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3 Point Stan
08-10-2007, 01:17 PM
Best moment in sports last night is when Rick Ankiel received a standing-O when he 1st walked to the plate. The 2nd best story is when he homered in his last AB. I've been rooting for this guy to make it back. I hope he gets to stay.

Read more here (http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=253473).
Mikiemo83
08-10-2007, 01:50 PM
great story and I am with you on this one 3pt, if he can do this I can picture Kevin Costner trying to get the film rights
soxin07080910
08-10-2007, 06:12 PM
congrats...one of the greatest althletes in baseball and has a lot of heart and balls...good luck rick
SamBam39
08-10-2007, 10:12 PM
Enough with this Barry Bonds crap. Give me more Rick Ankiel!!!
TITAN126
08-10-2007, 10:13 PM
Ya this was definitely a great story...but another story from that game was JOEL PINIERO pitched seven shutout innings and only gave up 4 hits. WTF! When he was playing for us, you'd be lucky to get one shutout inning from him, nevermind seven.
Redsoxfan57
08-11-2007, 02:26 AM
Enough with this Barry Bonds crap. Give me more Rick Ankiel!!!

Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!
3 Point Stan
08-17-2007, 03:45 PM
The following laugh has been brought to you, courtesy of ESPN Page 2...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/shepdogg16/Red%20Sox/DrewHoo.jpg
3 Point Stan
09-07-2007, 03:37 PM
The Good: Ankiel blasts 2-HR's (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdbrCZp8z9TFfhb9Le1GL4M7gDXA)

The Bad & The Ugly: Ankiel allegedly received HGH in 2004 (http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i_3T50oRUBrAW-7AYm0cT2sFsHNA)

*sigh*

Is anything on the up-and-up anymore? I guess I believe that he stopped before they were banned outright by MLB but it just seems that with every good story is a shocking one waiting in the shadows.
kgsmith
09-07-2007, 05:05 PM
yup.. another feel good story tainted by steroids.. way to go rick!.. you can sit on the bench right next to barroids.
oldskool138
09-07-2007, 05:09 PM
Looks like this Ankiel had an Achilles heel.

:D :D :D
Mikiemo83
09-07-2007, 05:14 PM
he claims he took them in 2004 before the ban, I give him the benefit of the doubt, I think I want to hug Barry Bonds
Bases Loaded
09-07-2007, 05:28 PM
he claims he took them in 2004 before the ban, I give him the benefit of the doubt, I think I want to hug Barry Bonds

LOL I think he needs one right about meow

Enough about this HGH crap, (almost) everybody did it and I truly believe that. And if they did, they are going to suffer weakened joints and more injuries. Therefore, the playing field is leveled. End of story.

Play ball!
oldskool138
09-07-2007, 05:41 PM
Yeah, you know what? I'm tired of all this HGH and steriod crap. I'm officially worn out. I'm almost about to say "F" it! If pro athletes want to juice up and shorten their life-span by 20 years and shrink certain parts of the male anatomy, good! Go for it!

I'm tried of EEI, ESPN and everyone else talking about the lastest scandal. Yeah, it's cheating. Yeah, it wrong. Yeah, it sets a bad example for kids. But what are you going to do about it? Blood tests? The player's union isn't going to go for that. Urine tests? Okay, but most of these guys use masking agents.

Hell, they might as well condone it since there's no way to control it. The only way you get caught is if you use your real name when buying them from a "Pharmacy" that under investigation by the FBI (Rodney Harrison, I'm looking in your direction).
Bases Loaded
09-07-2007, 05:43 PM
Yeah, it wrong. Yeah, it sets a bad example for kids. But what are you going to do about it? Blood tests? The player's union isn't going to go for that. Urine tests? Okay, but most of these guys use masking agents.

Hell, they might as well condone it since there's no way to control it.

The War on Drugs in a nutshell :D
3 Point Stan
09-07-2007, 06:52 PM
Yeah, you know what? I'm tired of all this HGH and steriod crap. I'm officially worn out. I'm almost about to say "F" it! If pro athletes want to juice up and shorten their life-span by 20 years and shrink certain parts of the male anatomy, good! Go for it!


What concerns me about 'roids is not the pro athletes that take them. It's the wannabe pro athletes who take them. HS and college kids a like. This is real the problem with this issue.
Mikiemo83
09-07-2007, 06:55 PM
What concerns me about 'roids is not the pro athletes that take them. It's the wannabe pro athletes who take them. HS and college kids a like. This is real the problem with this issue.yes this is the issue, the ones who are "star" athletes in a small school who think it will make them productive in the next level..then what, you have a jacked up ass on roids with rage..

Kis are stupid, trust me on this I wa/am one and did plenty of stupid things, enough to cover all the members of Sox planet
oldskool138
09-08-2007, 03:29 PM
It looks like Troy Glaus of your Toronto Blue Jay is also under investigation!

http://www.iwebtool.com/shortcut/18339

Crap! I have a signed Troy Glaus jersey that I won when I went up to Toronto. It's value just went in the toilet. :mad:
Bases Loaded
09-08-2007, 03:54 PM
It looks like Troy Glaus of your Toronto Blue Jay is also under investigation!

http://www.iwebtool.com/shortcut/18339

Crap! I have a signed Troy Glaus jersey that I won when I went up to Toronto. It's value just went in the toilet. :mad:

Really? What if you sell it now while his name is out there?