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Posted: **Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:55 pm**

Just found out the Ortiz thing was part of MLB trying to clean up the game. Players were offered anonymity and immunity for coming clean about steroid use and STOPPING. The list of players was leaked, which is why we know he was on there. So that might be why he was given a pass over Bonds, Clemons, Sosa, McGuire, etc.

They say Pete Rose isn't in the HOF, not because he gambled on games, but because he lied about it and wouldn't own up to it.

Sounds a lot like how Bonds has been handling his situation...

Posted: **Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:53 pm**

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:55 pm Just found out the Ortiz thing was part of MLB trying to clean up the game. Players were offered anonymity and immunity for coming clean about steroid use and STOPPING.

Ortiz says he never used. The test says he was. So was he lying?

Posted: **Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:28 pm**

TheCatt wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:53 pm
Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:55 pm Just found out the Ortiz thing was part of MLB trying to clean up the game. Players were offered anonymity and immunity for coming clean about steroid use and STOPPING.
Ortiz says he never used. The test says he was. So was he lying?

No fucking idea. I saw that info in a Twitter thread of people arguing about it all and the info was from a credible article (not from something like yankeesrule.com). Didn't both reading it, just the summary.

Tried googling it all just now and there's so much conflicting information. Everyone that was on the ballot this year tested positive during this anonymous test in 2003, including him. However, was he actually on the list? He doesn't deny it, but former MLB commish Manfried does.

Cheaters shouldn't be in any HOF. End of story.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2022 4:48 pm**

Yankees were stealing signs and everyone's been trying to keep it hush hush.

Does anyone in baseball not cheat?

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:06 pm**

Trevor Bauer suspended for TWO SEASONS for sexually assaulting and being violent with a single woman.

Wow. The Cleveland Browns and Deshaun Watson can't be thrilled about that news.

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:19 pm**

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:06 pm Trevor Bauer suspended for TWO SEASONS for sexually assaulting and being violent with a single woman.

Wow. The Cleveland Browns and Deshaun Watson can't be thrilled about that news.

Bauer, 31, was accused of sexual assault by a San Diego woman who requested a restraining order and essentially alleged that he took consensual rough sex too far over the course of two encounters last April and May. An L.A. judge denied the woman a permanent restraining order in August, and the L.A. County District Attorney's Office declined to file criminal charges in February. But MLB, which has the autonomy to suspend players without a criminal conviction, also looked into at least one other incident of alleged sexual assault with a woman from Ohio.

I don't love the 2 year ban based on this.

At the conclusion of a four-day hearing on Aug. 19, L.A. Superior Court Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman dissolved the temporary restraining order, ruling that Bauer did not pose a continual threat to the woman and that her injuries were not the result of anything she verbally objected to before or during the encounter, pointing to texts from the woman in which she asked to be choked out.

The judge said the "injuries as shown in the photographs are terrible," but added: "If she set limits and he exceeded them, this case would've been clear. But she set limits without considering all the consequences, and respondent did not exceed limits that the petitioner set."

Yeah, this is crap.

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:31 pm**

TheCatt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:19 pm Yeah, this is crap.

100% agree. Must be something else behind the long suspension? Or is baseball taking a stand against rough sex?

I know he's appealing. I cannot imagine the player's union is going to be cool with a player being suspended that long, especially based on the stuff you quoted above.

Posted: **Sat Apr 30, 2022 8:11 am**

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:31 pm I know he's appealing. I cannot imagine the player's union is going to be cool with a player being suspended that long, especially based on the stuff you quoted above.

And he's already missed ~100 games. This is dumb.

He spent the last 81 regular-season games on administrative leave, plus an additional 18 to begin the 2022 season.

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2022 4:51 pm**

The Reds just no hit the Pirates, but lost 1-0.

Wow.

Posted: **Mon May 16, 2022 11:59 pm**

Well, that sucks.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2022 1:12 pm**

Someone in MLB apparently pissed off Congress.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2022 4:08 pm**

Freddie Freeman fires his agent after details reveal they fucked over his chances of staying in Atlanta and probably cost him money.

Posted: **Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:24 am**

Letter to Congress asking for minor league players to stop living in poverty.

I truly do not understand how baseball has so much money to throw around on top stars, so starving the bottom ones makes sense.

They can't fill parks and nobody watches. Their core demographic listens to games on the radio and reads about them in the newspaper. How do they make money?

Posted: **Tue Aug 23, 2022 11:35 am**

Let the robots call balls + strikes

Posted: **Tue Aug 23, 2022 12:52 pm**

Only a matter of time.

Posted: **Tue Sep 06, 2022 2:37 pm**

Minor leaguers vote to join union.

MLB has NBA sized contracts and NFL sized rosters with MLB fan support. It's going to be interesting to see what happens if this move really bumps their operating expenses.

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2022 4:49 pm**

Baseball tries to outdo the Denver-Indy game

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2022 10:08 pm**

So, soccer?

Posted: **Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:41 pm**

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2022 8:47 am**

I give about zero shits about baseball. But, congrats to Dusty Baker for helping the Astos