melky cabrera

the daily news in new york is really pounding this guy.
but i guess he deserves it.

maybe he can come back to the dr for a while and ride the choo choo train?
all aboard..
cant do any thing with out cheating can u?

Wow

Yes!!!! Keep catching them, every one. Invalidate his contract via the morals clause. MLB needs to take one one of the guys to court as a sample case for invalidating these contracts through breach of the morals clause. Make them broke, that will stop 'em and let's take our national game back.

Dumbassessssssss

And yet the Dominican people still love to hold up athletes as role models.

Sad.

Although the court of public opinion holds these guys temporarily responsible and guilty, the rewards out weigh the risk.
First time offender gets 50 days suspension.
Bartolo Colon a 39 year old making 2,000,000 per year. He made over one million this year.
For him, its a good paycheck and he might sign again next year.
Melky, although a real idiot for his actions, will still get paid big money with his next contract.
Not as much as if he didn't get caught, but that was his choice.
For most fans, they accuse and criticize these jerks when they are on the other team. However, if they are your team, you look the other way.
Watch, the Red Sox will sign Melky.

Written by: devin11, 22 Aug 2012 9:20 PM
From: United States, The Greatest City

Yes!!!! Keep catching them, every one. Invalidate his contract via the morals clause. MLB needs to take one one of the guys to court as a sample case for invalidating these contracts through breach of the morals clause. Make them broke, that will stop 'em and let's take our national game back.

"Make them broke, that will stop 'em and let's take our national game back."

Back to when?

Major League Baseball: Has it Always Been Corrupt?

By alton rex


In the heart of every sports fan is a kid. A kid who played one or more sports, or wanted to. A kid who dreamed of becoming part of the orchestrated ballet team sports can become when many souls act as a single organism.

I was a kid like that.

One of my most powerful memories is the first time I tried out for the 3 & 2 team sponsored in the Waldo area by Hunt Electric. I was pudgy kid who didn't run very well or swing a huge bat,

but I was pretty good catcher who could make the throw to second base like a cannon. I could hit the same spot one foot to the right field side of the bag every time.

When they cut me on last day of tryouts, I wept big, deep, heart and soul shaking tears from the deepest part of me. I'd never worked harder or wanted anything more in my life. And I loved baseball from that day forward.

I learned to love baseball because I'd learned how hard it is, how lucky you have to be (even if you're good) to play the game at the highest levels. And I'd learned how to see the ballet it can be, and to respect it when it is ballet. Few teams reach that level. It takes players who love the game as much as I did to play it so well it looks and feels like ballet.

You have to understand baseball the way a player does it in order to love it completely.

If you don't know a batter's tendencies, or a pitchers weaknesses; it's impossible to understand why the fielders shift to certain places o

This doping sh**t makes us Dominican look weak....

it's impossible to understand why the fielders shift to certain places on certain pitches or in certain situations. Or for that matter, any other number of subtle nuances that make the game what it is.

Ah... but once you do understand the nuances, it becomes possible to love the game in ways the casual observer cannot. Like the way Cookie Rojas used to move into the hole before a batter ever started to swing, and then catch the ball off the first bounce in a full leaping pirouette, casually starting the double-play with an easy toss to Frank White.

That's the way I loved baseball.

That is, that's how I loved it until 600 or so players and owners saw fit to cancel a World Series because they couldn't figure out how to split up a billion dollar pie.

What a disgrace. I haven't watched a Major League Baseball game since.

I used to be able to tell you every team any Major Leaguer played for. Now, when ESPN starts talking baseball, I change the channel.

Not in protest or anger, though it started that way, but from boredom.

I wasn't the only one to leave baseball after the strike. Many fans were outraged, and the game suffered huge problems with live gate attendance and television ratings.

Until they "juiced the ball."

From the first time I heard the term "juiced the ball" I thought it an odd expression to describe a ball batters could hit further. Looking back, it makes me wonder how many players were already "juiced" before MLB juiced the ball.

Even more disturbing is I knew immediately what the term meant, and so did everyone else.

So, MLB juiced the ball to promote higher scoring in games hoping to improve fan interest and attendance proportionally. Simultaneously, several players starting hitting home runs with greater frequency than they ever had before. Canseco, McGwire, Sosa, and of course, Barry Bonds.

When McGwire broke Roger Maris's record for home runs in a single season,

he and Sosa's race to break that record were credited with 'The Restoration of Major League Baseball."

What a crock it all turned out to be.

Recently, the news of yet another (cough) superstar (cough, cough) baseball player came to light. Alex Rodriguez confessing to use of steroids during the 2003 season when he, among other things won the league MVP award.

