<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Rays playing Dodgers in LA for 1st time this weekend. Leaves only 1 team that has never hosted another: Padres never played game in Toronto</p>&mdash; ESPN Stats &amp; Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/statuses/365910785609834497">August 9, 2013</a></blockquote>
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huh. Ill be damned.

A PTBNL was all it took to pry Rios away from the southside?

Kenny Williams must be losing it.

I'm no apologist. I think that, if he did indeed lie and continue to cheat, he's an asshole who cheated everyone, and even more so, himself, out of being arguably the greatest player of all time. He could have been the guy to defeat the evil Bonds career HR mark, but instead, he's essentially the current mega heel Bonds.

With that said, I do love him as a player. Juice or no juice, he's an extremely talented, devoted player who would have been one of the greats regardless of drug use. He's a son of bitch of a person, but I still enjoy watching A-Rod the player.

I think thats about all he could have done with Rios right now. Kenny Williams is one of the worst GMs out there. Many reasons for them being another version of the Huston Astros - just without Mark Appel and Carlos Correa.

Kenny got promoted just before the wheels fell off the wagon. Must be nice.

You have no idea when he started juicing, His whole career could be a sham,

Im a yankees fan and I have no tolerance so why are you backing him?

the Rockies scored almost as many runs tonight as they have the whole month

Tampa Bay Blows it and the Red Sox still have a 2 game lead!

If anyone was wondering how well issuing an intentional walk TO PITCH TO Chris Davis works, the Giants found out tonight. :(

OF COURSE Detroits 12-game win streak comes to an end v. the New York Yankees @ "new" Yankee Stadium in A-Frauds 1st home game this year, in a walk-off in the 10th fucking inning. :nono:

If not wins, at least I get some good photo opportunities with all my time at AT&T Park.

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<font color=goldenrod>I'm sure this ring makes both of us angry, RDD :(</font>

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If the devil himself scheduled a train to hell Phil Hughes would be the conductor.

Lyle Overbay with a jack in this lost cause of a game.

Fuck Joba, fuck that fat fucking fuck!

Got good seats for this game and Im just feeling profoundly ripped off save for seeing future HOFers like Miggy, Tori, And maybe Fielder too.

<font color=goldenrod>Remember when Joba was supposed to be Mo's successor?</font>

1 AWAY!!!!!!

If you're ignorant enough to even consider thinking that Alex Rodriguez wouldn't be great with or without drugs, I don't know what to tell you.

Roids do not make a player better. Baseball is a skill driven sport. PEDs do not teach plate discipline, approach, swing path, swing mechanics, etc. Nor do they influence hand eye coordination, pitch recognition, and all of the other skills that go along with baseball. All roids did was either/both help him recover from workouts/injury faster and maintain strength and health. He still had/has to have well developed skills built up and around God given talent in order to excel.

<font color=goldenrod>The Pirates are just 12 wins away from breaking The Streak.</font>

Assuming A-Rod was telling the truth previously about 2001 being the start of his roids, then based on his 1994-2000 stats, he would have been a good to great type player. Probably not MVP or Hall of Fame caliber like Griffey was during that period or Bonds for his pre-roids career.

If he did them while at Seattle, then somewhere in the 1998-2000 period would be the likeliest spot in terms of certain stats.

A cheat is a cheat. And Joba Chamberlain left a slime trail on the field this afternoon.

LOL yeah PEDs dont make you at all better. They dont heal you faster, extend your peak, and allow you to play everyday in top form.

Brady Anderson was not better because of roids, right?

Arod may have been an all time great without them but we will never know. All we can say is hes a fucking cheater that should be exiled like Bonds and Sosa

There's no moving on from this. Baseball is forever tainted. You can ban Arod, but what Bonds did and got away with will never be forgotten. Bonds got of scot free and that is the biggest crime in the history of this sport. Arod is the sacrificial lamb for Bonds.

MLB isn't blameless. They probably let Arod get away with some of the PED so he could have a shot of taking the record since he's not really Bonds level of a cocksucker even though he's pretty close.

People thought Dallas MacPherson was going to be stellar. Todd Van Popple too. Roids probably would've helped them.

Remember Eric Gagne getting ridiculed for how bad he stunk when he wasn't using roids around the time of the trade to Boston and later with Milwaukee.

I don't live in a world of what ifs

I don't care if he could have been great without them. A rod DID use then and in negates every achievement he had on the field.

I cannot believe Pete rose is banned for life and these roiders aren't.

I would rather my kids have rose as a role model than anyone else. He was the hardest working player of all time, and the most competitive. Guy played his heart out every day. Gambling is against the rules but his acts effected less games than arod cheating for 10 years and winning a ring.

Disgusting.

For anyone who thinks peds don't increase every bit of performance a player has, look at melky Cabrera. Below average started in NY and ATL then an all star in KC and SF.

But yeah Damian ray, it doesn't make bad players good.

<font color=goldenrod>At this point I think baseball just needs to acknowledge that the steroid era happened. Put up a wing in the HOF specifically for the 90s/00s and just be like "yeah, this was an era of baseball and a lot of people cheated during this time...draw your own conclusions".

But the writers will probably continue to refuse voting for anybody they even remotely think might have cheated. Even guys like Bagwell and Piazza who have never been officially implicated aside from like one rogue writer accusing them of doing it for no reason other than they hit a lot of HR in the steroid era. Leaving out known roiders like McGwire is one thing, but I guarantee at least one clean guy who is clearly HOF worthy will be left out unjustly.</font>

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<font color=goldenrod>Anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.</font>

I dont think its hurt anyone that hasnt popped.

Frank Thomas is going to WALTZ into the Hall this year. Not one person will hold him back.

I think the only clean guys not making wont be because of doubt, but numbers.

Fred McGriff belongs in the Hall, but because of Juicers skewing numbers in his era he falls short.

Fucking Crime Dawg for HOF 2014 lets make this happen TPWW

<font color=goldenrod>I hope you're right about Frank Thomas. No question he deserves it. But the Bagwell and Piazza snubs have me concerned that these old fogey voters have decided that the entire era is tainted and all power hitters should be questioned. It's not right. Even Craig fucking Biggio got left off and he wasn't even a power hitter. 3,000 hits is normally a lock.

Actually Bagwell and Piazza could be in deep shit if they don't make it this year since this is the last year before locks like Glavine and Maddux enter the ballot, Smoltz the following year, etc.</font>

Do you assume pitchers wont be tainted by PEDs? Guys like Thomas and Griffey are fine because they never had even a whiff of suspicion. Bagwell and Piazza and Biggio will make it with time. This was a "statement year" by the writers.