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I found this interesting statement from Bronson Arroyo on ESPN:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4368436
Arroyo, who pitched for the Red Sox from 2003 to 2005, said he took androstenedione, which was banned in 2004, as well as amphetamines, which were banned in 2006, according to the Herald report. He said he gave up taking andro, a steroid precursor, when a rumor spread through baseball that due to lax production standards, some of it was laced with steroids.
Mandatory testing for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball began in 2004.
"Before 2004, none of us paid any attention to anything we took," he said, according to the Herald. "Now they don't want us to take anything unless it's approved. But back then, who knows what was in stuff? The FDA wasn't regulating stuff, not unless it was killing people or people were dying from it."
Arroyo said he started taking taking andro after 1998, after a season with the Pirates' Double-A affiliate. "Andro made me feel great, I felt like a monster. I felt like I could jump and hit my head on the basketball rim," he said, according to the report.
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Dan, I really think Ortiz is finished. Last year, which I believe is the year when the crackdown on steroids took hold in MLB, is the same timeframe when Papi started to lose his mojo. This year his stats don't make him eligable for AAA ball, let alone being the DH.
I haven't been to his Framinham restaurant (Steak House) but I've heard that the meat isn't very good. I'm told that they marinate it (juice-it is a better term) and spice it up hot so it appears better than it really is.
The manager at Legal Seafoods next door to Papis new restaurant told me its the same owners as the old restaurant that Ortiz is just letting them use his name.
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The funny part is everyone wants to put an 'asterisk and strip things...how about something better than that ..HOW ABOUT GIVING THE FANS ALL THEIR MONEY BACK!!!!!....who gives a crap about an 'asterisk. I know season ticket holders that spent a lot of hard earned cash to watch all these cheaters.
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The thing that gets me about Ortiz is the hypocrisy of Red Sox fans, anybody with half a brain cell would see that it was so f-ing obvious. Six years with the Twins he was a marginal player at best, never hitting more than 20 home runs. Do you really think the Twins who are the smallest of small market teams in the worst stadium in MLB yet continue to be competitive year in and year out because of player evaluation would just give up on a player like Ortiz?
Seriously, what's next. Oh its ok because everybody else was doing it? Conveniently forgetting the accusations you made about Bonds and A-Rod. Must be nice. The tests are from 03 not 04 or 07? Spare me.
OK then, lets strip the 04 championship and give it to the next best team of that year which was the Yankees...oh wait A-Rod and Giambi were on the juice well then lets strip them...and give it to the Cards..oh wait how long will it it take for Pujols name to surface?
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I understand Babe Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer.
You know, I wonder what juice David Ortiz drinks?
Red Bull
Dang.
They must be spiking it with testosterone then
He just opened a restaurant on Rt.9 in Framingham called Big Papis to great fanfare last week I wonder how this will affect business?
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I understand Babe Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer.
You know, I wonder what juice David Ortiz drinks?
Red Bull
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That's certainly true. And why was this leaked now? So much happening in Boston ... and epic collapse, Dice-K mouthing off to the Japanese press, these potentially big blockbuster trades being discussed ... and I bet it was some Yankee fan lawyer who blabbed.
The best thing about this is that Ortiz wins the game with another clutch 3 run homah !......I don't think it will affect him or the team.
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The Sox completed the deal to send Lugo to the Cards for Chris Duncan....why would they want Duncan?
From St. Louis newspaper:
"Bernie Miklasz confirmed that the Red Sox will still be responsible for the remaining $13.5 million on Lugo’s contract. It’s expected that Duncan, 27, will be assigned to Pawtucket."
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Sean McAdam is reporting that the Red Sox have traded for Adam LaRoche.
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That is spooky, when did he die?
I met a friend last for ice cream and he asked me if I read Angela's Ashes and then he mentioned MCourt , I don't
believe he knew he died?
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Getting fucking aggravated by their brutal pathetic embarrassing shit!
And the MFY can't lose!!!
Second place, here we come, and the Rays will be right at our fucking heels.
Jason Bay has turned into Tony Armas!
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SOLD Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music (Paperback) & Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce Thank You Marcus!
Still Available with Price Drop
The Complete Blue Note Book: Tribute to Alfred Lion
Toyoki Okajima (ed.), (Tokyo: Jazz Critique Special Edition, 1987 No.2 )
The cover has some wear there is a small spot where it looked like there was a price sticker at one point (not sticky though),there is a crease on back of jacket (its a paperback) but the binding is tight and the inside pages are beautiful.
