Winning Ugly Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 http://ebaywojc.homestead.com/files/SosaHQ.wmv Enjoy! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aboz56 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Someone has way too much time on their hands, WAY TOO MUCH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clujer420 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 LOL. Too bad for Sammy he'll be thought of as the only cheater, when in reality there are many others who use corked bats (and worse). Guess someone has to be the fall guy, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubKilla Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 LOL. Too bad for Sammy he'll be thought of as the only cheater, when in reality there are many others who use corked bats (and worse). Guess someone has to be the fall guy, though. Couldn't have happened to a more overblown, overrated, and conceited asswipe. Put "*" by all his HoF stats now..... especially the power numbers. Who knows when he cheated or how often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clujer420 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 LOL. Too bad for Sammy he'll be thought of as the only cheater, when in reality there are many others who use corked bats (and worse). Guess someone has to be the fall guy, though. Couldn't have happened to a more overblown, overrated, and conceited asswipe. Put "*" by all his HoF stats now..... especially the power numbers. Who knows when he cheated or how often. Sammy's got a better attitude than most other athletes that are as popular as he is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steff Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 LOL. Too bad for Sammy he'll be thought of as the only cheater, when in reality there are many others who use corked bats (and worse). Guess someone has to be the fall guy, though. Couldn't have happened to a more overblown, overrated, and conceited asswipe. Put "*" by all his HoF stats now..... especially the power numbers. Who knows when he cheated or how often. Sammy's got a better attitude than most other athletes that are as popular as he is. I bet you think Michael Jordan is some sort of role model to, don't ya? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxplosion Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 LOL. Too bad for Sammy he'll be thought of as the only cheater, when in reality there are many others who use corked bats (and worse). Guess someone has to be the fall guy, though. Im glad that fall guy was Sammy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 LOL. Too bad for Sammy he'll be thought of as the only cheater, when in reality there are many others who use corked bats (and worse). Guess someone has to be the fall guy, though. Couldn't have happened to a more overblown, overrated, and conceited asswipe. Put "*" by all his HoF stats now..... especially the power numbers. Who knows when he cheated or how often. Sammy's got a better attitude than most other athletes that are as popular as he is. I bet you think Michael Jordan is some sort of role model to, don't ya? Wait til Sammy retires, and they give him the Kirby Puckett treatment. After the Chicago media even dug up dirt on Michael Jordan, you know they will do it to anyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 LOL. Too bad for Sammy he'll be thought of as the only cheater, when in reality there are many others who use corked bats (and worse). Guess someone has to be the fall guy, though. "there are many others who use corked bats (and worse)." What would the other players have done to cheat worse? Taken steroids? Ha too bad my ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTC2784 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Wait til Sammy retires, and they give him the Kirby Puckett treatment. After the Chicago media even dug up dirt on Michael Jordan, you know they will do it to anyone. Skip Bayless wrote a column in ST last year (during the Sosa-Bons feud) about how you CAN'T write anything bad about Sosa if you're a writer in Chicago. He basically went on and on about how Sosa was an egotistical bastard that deserved to get his ass chewed out by Bonds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTC2784 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 ....and here's his latest column in the Mercury News: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/spo...ess/6018790.htm World sees Scammin' Sammy By Skip Bayless Mercury News Finally the cover has been knocked off a beloved slugger known for knocking the cover off the ball. Finally an all-time great con artist has been exposed. As I've written many times, including in the newspaper that owns the Chicago Cubs, Sammy Sosa is the biggest phony I've encountered in any sport. Baseball's most popular player is Madison Avenue's most successful marketing fraud. Finally the world has seen that its cartoon superhero -- sweet, cuddly Sammy -- has feet of cork. If you think that's far too harsh, please understand that nothing poisons my pen like heroic hypocrites. While many fans, through the Great Home Run Race of 1998, were conned into seeing Sammy as this heart-tap-kissing, bunny-hopping buddy and rival of Mark McGwire's, the sly-eyed guy I often heard about or observed off-camera was a profane bully with highly questionable integrity. There's some Martha Stewart in Sosa, and vice versa. Here is a great actor who can be a bad actor. I'll say it again: At least Barry Bonds is always exactly what he is. Yet fans believed the Mark-and-Sammy fairy tale they badly wanted to believe. A mystified McGwire privately told St. Louis