That news should have outraged me, but all it did was inspire me to reflect on my attitude about MLB since the strike. And I reached an incredible realization.

Major League Baseball has ALWAYS BEEN CORRUPT.

Now before you trot out the firing squad, listen to my argument.

Baseball has always been fickle about which cheating it tolerates and which it does not, at least as far back as the Chicago Black Sox scandal. Players, including some who would have made it into Baseball's Hall of Fame were banned from the game for life in that deal, including one who never took a dime or did anything to throw a game or the ser

including one who never took a dime or did anything to throw a game or the series. MLB hammered those guys.

Yet time after time, MLB overlooks other forms of cheating.

Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson was notorious for throwing a spitter—and has even been quoted as saying: "As long as pitchers pitch, they're going to load the ball." MLB has turned a blind eye to this kind of cheating for years.

Manny Sosa was caught red-handed using a corked bat. And he's not the only one who's been caught red-handed either. Again, MLB does nothing.

No fines, no suspensions, no comment for certain kinds of cheating.

Cut the ball, load it with Vaseline from the dollop on the back of your head, smear pine tar all the way up the barrel past the logo, nobody cares. Obliterate the back line of the batters box so you can stand further back than the rules allow, and get an extra nanosecond to read the pitch. Slide into a tag with your cleats so high it injures the baseman so bad he misses games

Fine, fine, that's "all part of the game."

Crapola.

The simple truth is MLB does not now, and has never deserved our respect or our money. They're as complicit in the state of the game as any player, and the men who were entrusted to guarantee the integrity of the game have not only violated their sacred trust, they have raped it with their indifference.

Let's not forget the role of the almighty dollar in all of this either. As television revenues started to rise in baseball, 35 or 40 greedy old men flatly refused to share the wealth with their players. Resulting in the strike that drove me from the game forever.

Then the players union made demands based on percentages of revenues, and pretty soon owners had to build new temples for the games so they could sell seat licenses, and sky boxes and naming rights. Nowadays, blue collar family men cannot afford bleacher seats to take their son to a game on a weekday afternoon.

What a shame. A terrible, terrible shame."


Baseball has been and will continue to be run for the profit motive. As long as profits and thus individual interests are at the heart of the matter, individuals will follow their interests and not some "imagined purity of the game nonsense"

As the HOF pitcher Gibbson said:


Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson was notorious for throwing a spitter—and has even been quoted as saying:

"As long as pitchers pitch, they're going to load the ball."

Some people get it.

Guillermo Mota, Milky Cabrera aka "Leche" and Bartolo Colon aka "Culon", all three players are Dominican who got suspended this year for doping what a shame.....Weak Weak Weak. ESTUPIDOS... Cheating in our blood!!!

Jocks have no real value to the human world, once they turn pro. No different than rap trash.

"some people get it"

Yes and some others insist on defending cheating trash. There will always be adversity and scandal in all competitive venues. However, the mythical proportions that were used during the latest and greatest of all baseball scandals should not be swept under via the guise of "there has always been corruption". That's just ridiculous, there are absorbable detriments but the steroids era went far beyond all previous scandals in making a complete mockery of the game. A shop lifter does not get the same court sentence as a murderer, please stop making it seem as those two are the same, it just plain preposterous. I'm still amazed how some people get a pass from you when they are proven cheaters and others that seek transparent legal remedy are vilified. It's pretty obvious where you set the bar of legitimacy and corruption, it depends on who is doing the cheating.

Some people do get it but they just insist against validity anyway and I understand just why.

Cycling does it better. In a sport mired with doping and other cheating abuses, they know how to get legitimacy back into their sport. They care that their brand be respected and that the cheaters get their deserved outcome. Lance Armstrong was just banned, FOR LIFE of competing in regulated cycling events. His record 7 Tour de France titles have been expunged from the record books!!!! He is even barred from receiving credentials to events as a team owner. But wait, that's not all, the sponsoring companies and even the US Government is going to sue for their money back!!!!! He is now going to face what all cheaters should, public disgrace and financial ruin by way of losing all the money that he profited as a result of cheating. Only in the MLB can you cheat and make huge sums of money from the benefit of using an unfair advantage and then get to keep the money. In what other endeavor are you allowed to keep the money after being found to have earned that money through cheating.

"Only in the MLB can you cheat and make huge sums of money from the benefit of using an unfair advantage and then get to keep the money. In what other endeavor are you allowed to keep your money after being found to have earned that money through cheating."


Devin1,

But here's where you are dead wrong: it's not only the MLB, amigo! Do you know how much drugs and PEDS have influenced the game of FOOTBALL? Hugely! Many of the guys who now reside in the Football HOF that played during the 1970s and into the recent modern age have used PEDS and some really strong stuff. Does the story of Lyle Martin Alzado (April 3, 1949 – May 14, 1992) ring a bell?

