View Full Version : Canseco Says MLB and Palmeiro Conspired in Congressional Hearings
Bronco_Beerslug
03-12-2006, 08:11 AM
On "Outside The Lines" this morning Canseco says he has information Baseball conspired to keep secret Palmeiro's steroid use to try and discredit him and shift the focus away from Baseball.
He says his source is at a high level inside baseball.
Baseball, the game, seems to be doing a fast dive into the gutter with no way out.
-Slap-
03-12-2006, 08:17 AM
On "Outside The Lines" this morning Canseco says he has information Baseball conspired to keep secret Palmeiro's steroid use to try and discredit him and shift the focus away from Baseball.
He says his source is at a high level inside baseball.
Baseball, the game, seems to be doing a fast dive into the gutter with no way out.
Kind of a stupid assertion since they popped Raffy for using performance enhancers and then suspended him.
Bronco_Beerslug
03-12-2006, 08:39 AM
Kind of a stupid assertion since they popped Raffy for using performance enhancers and then suspended him.
I don't know, after the hearings and what has happened to this point, Canseco seems to be the only one telling the truth.
He says that Palmeiro failed a test before the hearings and MLB hid it.
-Slap-
03-12-2006, 08:44 AM
Just because Canseco was telling the truth about some things, doesn't mean his word is gold. Don't you think it makes sense for Jose to chime in every few months with another comment as long as his book is still selling a few copies?
Now if he came out and said Madonna gave him pecker warts, I would be less skeptical.
watermock
03-12-2006, 08:50 AM
Ha! He actually got them from Ron Mexico.
Bronco_Beerslug
03-12-2006, 08:52 AM
Just because Canseco was telling the truth about some things, doesn't mean his word is gold. Don't you think it makes sense for Jose to chime in every few months with another comment as long as his book is still selling a few copies?
Now if he came out and said Madonna gave him pecker warts, I would be less skeptical.
Was he sharing sheets with her?
I think with this and Bonds Baseball is going to have to have a complete ouside, independent investigation on what's happened in the last 10 years or so.
ro_50
03-12-2006, 09:12 AM
Canseco has more credibility to me than Bonds, McGwire, Raffy, or Sosa.
There was a time when I thought I would never say that.
-Slap-
03-12-2006, 09:37 AM
Canseco has more credibility to me than Bonds, McGwire, Raffy, or Sosa.
There was a time when I thought I would never say that.
Agreed. Whether his credibility is enhanced by some unnamed source "at a high level inside baseball" is certainly open to debate. Sounds to me like Twitchy is just trying to goose book sales again, but nothing would really surprise me anymore.
Play2win
03-12-2006, 09:44 AM
Baseball, the game, seems to be doing a fast dive into the gutter with no way out.
Yeah, and there is no Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire to "Save" it this time...
watermock
03-12-2006, 09:44 AM
nothing would really surprise me anymore.
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Jason in LA
03-12-2006, 10:19 AM
It's funny that when he said he was going to have a tell all book, people dissmised it as BS, and that he was just trying to get some pub, and some money. Well, he was trying to get some pub and money, but it wasn't BS at all.
Think about it for a second, if he didn't write that book, would MLB have had to go infront of congress, and then do something about the drug problem? Who would have thought that Canseco would be the guy to fix baseball, even if that wasn't his intentions.
Natedogg
03-12-2006, 10:23 AM
Nothing ever surprises me in this crazy world. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Minnow sail into the San Diego naval base with a couple japanese POW's with Ginger pregnant via Gilligan
*shakes head with a dumbfounded grin*
Atlas
03-12-2006, 10:25 AM
I don't know, after the hearings and what has happened to this point, Canseco seems to be the only one telling the truth.
He says that Palmeiro failed a test before the hearings and MLB hid it.
I agree. People call Canseco a rat or whatever but everything he has said has been right on. "F" baseball.
-Slap-
03-12-2006, 10:34 AM
It's funny that when he said he was going to have a tell all book, people dissmised it as BS, and that he was just trying to get some pub, and some money. Well, he was trying to get some pub and money, but it wasn't BS at all.
Think about it for a second, if he didn't write that book, would MLB have had to go infront of congress, and then do something about the drug problem? Who would have thought that Canseco would be the guy to fix baseball, even if that wasn't his intentions.
Not everybody dismissed his allegations. He was pointing fingers at guys like B*nds and McGwire who had all kinds of rumors swirling around them already. Just because he named names in his book, it doesn't mean everything he says from this point forward is the truth. Are you forgetting that Jose denied his own steroid usage for years and he only came clean when his career was over and he needed money.
-Slap-
03-12-2006, 10:37 AM
Its a known fact the NFL buried several positive drug tests during the 80s. I'm sure they would do it again, depending on the circumstances.
Jason in LA
03-12-2006, 11:11 AM
Didn't the NFL get the drug policy in the '80s? Seems like baseball is where the NFL was back then. I trust the NFL's drug policy. Sure, some players figure out how to cheat the system, but I'd say the NFL does the best they can, and have done a good job. Hopefully baseball can get to that level very fast.
Does anyone really...REALLY care about this crap anymore? Bottom line players in baseball and football use roids and others drugs, we all know it so what is this on going debate about?
I for one have had enough of it from "reporters" on the radio, TV, news print and the net.