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Steinbrenner: Baseball singled out
Topic Started: Feb 19 2008, 09:33 AM (279 Views)
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Hank Steinbrenner insists baseball is being picked on for its trouble with performance-enhancing drugs, and claims the problem is bigger in football.
"I don't like baseball being singled out," the Yankees senior vice president said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Monday night.

"Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs. I don't know how they managed to skate by. It irritates me. Don't tell me it's not more prevalent. The number in football is at least twice as many. Look at the speed and size of those players."

Answered NFL spokesman Greg Aiello: "We've had year-round random testing with immediate suspensions since 1990 and we conduct approximately 12,000 steroids tests a year."

Steinbrenner's comments came after Andy Pettitte met with reporters for the first time since the Yankees pitcher was named in the Mitchell Report. Two days after the report was released in December, Pettitte confirmed he used human growth hormone in 2002; two weeks ago, he told congressional investigators he also used HGH for one day in 2004.

"A lot of baseball people thought that baseball would be the last sport that it would be a problem in and probably just ignored it too long," Steinbrenner said. "But the fact is it's been in football a long time and it's been in basketball, I'm sure. Why baseball is being singled out, I don't know. I don't know. I know all the excuses -- `Well, it's America's game and it's the statistics.'

"That's not an excuse. If a sport is riddled with it, it's riddled with it. Why aren't they looking at the NFL?" he said.

Steinbrenner said baseball will "clean up the game."

"We're going to do it," he said.

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/articl...t=.jsp&c_id=nyy

Hank is right. I'd bet 99.9% of football is on something and at least 50% of basketball. Also it seems like certain people are being singled out in baseball as well.
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yeah its deffinately singled out a lot. But its only because its americas pastime, and because it h as probablly the worst commissioner of the big 3 sports.
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people dont care if football players are jucied up because if there jucied up the fans get a better show...
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Bloss,Feb 19 2008
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people dont care if football players are jucied up because if there jucied up the fans get a better show...

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dosnt ring a bell

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TheHugeUnit,Feb 19 2008
09:33 AM
Hank Steinbrenner insists baseball is being picked on for its trouble with performance-enhancing drugs, and claims the problem is bigger in football.
"I don't like baseball being singled out," the Yankees senior vice president said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Monday night.

"Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs. I don't know how they managed to skate by. It irritates me. Don't tell me it's not more prevalent. The number in football is at least twice as many. Look at the speed and size of those players."

Answered NFL spokesman Greg Aiello: "We've had year-round random testing with immediate suspensions since 1990 and we conduct approximately 12,000 steroids tests a year."

Steinbrenner's comments came after Andy Pettitte met with reporters for the first time since the Yankees pitcher was named in the Mitchell Report. Two days after the report was released in December, Pettitte confirmed he used human growth hormone in 2002; two weeks ago, he told congressional investigators he also used HGH for one day in 2004.

"A lot of baseball people thought that baseball would be the last sport that it would be a problem in and probably just ignored it too long," Steinbrenner said. "But the fact is it's been in football a long time and it's been in basketball, I'm sure. Why baseball is being singled out, I don't know. I don't know. I know all the excuses -- `Well, it's America's game and it's the statistics.'

"That's not an excuse. If a sport is riddled with it, it's riddled with it. Why aren't they looking at the NFL?" he said.

Steinbrenner said baseball will "clean up the game."

"We're going to do it," he said.

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/articl...t=.jsp&c_id=nyy

Hank is right. I'd bet 99.9% of football is on something and at least 50% of basketball. Also it seems like certain people are being singled out in baseball as well.

I can't believe I am saying this, but I have to agree 100% with this. When was the last time you saw a Pro Football player weigh in @ less than 200 lbs?
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Probably because in baseball, it is more about individual statistics and records, and in football, it is all about winning.
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soxpride7,Feb 20 2008
03:48 PM
fuck steinbrenner

AHHAHAHAHHAHAHA YOUR HILARIOUS *mwaha*



























NOT, JUST GET THE FUCK OUT OF DHB! Your not funny you low life piece of shit. If you have to go on forums and say the word'fuck' to everyone. What did you just learn that word, or do you just have fucking turrets buddy. DHB doesn't need members like you, nor do we want them.
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soxpride7,Feb 20 2008
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fuck steinbrenner

Dude, does every post you make on this board have to have the word fuck in it?
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Any player that purposely sucks to get traded shouldn't be awarded MVP, no matter what he does for his new team.



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YankeeKing44,Feb 20 2008
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AHHAHAHAHHAHAHA YOUR HILARIOUS *mwaha*



























NOT, JUST GET THE FUCK OUT OF DHB! Your not funny you low life piece of shit. If you have to go on forums and say the word'fuck' to everyone. What did you just learn that word, or do you just have fucking turrets buddy. DHB doesn't need members like you, nor do we want them.

I don't think terrets works on the computer.
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