Apparently, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree as, Hank Steinbrenner, the newly appointed leader of one of the Big Apple’s most famous institutions is following in his father’s footsteps. In the midst of baseball’s current baseball steroids scandal, which prominently figures two of New York’s most famous pitchers, Steinbrenner has publicly questioned why his sport is being singled out by these investigations and why more attention isn’t being paid to the NFL.
Steinbrenner recently got off this ingenius quote. "I don't like baseball being singled out…. 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." An NFL spokesperson quickly responded that the NFL began random testing for steroids in 1990.
Twice as many?? Does that mean if 75% of major league baseball players were on the juice in the 1990s, that 150% of the NFL was also? Hank, it wasn’t the NFL that turned a blind eye to its rampant, drug problem for the sake of self-promotion. Anyone that knows sports knows THAT!
Now with all this slander love that’s floating around between Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee, can’t the NFL get a little action on this? One would think with allegations like that, the NFL could soon OWN the Yankee franchise. Perhaps Baby Steinbrenner isn’t aware that the National Football League has consistently had one of professional sports’ most strenuous drug-testing policies around. The league is also far more consistent in penalizing its players for such violations, which is more that can be said for major league baseball. Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds are currently being persecuted and having their legacies tarnished while others mentioned in a thoroughly incomplete Mitchell report are not being penalized at all??? How’s that for consistency and self-regulation.
Yes, the NFL’s players are generally larger in stature than those who play major league baseball; the sport calls for it. Perhaps if these mammoths of men sported pot-bellies instead of bulging biceps, they could have tried out for their college baseball teams. Instead these athletes opted for the NFL because… it’s a better league and a far more, exciting product.
So Hank, perhaps you should take a lesson from your father, who has mellowed out considerably over the years. Growing up a Red Sox fan, as much as I hated King George, the respect he demands in baseball is undeniable. At least we now have a new Steinbrenner to hate. In the future, try thinking before you speak. Oh, and don’t be surprised if you soon hear back from those ‘juiced up’ football players who you unwisely accused of wrongdoing. I hope that works out for ya’.
Reverend Rhythm
Since when has anyone ever heard anything sensible said by Hank Steinbrenner when it comes to the sport of baseball. He'll never be able to fill his father's shoes.
He's a caricature of an amalgam of people that've basically ruined the sport as we know it !
Ahhhh, Rev. This is what I like about you. Just jump right in and throw caution to the wind. You know those all important, excuse me, self important jurists in the Court of Public Opinion might take exception to your depiction of Bonds and Clemens here. Who cares? And can you imagine that? A Steinbrenner making a fool of himself! Have mercy!
Coach, here's my take on that. Everyone was doing it. I don't fault Bonds or Clemens as much as I fault any of the others trying to get an edge when the sport inadvertedly promoted it to recover the fans they lost when they cancelled the World Series.
If they're going to cross-examine the big two, go after and penalize everyone else as well. Personally, I don't care whether they nail them or let them slide as long as the penalties are consistent across the board.
Let me ask you this. What if a current member of the Hall of Fame came out and said he took steroids? Would they rescind his membership?
Rev - I hear you loud and clear and agree with you 100%. If MLB and th Mitchell report had stayed within the confines of Faye Vincent's request we wouldn't be going through this. But the media and the "we just have to know" sporting public needed names. Sadly, it is only the big names that are getting dragged around. As to your question. If they allow the all-time HR ball into the HOF with an asterisk painted on it...they would do anything. Yes! I believe they would because baseball is run by the biggest bunch of hypocrits on the planet. And the HOF supports them. And that would truly be a sad day! Thanks for the opportunity to spout off. Keep up the good work.
If the Red Sox hadn't won two of the last four World Series, I'd have absolutely no interest in the sport whatsoever, which is a shame since I come from a baseball family.
Nice job, Selig. Keep up the good work. With his recent contract extension, is he just trying to run the sport into the ground before he steps down?
Rev,
Great piece of work here. Baby Steinbrenner is a bigger #### than his father could have ever been. I wish they would go after the NFL in someway and see if it even compares to what went on in baseball. I highly doubt it would. Remember when I told you a while back if over half the league is juiced up is it really an unfair advantage? I still think that way and probably always will. In my mind it's like this. we know who possibly used PED's ok now let's just move on and continue to allow baseball to be on the same level as hockey... the bottom.
Nice. Deflect, deflect and deflect some more when the walls come crashing down on you. He has sunk to a new low. Of course, since I hate the Yankees, this blog is now my new fave. Well done Rev.
Young Steinbrenner should have kept his pie hole shut. The MLBPA has ensured that drugs are part of the membership's daily diet. Give all of us a break, Steinbrenner.
I've been checking with my Houston peeps.
Seems my research shows Debbie Clemens to be the kingpin of HGH in MLB. Wait a few months and Roger will rat her out as he continues his insipid denials.
Rusty the lawyer stated how desperate McNamee's camp was when they named Mrs. Clemens as a HGH user. Surprise, she said she was. This is all making me sick. The day has been long in coming and now the day has turned into a month.
Rev.
