New Baseball Season - Same Old Steroids, PEDs Tainting Grand Old Game? SF Giants Full PED Lineup ?

'Dodgers can't buy chemistry' was the big quote from the lips of San Francisco Giants'
starting first baseman,  Brandon Belt, earlier this year.
Funny thing is that the Giants DO have chemistry on their side,
but a lot of it comes in a bottle and syringe. Belt's confounding 8 spring homers is more
than his  ENTIRE 2012 season output! On top of that , he almost doubled his batting average,
 from .275 to .457!   Yes, we know it's spring training but still, that's
when the pitchers are often ahead of the hitters - and no other Giant hit more than four homers
(Pablo)... just another piece of wonderment on the Giants. One may not have concrete
evidence but there's sure got to be questions. And this, in light of Belt's muffled 'no'-comments about
the suspension and loss of Melky Cabrera last year...

As for the other Brandon, Crawford, he also raised his batting average  100 points this
spring training vs last season and doubled his slugging percentage with 10 extra base hits.
Note that he has also become mentored and good friends with Marco Scutaro, last seasons
most likely non-caught user of PEDs; Scutaro also raised his average 100 points just
after coming to the Giants from Colorado last season and likely has passed on some of 
his 'knowledge' to at least this Brandon, much like Melky passed it onto his fellow
venezuelan when Scutaro first joined the Giants, midseason 20120, prior to Cabrera's
suspension.' 

As for Scutaro, who's numbers are actually down in spring training, it may be due to
injuries, or , maybe he is saving himself for the season.

The fact of the matter is that , with this new knowledge about the Brandon brothers - who heretofore  we thought and hoped to be clean - virtually every Giant  starting player has probably used or is using PEDs (performance enhancing drugs). Perhaps the Brandons were under too much pressure to reach that potential that had long gone unfulfilled.   No heavy science here, just too many questions. And, combine this with some real science and numbers - 
see http://wheredidyougojoedimaggio1.blogspot.com  -  and read all the posts form last year and together you've got a mountain of evidence that points the Giants  further advancing a  the PED tradition that began over a decade ago with Barry Bonds where now likely every starter but probably Posey has likely used or is using PEDs. Only the names have changed, in our opinion..

So, now the starting lineup is secure of PED players, either former users or current...
with Buster Posey the only player  unlikely  using...
probably so squeaky clean he doesn't even know the others have been or are using - and now
his unheard of nine year contract...

PS Don't you love the way the Giants go out and try to nail down nearly every starting player
to long term contracts, especially with their track record  , going back
to Rennie Stennett and even Orlando Cepeda for Ray Sedeki... Aaron Rowand, Huff, Zito
(even though he's redeemed himself the past season after four bad ones @ $20K per, etc..

New Baseball Season - Same Old Steroids, PEDs Tainting Grand Old Game? SF Giants Lead Way?

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MLB Tries to Cover By Going After Miami 'Balco'

Notice Spring Training  has been a bit quieter this year? 

       Along with an unusual amount   of 'mysterious' injuries this year, there's an underlying feeling of discontent in Mudville.  Especially among the old school guys, the broadcasters and sportswriters, who know, deep down, that baseball is far from the pure sport it was thirty years ago when guys named Willie and Micky lead the way. The old 'spring fever' isn't  there. No surprise what with the continuing stream of  players testing positive for chemical enhancement and the unknowing who IS and who ISN't 'on' something..   Sadly,  the young generation - under age 20 -    has never seen baseball played CLEANLY , now over 10 years since Bonds made Ruth turn over in the grave and Henry Aaron wince a lot, when Bonds hit 73 dingers in San Francisco, where homeruns used to be scarce;  Bonds was really the one who set things off,  though McGwire and Conseco played a smaller role  but  were a mere blip on the radar years earlier. 

So,'Commissioner' Selig and MLB decide  they have to make a point, lest they continue to look even more like  'turn the other cheek'  laughing stock,  as they've been for over a decade now. They come up with some names, much like Edgar Mitchell did - remember the Mitchell report that went nowhere? - and   threaten a lawsuit against this new Miami-based version of San Francisco's BALCO.  Good luck guys. Sounds like going after straws again. Give 'em a little scare, I guess.   Without real hard evidence,  you're putting yourselves in position for a reverse lawsuit - and to further  upset the game.. Nothing's going to change at this point, especially with the speed and ineptness that Selig and his 'yes men' do  things. Baseball's players union is very strong and you're not going to get very far. Meanwhile the fans will suffer, or will they?  The young ones don't know any other way than baseball on steroids.   It's sad for both  those  who haven't had the opportunity to see REAL baseball , and , us  'oldtimers' who remember how great the game can be if played honestly. But, like so many things today, there are easy short cuts to easy money, thanks largely to advanced chemicals, computers and , perhaps, a society gone south.

 I, for one, have pretty much lost interest in baseball (especially living in the SF area ( PED headquarters) but it looks like things may be going bi-coastal  .  As Buster Olney noted in his ESPN column today,  the problem is now so entrenched . Easily half the SF Giants are on the stuff, in my opinion, lead by the Venezuela connection of Scutaro and  Sandoval. (Scutaro comes over mid season to suddenly become Babe Ruth and 'teach' Sandoval his 'tricks' just as A-Rod  did with M Cabrera, before Cabrera took his 'secrets' back to Kansas City where he taught his fellow Venezuelan Scutaro and Mijarez before THEY came to  the Giants... and on and on it goes.. Incestual relationships all over the place but either I am the only one who sees them or perhaps one of the few who cares enough to speak out.  So the  Giants lose another star of 2010, Brian Wilson.  No big deal.. J ust go back and get old suspects from 2010 , Andre Torrez and Rafael Ramirez, who had their best seasons with Giants, as have most of these guys. Across the bay The A's bring back Bartolo Colon, who will either still have to be on the juice , at 39 , to perform well, or will be a throwaway. Here today , gone tomorrow,  just like the experiment with Manny Ramirez,  last year; that failed, leaving him out of excuses and into retirement. Finally.   More  @  http://wheredidyougojoedimaggio1.blogspot.com/