Batgirl neglected to post this article from the PiPress about the Twins' reactions to the steriod to-do, but, as Goober says, a lot of it is pretty priceless:
While the trend of steroid use in baseball is a fairly recent phenomenon spanning the past decade or so, by most accounts, it seems to have largely sidestepped the Twins' organization. Twins physician Dan Buss, who conducts player physicals during spring training, said he doesn't recall signs of use among players he examined during that span."Probably very few people (with the Twins) have been steroid users," he said. "In baseball, I don't think steroids, other than in a power-hitter role, are really an effective drug, and most people understand that. Historically, we haven't had a lot of power hitters."
And who knew Kyle Lohse was our rep now? Better than Lyle, that's for sure...
Posted by Batgirl at December 6, 2004 06:28 PMIts cuz we dont cheat.
Posted by: Sasha at December 6, 2004 06:50 PMI guess with President Santana, VP Nathan, Secretary of Defense Hunter and Chairman Mauer, we now have Representative Lohse. Weird.
Posted by: Sammi at December 6, 2004 08:19 PMDear Bat-Girl,
I renew my allegation that many Twins are using performance enhancing substances. Joe Mauer is, in fact, on at least the Clear(asil), and Terry Mulholland is rubbing the (sports)Cream all over his pitching arm. Not to mention the red beans (and rice) I saw Lew Ford with at a local Popeyes.
But in all seriousness, when it comes to steroids, I submit there is no cleaner team than my Pale Hose. Not only are they clean as a whistle, they actually wanted to refuse the drug tests so that they would be counted as "positive" in order to raise the total level of "positive" tests above 5% in order to make drug testing mandatory. See http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2634
Now that's a proactive, anti-steroids stance.
-Shoeless Joe
I heard Lohse got stuck with the job after Hocking was no longer with us. But now since Castro just might be Hocking, should he be the rep?
Posted by: Stacy at December 6, 2004 09:55 PMThanks for the heads-up, Batgirl.
First -- I have been thinking a lot lately about how homerun numbers have gone up around the league, but not for our guys. Perhaps we should be glad about all of those years when no Twin hits 30, when the league leaders are bombing away three times as often as our "power" hitters.
The body types make some sense of it. Before this mess, the last guy (non-Twin) I remember having a really great home-run year was Cecil Fielder for the Tiggers. Not a roidy body. Harmon Killebrew looks downright dainty next to some of these guys. (I know, I know. It's the "workout regime.") Twins sluggers tend to be of the loveable and gooey kind (Hrbek -- who was still a terrific fielder -- and LeCroy), or the sweet swinger with realistic arms and shoulders in relation to not-tiny butt-hip areas (Gaetti, Hunter). I for one, am happy. I would take Griffey or Aaron over Bonds or Caminiti any day. And I think the Twins organization has done that. Cheers.
Second: Lohse as Rep? 'Cause they were looking for someone calm and balanced? Or is this sort of like the Barbie back-pack thing, and gets worn by whomever the big kids decide to haze?
Posted by: hrunting at December 7, 2004 07:49 AMBG and Skorch,
Nobody likes a braggart.
Solemnly yours,
YankeeFan
Whoops, got Skorch on the brain...(sorry Skorch)
That's Shoeless Joe -- for the braggart thing... oh never mind.
YankeeFan
Posted by: YankeeFan at December 7, 2004 08:18 AMOn another (hopefully more coherent) note, you Minnesotans really know how to take action:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1940225
The overwhelming number of you that complained really moved the TV station to take action.
YankeeFan
P.S. Yes, that's sarcasm :)
Posted by: YankeeFan at December 7, 2004 09:06 AM"Some players with long tenures with the same club, like Minnesota's Brad Radke and Corey Koskie and St. Louis' Matt Morris, could see their times in those cities come to an abrupt end at midnight. " From Yahoo! Sports-MLB
True? What's the feeling in Bat World? Are we gonna get this done?
Posted by: Say Rah at December 7, 2004 09:07 AMYankeeFan: The incident happened late into overtime on an already late-starting game on the west coast. Hardly anyone was still awake over here, thus the low number of complaints. Besides, it's pretty much expected by Sprewell at this point. He's officially become the Twin Cities' new Randy Moss. As for the reported seven-second delay they said they'd be using now on Wolves games, I heard my fair share of certain four letter words during tonight's game, so maybe seven seconds isn't quite enough.
Posted by: FPM2K at December 7, 2004 11:22 PM