The Giambi Mess

No precedent to set, there's nothing to do.

And if by precedent you mean having people keep quiet about steroids, well, MLB has done that for years.

 

The "admission" you're talking about would never hold up before an arbitrator even if there were penalties for steroid use in baseball at the time. So why bother trying to go down the road of disciplinary action or contract voiding? That's just something the Daily News floated, apparently without much thought as to the reality of the situation. Why should MLB react to absurd rumors?

Re: Barry, I don't buy into the idea that the Commissioner has to be there or shouldn't be there. It's up to him. I don't know of anyone who takes their cue from Bud Selig as to how to react. The record will be the record and people will think what they want to think about it. A home run isn't the same now as it was in the '60s (with or without PEDs) and a home run in the '60s isn't the same as a home run in the '20s.

 

Buster Olney, among others, has made a good point about Giambi ... if he's really sincere in his apology about "the stuff," Giambi ought to defer some of the money from a contract awarded based on juiced numbers.

 

Try sneaking that one past Don Fehr and Gene Orza.

 

Not saying it's plausible that it would happen. Just saying if he's sincere, he ought to suggest it regardless.

 

Why suggest it if there's not a snowball's chance in hell for it to happen? It'd be an exercise in futility, methinks.

We agree to gentlemanly disagree, Ozzie.

 

I heard Nightengale interviewed on the radio. He said something about Giambi telling him there were certain other things he wanted to say... things he would say at "a later time."

I wonder what that's all about.

 

maybe that "later time" would be when he's traded away or let go from the Yankees.

 

Why?
Contract freely arrived at by both sides.
The notion that Giambi "owes" anyone anything is laughable.

 

Awesome. Totally awesome.

 

I am now hearing that Giambi's additional confession will involve hiding kittens in the bullpen tarps and using them for batting practice.

'I shouldn't have done that stuff,' he told reporters.

 

PETA is investigating a spate of cruel kitten deaths (actually SportsJournalists.com for some reason is the focus of the investigation), so Jason isn't at liberty to discuss this yet.