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NY Daily News: Ankiel linked to HGH

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by sportshack06, Sep 7, 2007.

  1. boots

    boots New Member

    I understand they've done a lot of work and the info was leaked to them. I'm not saying they're throwing shit to a wall but I'm holding off convicting Ankiel of anything until I hear his side of this story.
     
  2. jgmacg

    jgmacg Guest


    It's a widely held opinion, boots. I'm not alone in holding it. Your reputation here is wide and deep, and entirely of your own making.
     
  3. boots

    boots New Member

    Reputation? What are you talking about? You have yet to explain why I am what's wrong with this board and more importantly, you keep straying off the topic.
    Look, I'm not trying to be difficult. Just say why I'm what's wrong with this board and try to stay on the topic which is Ankiel.
     
  4. jgmacg

    jgmacg Guest

    Do you want me to list each attribute separately, or would a round-up of the highlights suffice?
     
  5. indiansnetwork

    indiansnetwork Active Member

    Lesson one boots, never question a New York news (trash) paper because they are never wrong. Secondly, Ankiel could never have done this on his own because that is impossible. Jealousy, witch hunt?
     
  6. boots

    boots New Member

    Does it make a difference? Just say what you have to say and be done with it. Then with some help, we can still keep this thread bout Ankiel.
     
  7. hockeybeat

    hockeybeat Guest

    So the NYDN is trash? Can someone make the same comments about the Plain-Dealer?

    Where has anyone posted or written anything that resembles jealousy with regards to Ankiel? Is it possible that he broke the law and hard-working reporters followed the paper trail? Or is it easier to believe that the media is out to kill your athletic heroes?
     
  8. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Now the next step is to determine if he's using now. Without that finding, I take his current season at face value.
     
  9. boots

    boots New Member

    Maybe its a combination of both but the story is missing teeth. I've never been one to follow the herd mentality and I'm not going to with knee jerk reaction to the story.
     
  10. hockeybeat

    hockeybeat Guest

    What we know, according to the story, is that he accepted HGH in 2005. What we also know is that it wasn't banned by baseball, but it was breaking the law.
     
  11. boots

    boots New Member

    And that's really the story, that he broke the law. It's like getting a ticket that's three years old. It doesn't have an relevance to what he's doing for the Cards today.
     
  12. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Whether or not it was banned by baseball is beside the point for a lot of people. The players knew it had a stigma attached to it and it was widely considered a no-no by fans. ESPECIALLY by 2005, when PED gotcha stories were becoming commonplace and there was plenty of outrage about drug use. If it is simply a matter of it not having been banned by the rules, guys would fess up about what they did, rather than lying. They'd have no reason to have used surreptitiously, while lying their asses off about it--i.e. the way people who feel guilty about something behave.

    The "it wasn't officially banned" stuff always sounds to me like the guy they let free because he wasn't read his Miranda rights. It doesn't mean he didn't knowingly do something others considered wrong.
     
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