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Originally Posted by Saltheart
My theory is that Macnamee probably indicated he had info on "big players" to get some deal for immunity. When all he really had was a 1 shot usage by petite with circumstances that may show medical nescessity , the immunity deal was in jeapody . he had to come up with something else so opted to make the stuff up about Roger. That was big enough new news to get him his immunity deal.
Anyway , that's how i see it right now.
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What about this scenario, though it's hard to believe that MLB is this smart after a review of most of the circumstances.
Could McNamee, a former NYC cop, have been a NARC planted by the feds, with the blessing of MLB due to the Union's blatant lack of cooperation,
after the Sosa and McGuire thing had reached its full potential and brought Baseball back ~as it was designed to do? Since the barn door had been flung so wide opened, how else would MLB be able to rein in what they had given the old winkwink/nudgenudge to in the first place? They were certainly being stonewalled by the player's union and handcuffed by their own complicitness during any CBA negotiations then, and subsequent talks leading us up to the current situation. Who better to reveal the wide and reaching scope of rampant Steroid and HGH use than someone on the inside, someone who could get to the likes of Radomski, Dr Horsejuice, and Players X, Y, and Z? MLB prolly knew all the names and even had dates and information, but had no way to implicate them under the protection of the players' cba.
Is it possible that MLB was trying to put a stop to this fiasco since Ueberoth? Former Olympic Chairman, home of the most stringent drug testing policies in the world, hired to "clean-up" bissball? Only now MLB has a real problem.....................
Not just sluggers were juicing, but pitchers were getting into HGH and marquis ones at that!! Marginal players were taking anabolics to 'make it to tha bigs', yer Palmeiros and yer Tejadas began juicing to enhance their game and boost their stats ~hell, everyone else was doing it, your Petites and your Byrds were HGHing to make their next start in the rotation without feeling their age or the strains of Aug/Sept/Oct, and then there are the superstars that didn't want everyone else cheating to catch them even though their natural talents still would have put them well past the lesser lights. And this is where Roger the Dodger and Barroids the Bum stick needles into such fine specimens of athleticism and ruin their already stellar careers. Butt, pun intended, hey! It's not their fault, they were just following suit!! HOGWARSH!!!
The real problem with HGH, Larry, is that there is no eye test or conclusive blood test for it and that it probably is going to be revealed as a good thing in the long run. I mean if it can help granny heal quicker and stronger from her hip replacement, why not make it available to our finest athletes under strict guidlines as something better and far more effective than cortisone that is used solely for rehab and recovery ~roughly the same purpose as the aforementioned cortisone? So long as its available for all players, what's the big woop?
Lastly, does anyone else think that a former NYPD investigator and his team of lawyers is gonna be out thunk by this Gunslinger from Katy and his 'teem' of Country bumpkins? It will be very interesting to, hopefully, hear the McNamee Camp's tape. Because if this guy
is a NARC and MLB is on the ball here, then I find it hard to believe that Roger's 17 minutes are the only minutes that were shared between him and his buddy Mac. And if McNamee is working with the feds and MLB, then it is no coincidence that he was found by the Mitchell Investigation; quite the contrary, it will have been a carefully crafted plan to rid MLB of its most sordid and still festering wound, in the history of The Game.
Anybody else looking for Charlie Hustle's name on next year's ballot
?