tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29764383.post4069344528764710937..comments2023-09-06T07:56:47.820-04:00Comments on Open Book: A Sports Blog: Melky Cabrera, Victor Conte and sports as we've come to accept itPat Caputohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05102662407927366439noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29764383.post-4121161755139718622012-08-17T13:59:05.219-04:002012-08-17T13:59:05.219-04:00"I get the sense we are letting our guards do..."I get the sense we are letting our guards down again." the most recent positive test result indicates, to me, that the system is working to a certain degree. <br /><br />regardless of what testing system is in place, there will always be people who can figure a way to defeat the test...or at least think they can.<br /><br />the games will have to police themselves. it will take the woodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29764383.post-24166128483001764202012-08-16T18:07:17.160-04:002012-08-16T18:07:17.160-04:00I'm not turning my head, Pat, because the game...I'm not turning my head, Pat, because the game of baseball has to have purity through history. I know, the distracted will claim there has been cheating for many years, loaded bats, amphetamines, etc for years. But these performance enhancing drugs are exactly that, they enhance performance. Although players die at age 60. <br /><br />It was a sad decade in history when Selig and his Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29764383.post-61593420811249225332012-08-16T15:27:00.818-04:002012-08-16T15:27:00.818-04:00I think yourseeing the final days of this level of...I think yourseeing the final days of this level of purity about athletes and PEDs.<br /><br />Think I'm crazy or cynical? <br /><br />This was the 100th anniversary of Jim Thorpe - remember him from history class - remember reading bbooks about him when we were kids Pat? Jim of couse had his medal stripped because he received something (I can't remember what it was now) that was seen as Fred Brillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731385357714489031noreply@blogger.com