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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mannie who wrote (20584)	6/18/2003 1:47:31 AM
From: Cactus Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Scott, I haven't followed the Neuheisel story closely, but from what I've seen he doesn't have much of a complaint. The fact that one guy gets busted for something that many others also do doesn't mean the one guy was treated unfairly. If that were the case, I'd NEVER get a speeding ticket. <G> jpg

To: Mannie who wrote (20584)	6/18/2003 10:13:38 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

I heartily disagree. Creative cheating has long been part of the rich tapestry that is baseball. Corked bats, even ? Bucky Dent with superballs in his, but it is really the pitcher who cheats the most. Spit balls, scuff balls, nicked (on the beltbuckle) balls, emery board balls, vasoline balls, and GOK what else. Teams have even provided frozen balls for games, so the visitors would start out with a dead ball. One pitcher used to fray the sleeves on his uniform to help confuse the batter. Stealing signs from second base is cool; stealing them from the scoreboard and relaying them to the batter is cheating. Flashing mirrors in the batter's eyes is, too, but that is usually done by the fans. In my younger daze,during the glory daze of the Mays/Cepeda/McCovey/Marichal Giants and the Wills/Davis x 2/Drysdale/Koufax Dodgers (and when I was a Dodger fan), the Giants had a mortal fear of Maury Wills, who stole bases like nobody's business (BTW, the name of a Hog Farm spin off store in town). Giants mgr Alvin Dark (I think it was him) had the ground crew flood the area around 1st base to slow Wills down. I mean really flood it. I think the Commish eventually got involved in that one. Where would BBall be without cheating like this? (Everybody was willing to pay the price when caught, too). Will it hurt Sosa? Spitballer Gaylord Perry is in the Hall. It probably will only cause concern if/when (since he is younger) he catches Bonds, Mays, Ruth, Aaron. If he keeps hitting them, people will figure out it probably wasn't the bat. Howsomever, he looks a lot heavier to me than he did a few years ago. Steroids? Rat