Alzado was one of the first major US sports figures to admit to using anabolic steroids. In the last years of his life, as he battled against the brain tumor that eventually caused his death, Alzado asserted that his steroid abuse directly led to his fatal illness. According to some reports, Alzado was using natural growth hormone

According to some reports, Alzado was using natural growth hormone, harvested from human corpses, as opposed to synthetic growth hormones. However, shortly before his death, Alzado recounted his steroid abuse in an article in Sports Illustrated,

“ I started taking anabolic steroids in 1969 and never stopped. It was addicting, mentally addicting. Now I'm sick, and I'm scared. Ninety percent of the athletes I know are on the stuff. We're not born to be 300 lb (140 kg) or jump 30 ft (9.1 m). But all the time I was taking steroids, I knew they were making me play better. I became very violent on the field and off it. I did things only crazy people do. Once a guy sideswiped my car and I beat the hell out of him. Now look at me. My hair's gone, I wobble when I walk and have to hold on to someone for support, and I have trouble remembering things. My last wish? That no one else ever dies this way.

So where do you begin? Again, remember what the guy above said about the inner child that wished he could get to the Big Show said.

"In the heart of every sports fan is a kid. A kid who played one or more sports, or wanted to. A kid who dreamed of becoming part of the orchestrated ballet team sports can become when many souls act as a single organism.

I was a kid like that."

The thing is that Sports ARE a Big time money Machine. Profits run the show. And everyone is up to their eyeballs with the stench. From the "amateur nature of" modern College Football and Basketball. It's all business.

Or do you really think they are into the "Student-Athlete" quest?

It would be silly to suggest that all illegal activity can be taken out of any competitive venue, their will always be those who want to recieve their fruits and benefits through cheating. There will always be those who blindly defend them as, so long as it fits the ulterior motive of that defense. Money and fame will always motivate people with lesser values and character, that's obvious. However, is it TOO MUCH to ask that when people are found guilty of illegal activity, whether it be on their taxes or embezzling public/private funds or doping, that the money be taken back? Is that too much much to ask that the acquired financial gains and goods be taken from the cheating low life's? Is that too rigid that people be made to pay for their crimes or illegal behavior?

Devin1,

De nuevo. What have you been seeing these past years from the Wall Street crowd? The bankers? The politicians? You remind me of that scene from the God-Father when Key tells Michael Corleone: "Senators and presidents don't have men killed. ...

But like Key perhaps you too will lose your naivete. Good discussing matters in a friendly give and take, devin1.

"In the heart of every sports fan is a kid. A kid who played one or more sports, or wanted to. A kid who dreamed of becoming part of the orchestrated ballet team sports can become when many souls act as a single organism."

That feeling should be felt only by people who EARN the right through playing clean. There are kids that dream of being astronauts, should we let them on the space shuttle even though they dropped out of Junior High School just because they really, really wanted it really, really bad?

Atabey,
What happens to these bankers and politicians that are caught of committing fraud or other illegal activity? They are arrested and jailed, no matter how much influence or money they may have. Certainly not everyone has or will be caught but the ones that are get sent to jail and are not allowed to keep the illegally gotten goods.

Football has their cheaters as well but they don't have guaranteed contracts so any team can set a player loose at any time for any reason and not be liable for their salaries, unlike base ball. I agree that you made a good point but it's still a far different dynamic.

But like Key perhaps you too will lose your naivete. Good discussing matters in a friendly give and take, devin1.


It's a pleasure to discuss matters with you as well Atabey and thanks for your time and engagement.
Perhaps you will lose your sense of duty to those who are not worthy of your efforts.

Does anyone see a trend here for DR baseball players? Sad state of affairs for DR players.

However, the game of baseball has been as corrupt as any major professional sport since the beginning of time; from the spit ball, to corked bats, from Jim Palmer, to Sosa and McGuire, to Roger Clements and Jose Cansaeco.......throw in a little Barry Bonds and Pete Rose and you have an old-people's home for unsavory and former major leaguers. Bud-lite Selig has been the worse thing to ever happen to major league baseball. The once proud Amerian Pasttime, is exactly, that, past its time! Too much money for drug induced and juiced players makng ba-jillions of dollars off of a once treasured game. The aforementioned players have all contributed to diminish this once proud sport. Don't care to watch the game anymore! If they get a real commissioner, maybe they can clean the game up. But sort of doubt it. Once the horse is out of the barn it is very hard to get it back!

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Devin we all know he is a jerk .....but just baseball and Pete Rose ? ...is that the way it's played?...In other words when Yogi dies its over?