View Full Version : Who were you MOST surprised to see on the Mitchell list?
flacat22
12-14-2007, 06:06 AM
We all suspected the hulks of the game (Bonds, Clemens, Tejada, etc) but for me I gotta go with Wally Joyner, he always seemed like the classiest, honest and decent guys I could remember in baseball. Im really disappointed to see him on the list. Chuck Knoblach and Brian Roberts, that would explain their sudden increase in power. In seeing Paul Byrd on the list I was first disappointed in him but the more I searched for a reason why someone like him made the list it made me realize that maybe these guys werent doing it for the performance enhancing aspect but maybe trying to squeeze out a couple of more seasons out of their aging bodies...just my opinion.
John Rocker? Yeah theres a guy that needs more testosterone.
Brian McCat
12-14-2007, 06:34 AM
Not that I care about baseball, but the "juicing up" of the game resulted in a renewed national interest in the game until we found out what was causing it. It didnīt exactly work for them, did it?
cumberlandredskin
12-14-2007, 07:34 AM
To be honest I wouldn't have been surprised at anyone's name being on the list. I think nearly everyone in MLB has at least dabbled with some type of performance enhancer.
jaspcat
12-14-2007, 07:46 AM
Couldn't believe that former Red Hal Morris was implicated. The guy peaked at 16 home runs in '96 and always just seemed like a slap hitter.
I guess when HR numbers go a long way in determining your salary, guys are tempted to try most anything.
Its a shame that most of the players named have already benifitted from their cheating by cashing in on their inflated numbers or just hanging on in the league for a few more years. Most of the guys have retired or are at the end of their career.
crazzedcats22
12-14-2007, 02:31 PM
not surprised that anyone is on the list because they all probably do steroids, but Fernando Vina was pretty laughable!
hoosierhateruklover
12-14-2007, 10:10 PM
Chuck Knoblauch and David Justice.
flacat22
12-15-2007, 08:50 AM
Id like to apologize for my being on the list, I swear I thought they were injecting me with B-12...
Randy
12-15-2007, 05:36 PM
not surprised that anyone is on the list because they all probably do steroids, but Fernando Vina was pretty laughable!
That's the funny thing to me. The biggest majority of the names on the list had or are having average careers.
Blue Heaven
12-16-2007, 06:45 PM
not surprised that anyone is on the list because they all probably do steroids, but Fernando Vina was pretty laughable!
So if they are all doing it, then Barry Bonds is getting a lot of unnecessary flack. Somewhere deep down, Bonds is laughing.
wanderingcat
12-17-2007, 09:57 PM
Someday the sky is going to fall on the NFL. Despite improved training methods and weight lifting, the increase in size of some of those guys from college freshman to now is unnatural.
yitbos
12-18-2007, 07:41 AM
There is a difference between the guys who are on there for actually doing 'roids and those using HGH before it was illegal. For the most part, and this is taking the players words for it so it could be a bunch of hogwash, they did it to recover from serious injuries faster. At the time, it wasn't illegal, wasn't considered "performance enhancing", it was something they were told would help them heal faster. Who wouldn't want to heal faster?
surveyor
12-20-2007, 05:10 PM
Knowing that the owners and the players' union has been aware of steroid use in baseball for at least 20 years, I'm not surprised at any name being on the list.
The players have only been taking advantage of the system as it's been set up.
BleedBlue7
12-23-2007, 03:23 PM
Clemens was the most shocking to me.
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