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The first release numbers for All-Star Game balloting was released yesterday for the National League and four Mets are leading in the yearly popularity contest. Jose Reyes, David Wright, Paul Lo Duca, and Carlos Beltran lead at their respective positions, with Beltran as the leading vote-getter in the National League across all positions. Reyes and Wright made their first appearances at the "Midsummer Classic" last season, while Lo Duca is a four-time All Star and Beltran is a three-time All-Star. The 78th All-Star Game will be played in San Francisco on July 10th, home of Barry Bonds, who trails Beltran in outfield voting. AL vote tallies will be announced later today.- If you like your baseball juiced up (who doesn't?), Shea is the place to be tonight. Not only is Barry Bonds in town, but pitcher Guillermo Mota returns from a 50-game suspension for using a performance-enhancing drug. Mota, acquired from Cleveland last August, was 3-0 with a 1.00 ERA in 18 appearances for the Mets. The Mets are welcoming back the 34 year-old reliever with open arms. Keep in mind one difference between Bonds and Mota, only one actually failed a drug test.
- Fans of the Yankees and nice weather are in for a treat - Pinstripes in the Park. Tonight in Bryant Park, they can watch the Bronx Bombers fight to get out of last in the AL East against the Toronto Blue Jays. Admission is free (though not guaranteed) and the first 3,000 fans get a free blanket. There will be beer for purchase as well as other concessions. You can't bring alcohol, glass bottles, chairs, or pets (sorry, canine Yankee fans). The lawn opens at 5:30 and gametime is 7:05. There is also a Yankees Legends autograph session from 6-7:30. Scheduled to appear are Roger Clemens, Tino Martinez, Dave Winfield, Joe Girardi, and Whitey Ford.
Quick Hits: All Star Voting; Mota Back; Yankee Watching
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I call Bonds "Steroids" - so if a home run is hit by the drugs container known as Barry Bonds, I would say, "Steroids got a home run last night." This way you are speaking the truth! He should be banned from baseball forever and have everything he has done wiped from the record books. Same deal with Mark McGuire and all the other juicers.
Or, if you don't get to catch a current and ex-steroid user tonight or tomorrow, Jason Giambalco will be back in town shortly. And those Yankees really need a shot in the arm right about now.
Babe Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer
Hank Aaron did it with talent and class
B*nds will do it courtesy of THG and modafinil
I know it will never happen - but how awesome would it be if whoever catches Bonds home run-record ball... tossed it back to the field. I think that would be the greatest thing to ever happen to baseball.
As some what of a statement about suspicion of B*nds guilt, commissioner Selig and Hank Aaron have both refused to be in attendance whenever B*nds breaks Aaron's hr record..
Jason Giambalco
Sweet.
if whoever catches Bonds home run-record ball... tossed it back to the field
Yeah but would you want to go through the rest of your life being known as "that retard that threw away a million bucks"?
Are all those suckers who goto Bryant Park tonigh to watch the game gonna riot when the yankkes lose again?
If you think Ruth and all the others weren't taking anything they could get their hands on the give themselves a little extra pep, you're a moron. Uppers have been in baseball since baseball was invented, be it caffeine or amphetamines.
In the 20's and 30's you used to be able to buy amphetamines over the counter as a nasal inhaler called Benzedrine (aka Bennies) and it was widely regarded as a miracle cure-all and as openly used as aspirin.
As far as baseball was concerned, it was as commonplace as jockstraps and chewing tobacco and EVERYONE did it as recently as the late 90's early 00's when this whole issue started to blow up.
All your favorite players, be they past legends or present, have done SOMETHING. For example, you think Cal Ripken played all those games without taking something extra other than his vitamins and Wheaties to keep himself from keeling over? All of you Bonds, McGuire, Giambi etc. haters are just a bunch of hypocrites, plain and simple.
I really don't think you can make a case that drinking coffee is just like doing steriods..
I'm talking about AMPHETAMINES, dipstick.
Hormones, while we're at it, were well known and also widely used back then. Synthetic hormones were invented in the 1930's too. The fact is, for as long as there have been competitive sports and some semblance of medical science, there have been athletes using the most and the best of what medical science has had to offer at the time. Ruth and Aaron and the others, were undeniably on "stuff". It just can't be proven and they are so well loved and respected that no one will ever want to.