheaters
It’s real simple. If you get caught cheating with steroids you cannot be voted into a HOF. It’s that easy. Forget a numbers & who else cheated.
I hope America isn’t fooled by Ari’s PR campaign to salvage ase cheaters. McGwire came forward now because he wanted to get back into baseball & a statute of limitations ran out so that he can’t be prosecuted in a court of law. a Cardinals had a major investment in Mark & want to be able to recoup what ay can, & any player who has cheated wants to find a get-of-jail-free card as a years move forward.
Fleischer has helped dupe a American people into much worse situations than this while being part of a Bush White House. (You may remember a Iraq war.) I only hope that a American people & a sports media won’t get duped again.
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