We're still not clear if #Ryan Braun is being suspended for this year or last year. As far as we know,baseball's still weak drug testing has even suspended anyone this year after only a handful were suspended last year. We see the Braun suspension as more of a political play by Selig and Co to try to scare other players by suspending one of the biggest names for something he did LAST YEAR! Old news. Get the many culprits still out there cheating and ruining the game! Two of the last three World Series winners got there through because of PEDs.
There are a number of players who have been suspended and come back with no scorn, such as Bartolo Colon, who is doing as well as ever. Not sure that lots of fans really care about PEDs... though many do like us.
Even though good 'ol #Bud Selig and others think they're cleaning up the PED mess, testing has hardly changed, as we explain here @ http://wheredidyougojoedimaggio.blogspot.com with probably as many players still using PEDs as last year. One must look to telltale signs beyond beyond just homeruns as we explain.
Selig, who we like as a person, is nearing retirement and certainly wants to go out on a positive note. Braun and Biogenesis is old news... What's being done about rampant PED use this year?
There are many more players out there who aren't being caught due to ineffective drug testing as per none other than #Victor Conte, in our opinion...http://wheredidyougojoedimaggio.blogspot.com/
Commissioner of Baseball, #Bud Selig did a number of interviews during the All Star break, including appearing on Late Night with David Letterman. He expressed is pleasure in how , in his opinion, how improved #drug testing has been cleaned up baseball 'more than ever' and how attendance has been up, except this year, due to a lot of 'rainouts,' according to Selig
We counter this by asking Mr Selig, 'How many players were caught this year? '
Zero is the answer
Mr Selig, we like you . Youre an old school guy like us and want to see baseball cleaned up but
We don't think testing has improved . Last year at least you nabbed four or maybe seven including a few marginal/minor league players. And we know there are still plenty of users especially with the new synthetic testosterone which can be out of one's system in hours . Nothing has changed about this with your drug testing. Yes, you test for HGH now, but your tests still are not fool proof as even #Victor Conte explained to us earlier this year (which can be found in these pages)where players can have testosterone out of their system within hours - and usually players are given ample notice prior to testing.
And just how many tests have been done this year? Maybe one? None. Haven't heard of any or anyone getting caught. You and the players union agreed on a minimum of only one mid-season test, which is the only real change, along with the HGH test, in the past few years.
You say you've tested players over and over - primarily in the minor leagues
yet nobody's been caught - not surprising as the drug tests have not improved, other than
the addition of the HGH test. You say the owners are not to be blamed , despite teams like the
Giants, who seem to repeat the same 'mistakes' over and over (four players caught and suspended in three years - Cabrera, Mota twice, Guillen ) which enabled them to go to the World Series. Without those players the Giants would not have even made it to the Series.
yet nobody's been caught - not surprising as the drug tests have not improved, other than
the addition of the HGH test. You say the owners are not to be blamed , despite teams like the
Giants, who seem to repeat the same 'mistakes' over and over (four players caught and suspended in three years - Cabrera, Mota twice, Guillen ) which enabled them to go to the World Series. Without those players the Giants would not have even made it to the Series.
We have outlined how certain players on one team in particular have continued to play over their career numbers - and this for several well beyond their prime having had career years last year, ie Scutaro, Sandoval, Blanco, Pagan, Vogelsong, Castilla, Mijares. Yes, we're talking about the San Francisco Giants here, who have been leaders in the field of PEDs, in our opinion. Certainly many other teams are implicit as well. The Giants are down now but think where they might be without a little help from their 'friends.'
Last year Melky Cabrera single handedly made the difference in bringing the Giants to the World Series. Scutaro, a mid season acquistion , picked up where Cabrera left off, post suspension,. with a unlikely .350 average since coming to the Giants (after never hitting over .299). That's but one example. You can see more examples elsewhere in these pages. (Our main site was inexplicably removed by Google/? earlier in the year and this one may, too, soon, so read it while you can). At least four other Giants have suddenly been hitting 30 points or more above their career averages or pitching well under their career ERAs.
We are pointing all this out to help you, Mr. Selig. The numbers are there. We know it's hard dealing with the Baseball Players Union but we must 'tell it like it is,' as Howard Cosell liked to say. All the research is
available on the internet. Just look at pitcher FX velocity and other stats and hitters higher averages and
lower strikeout totals, indicative of PED usage - as compared to previous seasons and career numbers.
Attendance in baseball HAS been up in recent years as there's more population in the country and the many new ballparks are magnets for attendance the first few years plus a new era of promotion and extraneous peripheral activities and free tickets given away. Just because homeruns aren't up as in the Bonds era, things are different now. Look at Melky Cabrera, for example. Low homerun numbers but high average and RBIs. Different PEDs and emphasis today. It's no longer as much about homeruns as hand-eye coordination and not striking out . With more balls in play there will be more hits.
So, you're an old school guy, Mr. Selig. Good, so our we, though we have adapted to email and use of the computer, which we find critical in doing our research. A little worried when we read that people in important places, like yourself, and Homeland Security Chief Napolitano don't use email. http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-16/mlb-s-bud-selig-proudly-joins-the-executive-no-email-crowd Hope we've been of some help in your efforts to stamp our drugs in baseball. That's why we write this
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