reporters he had no idea why Sosa kept telling the media they were close friends. McGwire knew Sosa only from conversations at first base and never played golf or socialized with him. Does anyone remember that Sosa, as a member of the Chicago White Sox, was accused of spousal abuse? No. Does anyone remember that his family-operated Sosa Foundation set up to help rebuild his Dominican Republic after it was ravaged by storms in '98 collapsed under accusations of corruption? No. Now maybe some of the wide-eyed Sosa worshipers will narrow their eyes with skepticism. Now maybe some of the companies whose products he pushes will rethink paying millions to Say It Ain't Sosa. No, he's no worse than a lot of wealthy superstars. But the corked bat he was caught using proves he isn't the baseball-saving role model so many fans were sold. My educated guess: Sosa cheated, got caught and lied about it. Yet fortunately for Sosa, his bat shattered in the bottom of the first inning, revealing the illegal cork and getting him ejected. He had the rest of the game 1) to remove other possible weapons of corked destruction from his clubhouse bat bin before baseball officials confiscated them for inspection; and 2) to rehearse his apology and excuse. Not surprisingly, the league office announced no cork was found in the 76 bats examined. Sosa's no fool, and neither are baseball executives. He remains one of baseball's biggest draws. Answering ``yes, sir'' and ``no, sir'' to TV reporters' questions, Sosa has begged forgiveness while claiming he accidentally picked up the one corked bat he uses only ``to make the fans happy'' by hitting tape-measure home runs in batting practice. That's only slightly less believable than former Alabama Coach Mike Price's story that he awoke in his hotel room bed with a woman he'd never seen before. Some players prefer slightly heavier batting-practice bats so their regular lumber will feel lighter during games. But Sosa has struggled of late after being hit in the head with a pitch and missing some games with a toe problem. When he returned last weekend, he looked as overweight as his bat looked slow. He struck out eight times in two games. So Tuesday night, with runners at second and third, it was probably no accident he reached for the hollowed-out bat he could swing a little faster. It's highly possible Sosa has occasionally tried to put a cork in a home-run slump. Experiments have shown corked bats provide only an approximate 1 percent improvement in distance. That, however, could occasionally mean the difference in a ball hitting high in Wrigley's ivy instead of catching the home-run basket. Now you wonder how many of Sosa's 505 homers were cork-aided. Five? Ten? For sure, a corked bat can provide a psychological edge for a slumping slugger. And Slammin' Sammy has sometimes desperately looked for ways to live up to the image he created in '98. He returned in '99 sporting about 30 more pounds and announced: ``I am a slugger now.'' Is it much of a stretch to believe, if he resorts to corked bats, he might have used testosterone boosters to build his body? He has repeatedly denied using them, but Cubs insiders have long suspected he has. But do most fans really care? No, most just want to be awed by home runs bouncing across streets and splashing in coves no matter what it took to produce them. I'm for outlawing performance-enhancing drugs to protect the players who don't want to risk using them but have no choice if they want to compete. But I'm for stiffer corked-bat penalties because it's time our national pastime stopped glamorizing cheating. My fairy tale would be baseball sending a tape-measure message by suspending Sammy Sosa 20 games, instead of the usual seven or eight for getting caught swinging cork. But we'll sooner see world peace. Nor will this incident damage Sosa's Hall of Fame chances. Spitball specialist Gaylord Perry was enshrined after seasons of being portrayed as colorfully crafty for illegally doctoring baseballs and avoiding detection. Then again, crusty old Gaylord wasn't sweet, cuddly Sammy. Sosa's image has taken a fitting hit. This just in: Sosa no angel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Preach on Skip! Too bad he left the Trib, he was the only balance that they had for the Cubs Writers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clujer420 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 I bet you think Michael Jordan is some sort of role model to, don't ya? Did I mention the term "role model"? All I said was that he has a better ATTITUDE than most athletes as popular as he is. There are very few role models in sports, though, now that you mention it -- and no, MJ is not one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clujer420 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 LOL. Too bad for Sammy he'll be thought of as the only cheater, when in reality there are many others who use corked bats (and worse). Guess someone has to be the fall guy, though. "there are many others who use corked bats (and worse)." What would the other players have done to cheat worse? Taken steroids? Ha too bad my ass. Steroids = worse than a corked bat. Don't tell me you think there aren't major leaguers on 'roids. And yes, it's too bad that Sammy is being made out to be some sort of criminal. As Artie Lang on the Stern show said, Sammy would have been better off if baggies of cocaine had flown out of that bat instead of cork. That is sad when you really think about it. Baseball is a game, and the guy cheated -- it's not life and death, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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