I went to every event this weekend here in New Orleans and it was a blast. Wish I had known your buddy because I could have givin him an extra V.I.P. pass to an event that was hosted by Shaq and Reggie Bush. Not to mention the other athletes and celebs that were there. I couldn't get any pics though that night from a personal camera they wasn't having that. Although I am friends with a guy who is a photographer for the Times Picayune here in NOLA. I talked to him that night and he took some pics of me and a few athletes. I should be hearing from him soon and will post the pics asap.
p.s. Jazz fest isn't to far away my friend. The Mr. Jack Daniels and a few of his ladie friends are waiting for you.
Rev...you need to party in NOLA...they haven't seen partying yet because you have not blessed them with your presence. I think Gambit would be the perfect host. Heck, I almost took him up on his offer, but you know, hubby, he nixed it. :( GO FOR ME! I want some beads!
Even when I lived in Houston in the early 90's, plenty thought Clemens was a total ####. When he coughed up a hummer for one of his High School kids, long before the green movement, plenty wrote him off as a rich bastage who would do whatever it took, legal or not. I'm rooting for jail time.
There is a totally blind segment in Texas that supports him because he's from Texas. Calgon take me away and strike Clemens down.
The reason the NFL implemented steroid tested 20 years ago was because THEY NEEDED IT 20 YEARS AGO!!! That is how far ahead of the PED curve the NFL is, and always will be. The is no practical test for HGH yet in existence. After steroid testing started in the NFL it players had allready moved on to the next wave of PEDs, which included HGH and designer steroids that were not originally detectable in urine tests. By the time a useful HGH test comes into existence NFL players will have allready moved on to the next wave of PEDs. Here in lies the rub. The science/players are always ahead of the game.
It so totally figures that when someone with some national profile FINALLY speaks up and talks about something that no one wants to admit he'll just be painted as an old kook. But we all know that he is right.
This is not just a baseball problem. It is a sports problem. It is a societal problem.
Hey Rev, nice stuff. One of the courses MLB players take when they start out is called " DUCK " . Or " How to Duck and dodge the truth". It was started with Pete Rose. The hopes are to wait out public opinion for 20 years, then the hopes of piblic perception is to please forgive them.
I'm waiting on Broblog to come in to this. Thats not good or bad, but he's the biggest Yankee fan around here.
Marcus Wiley had a GREAT line on NFL Live last night. He said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "I guess Paris Hilton isn't the only rich kid we shouldn't be listening to."
Rev,
I'm the little Devil you say, just wait my friend you havn't seen anything yet. As for not knowing what I'm getting into LOL! I am born and raised in party city, you know that little place that doesn't send you home at 2 a.m. when #### just got interesting, I can hang bro.
Lisa,
thx sweetie for the kind words. Now why didn't you just say you wanted beads. I have tons of them. Even some Fox sports beads. Best ones I have though are LSU beads but of course you can't have those. I have some really pretty long beads just say the magic word and there yours to keep.
Just another brat born into riches and power that thinks he is important because daddy is...I agree that he should shut up. He has no more right to say it than any other baseball fan, and you don't see any crazed midgets (dont know why theyre midgets in my head) trying to take over ESPN to tell the world that we must take down the evil, juiced up NFL. If the NFL is guilty of anything it is manipulation for the sake of creating intrigue, but they HAVE been addressing steroids for longer than baseball (who started yesterday I think).
Reverend Rhythm
I think that Hank is just spittin' a lot venom because he's unhappy with what's been unfolding not just around the league. But also within the Yankees' franchise. Normally before the start of Spring Training they'd have made a 'big splash' by either showing off a 'big money' signing . But they've got nothing to show for it as Santana went to their crosstown neighbor. And there's still the furore surrounding Pettite and Clemens.
Not exaclty what he'd envisioned when he and his brother took over the day to day running of the franchise from George.
Yeah, but tophat, the lack of pinstripe signings can be attributed directly to him. He's a Steinbrenner. These are the Yankees. If they want 'em, go get 'em.
It's already obvious he doesn't have the shrewdness of his daddy.
Reverend Rhythm
I'm beginning to think that Hank is neither his father or his mother's son. I think that he may well have been found under a bridge somewhere and was adopted by George and his wife.
See a couple of my most recent posts and let me know what you think as to their merits ?
That's It Mark Fire A Shot Across Someone Else's Bow !
Some Anniversary..... Was It That Long Ago ?
I mean for crying out loud, the NFL bans LEGAL supplements as well as PED's...does MLB do the same as well?
Even so, being the last guest to the party isnt always suave, especially when it is now crashing down on you. Selig's a putz and looks more and more like one every day. The Mitchell Report has taken the fans eye away from blaming him and put it squarely on a small percentage of the offenders.
Stein Jr, knows it as well. Trying to deflect to the NFL's problem is immensely pathetic. I dont remember George making excuse for his players who were caught(Giambi), or maybe I missed that.
Anyways, so maybe his pantywaist son will be the downfall of the Yankees...not w/ that payroll, but I can dream...
Hey Reverend, I have seeing your posts and your comments around, great articles bru, and I also think football is a better and a harder sport than baseball, all the way...
Turn-ons: Gator national championships ; Sushi; NBA Playoffs; A Tribe Called Quest; Women; Jack Daniels; Women who drink Jack Daniels; Women who drink Jack Daniels while eating sushi; Women who dream of more Gator national championships while eating sushi and drinking Jack Daniels during basketball season, The Red Zone Report
Turn-offs: Waking up early; The inevitable media coverage Bobby Bowden will get when he finally retires; Drama; Prejudice; Chicken liver; Work of any sort
