Cust, you scum

On Dec 13, 8:31 pm, "EBjazz" <B... RemoveThis @hole.com> wrote:
> Did he do steroids?
> Which A's players were named other than Tejada?
>


Read the list.

Jack Cust. The A's feel good story for 2007 isn't that great story
anymore. I was laughing that the supposed "feel good story for 2007"
Rick Ankeil was caught with the juice and pointed out to several
writers that Cust was the real great story for the year, and Cust is
right there with Ankeil. Should have known.
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In article <35e8a632-c921-405c-b9a6-050da9274af6
@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, thehendersons44 DeleteThis @aol.com says...
> On Dec 13, 8:31 pm, "EBjazz" <B... DeleteThis @hole.com> wrote:
> > Did he do steroids?
> > Which A's players were named other than Tejada?
> >
>
>
> Read the list.
>
> Jack Cust. The A's feel good story for 2007 isn't that great story
> anymore. I was laughing that the supposed "feel good story for 2007"
> Rick Ankeil was caught with the juice and pointed out to several
> writers that Cust was the real great story for the year, and Cust is
> right there with Ankeil. Should have known.

The problem is that not all the players listed in the report have
evidence pointing towards them to the same degree.

In the case of Paul LoDuca, you have a check, phone logs, personal
testimony from use, signed memo on team stationary thanking the
supplier. That's a pretty good case that LoDuca was using.

In the case of Jack Cust, it's essentially Larry Bigbie says that Jack
Cust once said he had used steroids.

Comically enough, the bigger the list is, the *less* important this all
becomes from an on-field standpoint. The Mitchell report catches a
pretty good chunk of baseball simply from 2 sources. Unless a single
trainer and a single clubhouse guy somehow control the world's supply of
performance-enhancing drugs, it's overwhelming likely that this is just
a fraction of the players using PEDs. The more that are using, the more
it becomes a playing field and the emphasis moves towards worrying about
the health of players, as it should be, rather than worrying about
statistics.

The really strange thing is how Bonds found his way into the report.
The report doesn't actually tackle any of the actual BALCO evidence.
For some odd reason, it's mostly statements that tend to *corroborate*
Bonds's testimony that he believed that the clear was flaxseed oil
(Harvey Shields told Mitchell that he was also led to believe that the
clear was flaxseed oil and that the cream was an arthritic balm).

--
Dan Szymborski
dan DeleteThis @baseballprimer.REMOVE.com

"A critic who refuses to attack what is bad is
not a whole-hearted supporter of what is good."
- Robert Schumann
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On Dec 15, 7:58 am, Dan Szymborski <d....DeleteThis@baseballprimer.com> wrote:
> In article <35e8a632-c921-405c-b9a6-050da9274af6
> @e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, thehenderson....DeleteThis@aol.com says...
>
> > On Dec 13, 8:31 pm, "EBjazz" <B....DeleteThis@hole.com> wrote:
> > > Did he do steroids?
> > > Which A's players were named other than Tejada?
>
> > Read the list.
>
> > Jack Cust. The A's feel good story for 2007 isn't that great story
> > anymore. I was laughing that the supposed "feel good story for 2007"
> > Rick Ankeil was caught with the juice and pointed out to several
> > writers that Cust was the real great story for the year, and Cust is
> > right there with Ankeil. Should have known.
>
> The problem is that not all the players listed in the report have
> evidence pointing towards them to the same degree.
>
> In the case of Paul LoDuca, you have a check, phone logs, personal
> testimony from use, signed memo on team stationary thanking the
> supplier. That's a pretty good case that LoDuca was using.


Interestingly, he was one of the other players I was saddened to see.
I hate the Dodgers but he was the one guy I liked (when he played
there).

Now to me, he's just scum like the rest.
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