The Melkman('s Supplier) Delivers!

[bmfc1]

From Twitter:
Giants OF Melky Cabrera has been suspended 50 games without pay after testing positive for Testosterone.

[DocTee]

Giants OF Melky Cabrera has been suspended 50 games

Quick...call Sabean and see if he'll take Jason Bay in exchange for some sourdough and garlic fries.

[TransMonk]

You mean 2012 All Star Game MVP Melky Cabrera?

Lots of doping MVPs in the MLB...but the problem has been addressed, right Bud?

[seawolf17]

Split and retitled so we can more aptly make fun of him.

[G-Fafif]

Giants fans also vote for a suspension of Pablo Sandoval. Habit.

[bmfc1]

I'm listed as the thread's author but I wish I thought of something as clever as supplied by someone else.

If an NL team wins the World Series in 7 games, will the championship be questioned as the NL team had home-field advantage in part because of the game play of a player that used performance enhancing drugs?

[Ceetar]

bmfc1 wrote: I'm listed as the thread's author but I wish I thought of something as clever as supplied by someone else. If an NL team wins the World Series in 7 games, will the championship be questioned as the NL team had home-field advantage in part because of the game play of a player that used performance enhancing drugs?

no one questions the Yankees roided up champions of the late nineties.

[Edgy MD]

Ooh! Ooh! I do!

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: From Twitter: Giants OF Melky Cabrera has been suspended 50 games without pay after testing positive for Testosterone.

Well I think everyone in the majors would test positive for testosterone.
Me too for that matter and I barely played in high school.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Yes, but he tested positive for Testosterone, not testosterone.

Oh yes, he got tested
Testosterone was present
With a capital 'T,' and that rhymes with 'P,' which is what they test.

[Edgy MD]

My brother-in-law just this morning posted this shot of his Giant-lovin' Cabrera-cravin' son at the ballyard posing with these goofballs.

That kid's school lunch is being washed down with the sour milk of disillusionment right about now.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Ooh! Ooh! I do!

question the 2009 one too of course.

[Frayed Knot]

TransMonk wrote: ... but the problem has been addressed, right Bud?

Well, the fact that they've tested, caught, and punished the reigning league MVP and ASG MVP (even if one was reversed by outside forces) almost immediately afterward indicates that they are at least attempting to address it and aren't sweeping things under the rug when they do find it.
Compare this to the NFL which somehow went from 3 300-pound players in the early 1970s to over 350 current 300+ pounders and yet seems to catch almost no one.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Yeah, it's kind of like the states that indict lots of politicians for bribery, et al and everyone says "that state is so corrupt!" I'm more suspicious of the states where no politicians are caught.

[ashie62]

You can't build a mouse trap for this stuff.

Oh..Test Jason Kubel..

[ashie62]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Yeah, it's kind of like the states that indict lots of politicians for bribery, et al and everyone says "that state is so corrupt!" I'm more suspicious of the states where no politicians are caught.

What states are those lol.. Nirvana?

[Edgy MD]

Do people actually laugh out loud when they type "lol"?

[Frayed Knot]

I don't, but I do occasionally ladle out lentils.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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[Guest The Second Spitter]

Frayed Knot wrote: TransMonk wrote: ... but the problem has been addressed, right Bud? Well, the fact that they've tested, caught, and punished the reigning league MVP and ASG MVP (even if one was reversed by outside forces) almost immediately afterward indicates that they are at least attempting to address it and aren't sweeping things under the rug when they do find it. Compare this to the NFL which somehow went from 3 300-pound players in the early 1970s to over 350 current 300+ pounders and yet seems to catch almost no one.

Only 10% of MLBers are PED-tested in the off-season (a figure undoubtedly padded by those tested playing Winter Ball). Comparatively, 50% of NFL players are tested in the off-season.

[Ceetar]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Yeah, it's kind of like the states that indict lots of politicians for bribery, et al and everyone says "that state is so corrupt!" I'm more suspicious of the states where no politicians are caught.

Those states have bigger bribes. i.e. better suppliers, better masking agents, better drugs. So the richer states/teams/players?

[Edgy MD]

Folks'll do anything to get off the Royals.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Folks'll do anything to get off the Royals.

funny, people* are suggesting the Giants should get Francoeur from the Royals.

*stupid national beat guys

[MFS62]

The San Francisco fans have been waiting for the next Barry Bonds.
Well, he tried to be.
Later

[TransMonk]

The Baseball Project weighs in:

[bmfc1]

oops

[Edgy MD]

Wow, the Daily News beats the rest to the story as the plot thickens.

[Edgy MD]

I have to say, a timeline of Melky getting released by the Braves, to Melky working out with Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano, to Alex getting caught in a web of lies, to Melky getting similarly disgraced...

It looks bad for Cano.

[metirish]

Edgy DC wrote: Wow, the Daily News beats the rest to the story as the plot thickens.

That is unreal, what a douchebag he is......

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: I have to say, a timeline of Melky getting released by the Braves, to Melky working out with Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano, to Alex getting caught in a web of lies, to Melky getting similarly disgraced... It looks bad for Cano.

You mean that guy the Yanx were trying to give away in several trades* before calling him up as a last resort** even as Gene Michael admitted they didn't expect much from him?
You mean that guy?



* I know they tried to move him in the Randy Johnson deal but the DBacks insisted on catcher Dioneer Navarro instead
I believe he was later on the list of throw-ins the Rangers could choose from in addition to main bait Alfonso Soriano in the ARod trade, but Texas opted for the 'true SS' in Joaquin Arias who was lower in the minors but they thought maybe had the better upside because of his position.

** IIRC it was when their FA acquisition Tomy Womack got injured and was sucking that they summoned him for lack of other options.
He had been something of a prospect during his time in the minors although considered a bit of a 'tweener' as touts weren't sure if he had the glove to play 2B or the bat to play 3rd. And, yes, he and Melky were best-buds when Cabrera was still in the Bronx.