I just saw a clip of Terry’s press conference. I know his job is to manage the team as it is but don’t tell me something like this:
“There’s some people out there who need to have their integrity checked,” Terry Francona said.
He is talking about the guy who talked not about the cheating. Callahan is exactly right:
One of those people was inside the clubhouse with Francona. He stopped briefly to meet the media but said nothing. No courage on this day. David Ortiz [stats] was wearing dark glasses, but they didn’t help. The mask was off. The big lies exposed.
To steal Robert Stacy McCain’s favorite line via Clint.
Don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s raining.
Maybe John McGraw or Billy Martin would have gone along with it but I’m with Christy Mathewson and Hank Aaron on this:
But when it comes to Cooperstown, the site of Baseball’s National Hall of Fame, Aaron knows that there could be a division between players from his era, and those from the “steroid” era.
“I think that some way, something is going to be put on there. I hate to say it, but maybe an asterisk somewhere behind their name.”
No wonder there is talk about reinstating Pete Rose, justly banned though he is. He’s worth 5 of any of them. And if I was managing a team I’d want him on it, nobody I ever saw played harder. I’ll take him over any of the steroid boys. ANY of them.
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