This is the 2nd edition of this indispensable handbook
2 introductions by Michael Cuscuna and 1 by Ruth Lion,
complete catalogue of 10" and 12" Blue Note releases, 504 pages, iluustrations mainly b/w, about half of text in English. VG $15
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Blue Jays had two scouts in Pawtucket watching Bucholz and now the Sox are gonna bring him up to to start the first game
after the All Star break.......which will be in Toronto .....Whats Up Doc
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The Complete Blue Note Book: Tribute to Alfred Lion
Toyoki Okajima (ed.), (Tokyo: Jazz Critique Special Edition, 1987 No.2 )
The cover has some wear there is a small spot where it looked like there was a price sticker at one point (not sticky though),there is a crease on back of jacket (its a paperback) but the binding is tight and the inside pages are beautiful.
This is the 2nd edition of this indispensable handbook
2 introductions by Michael Cuscuna and 1 by Ruth Lion,
complete catalogue of 10" and 12" Blue Note releases, 504 pages, iluustrations mainly b/w, about half of text in English.
VG $15..... FREE SHIPPING IN USA
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A big night at Fenway NOMAH returns for the first time !
hope he is not injured ?......and hopefully he is in the lineup....NOMAH !!!!!
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Bump new adds and price drops
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in my world (born 1981), jackson was always a celebrity in the first place... i definitely was aware of him from the age of ten on or so (his nose and stuff) but did not really hear his music until three or four years ago (to find that i had heard some of the songs before, of course)
Well in my world (born 1962) MJ had a huge effect ,from 1970,71,72,73,74 every Christmas there would be a Jackson 5 album or two under the tree. I loved the J5 and even tried to start a fan club around the neighborhood of course not many of my friends back then were fans. I just loved the music and the fros and those clothes, these guys were on TV a lot back then I remember watching the cartoon and they even had their own variety show.
And what about the Goin' Back To Indiana TV special I have that on a boot and was surprised to see that Tito was playing all the solos ....these guys were great.
Here is a funny weird story from my youth back then in the albums they would sell buttons and posters on the inner sleeve that housed the record. So I asked my Mom and Grandfather if they would buy me this really cool poster of the J5 they were all standing looking down into the camera with these wild outfits ....so anyway my grandfather looks at me and said "you can't put this poster on your bedroom wall' and i am really confused and I am like why not?.....'Because it will give you nightmares"
Nightmares ????....these guys were my HEROES it took me years to finally figure out why he said that and what it meant.
R.I.P Michael and thanks for the great music !
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Every client I have now thinks they can shoot .....screw em.....next time I go to the Dentist i am bringing my own Novocaine!
I never understood why anyone would pay a professional photographer a cent. Until the pictures came back...
Photography would be a great business if I didn't have to take pictures.....
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I always hated that Paul Simon song.
Funny. I love it! "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" was a favorite growing up and the first album I got when I decided to explore Simon's solo albums a few years back...
I know a couple of professional photographers and they switched to digital years ago. I can imagine that they were quite happy to say goodbye to fooling with chemicals and dark rooms!
Not me I am not glad , Digital has taken the Mystery out of photography.
Every client I have now thinks they can shoot .....screw em.....next time I go to the Dentist i am bringing my own Novocaine!
Results speak louder than words, though. Yes, every asshole with a camera thinks he can shoot. But he can't. Not really. Put his amateur effort next to your professional effort and the difference will be clear. I don't think professional photographers will be supplanted...
I agree .....BUT , (economy aside) I just bid on a job with a medical device company where they were threatening the designer with doing the photography themselves!
This would not be the first time they did some photography in the back of their wherehouse a year ago. She reminded them how the shots came out which was not so great and they finally agreed to our price and hopefully we will do the job. The point being is that these clients can now reasonably buy a digital camera which will give them a 30 meg file and then have some one download and fix it in photoshop.
It's totally different from the days of E-6 and 4x5 cameras clients were totally at our mercy , I mean they had no clue how it all worked.
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I always hated that Paul Simon song.
Funny. I love it! "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" was a favorite growing up and the first album I got when I decided to explore Simon's solo albums a few years back...
I know a couple of professional photographers and they switched to digital years ago. I can imagine that they were quite happy to say goodbye to fooling with chemicals and dark rooms!
Not me I am not glad , Digital has taken the Mystery out of photography.
Every client I have now thinks they can shoot .....screw em.....next time I go to the Dentist i am bringing my own Novocaine!
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Red Sox have 500th consecutive sellout tonight. A record by a long shot (old record was Cleveland at 455).
That's a record the Yankees will never break. Also last night Bobby Orr came out of the Green Monster to
greet Jason Bay .......#4.....Bobby Orr......the greatest hockey player to ever live and my personal favorite athlete of all time!
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BUMP , new additions , Price drop on Byrd Box
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7 straight wins against the Yanks !!!!.....The Yankees don't even look like the Yankees anymore something weird about them.
Why would Girardi take A-Rod out of the game when he walked in the 9th? He is not the worse base runner and if the Yanks had tied the game you lose the best player on your team.
MLB 2009 Season
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Red Sox are very close in a deal for Victor Martinez and Bucholz and Bard are not part of the deal
looks like Masterson ....aaarrgghhh...I love Masterson....is Martinez that good?