Article On Rafael Palmeiro

[Bulldog Bruce]

Got to this article on Fox Sports from Facebook this morning. Hopefully he can be happy again. I know he feels cheated, but there is nothing he can do about it. At least he got to have a long career in Baseball unlike some of us who didn't get the full opportunity.

 

[GhostOfJackie]

Great read

It's amazing how fast the walls crumbled around him.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Damnit, now NC State is going to get a new stadium before we do. Thanks Cohen.

 

[00Dawg]

Well...

I've already felt justified defending him all these years, but it's nice to get a little boost to that argument now and again.

 

[Shmuley]

You feel justified defending what? .........................................................................................

Hell, his own wife doesn't defend him: “He knows,” Lynne says. “But if he has to say how hard it’s been for me and Patrick and Preston, then it’s horrible for him because he has to realize he’s hurt other people.”

 

[coach66]

Damn, I found that very sad. I didn't know about the bankruptcy but it

Sounds like he came out of it ok. He is classically depressed and needs to find a way to snap out off it. What's done is done and how he lives the rest of his life is what counts and ultimately what he will be remembered for. It ain't over till it's over Raffy, suck it up and get going in the right direction. I know the majority of the people at MSU would support you, I think.

 

[8dog]

I dont think thats what she saying. I think she is talking about how the whole thing has affected him and the family.

But i also believe he knowingly took the stuff. Kruks comments on the thunder and lightening story about the visible difference between b12 and winstrol are pretty damning.

The real shame is he took a tom of heat for somwthing people dont even really care about anymore because we all realize it was commonplace. Which causes him to lie. Which is what will keep him out of cooperstown.

 

[coach66]

He got some very bad advice from a lawyer to wag his finger in outrage and

Lie and it was a huge mistake. If he had just answere the questions honestly, taken his beating and emerged with a positive message things would be much better for everyone. He is depressed and needs help.

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

I agree the article sure makes it seem he is clinically depressed. You identify with yourself as this great player and due to this perfect storm you are not receiving the accolades you always got, and think you still deserve. That was something I was always satisfied about my pro career in that if I wasn't going to make it, I'm glad it happened relatively quickly. I would have hated being on the brink for multiple years to have to then restart at 30. So it's hard to imagine being adored for 20 years and having the rug pulled out from under you whether you are at fault or not.

So I will support him no matter what he did or didn't do. Life is never how we imagine it will be. It just is what it is. So live it without expectation and be happy.

 

[coach66]

Amen brother, he needs all the support he can get but he has to take the first

Step and start building the next phase of his life and end the pity party. He is still a young man that can do many great things with his life.

 

[patdog]

Yep. If he had never even testified in Congress, he'd be just another player caught up the steroid scandal and not the poster child for it. He still wouldn't have gotten in the HOF, but otherwise, nobody would think twice when his name came up.

 

[dawgdr]

I always wondered if he had taken a polygraph. Winstrol has been around forever, still don't believe he knowingly took, if they were gonna pick something up it was that. He was the perfect fall guy, great player but not huge star, made it easy for them to get tougher testing standards. If I were a conspiracy theorist, say he was set up. It can be taken orally, whose to say wasn't slipped in a drink?

 

[AROB44]

Palmeiro was and still is my all time favorite MSU player (sorry Bruce....you are still in the to 5 with me). I hate what happened to him but it does not diminish what I think of him.

 

[coach66]

Bruce could hit it further, see Tamu first baseman shot to Lfl this weekend.

Nm

 

[maroonmania]

Yep. If he had never even testified in Congress, he'd be just another player caught up the steroid scandal and not the poster child for it. He still wouldn't have gotten in the HOF, but otherwise, nobody would think twice when his name came up.

Still boggles my mind how during a time when SO many players were doing steroids that he was essentially the only big name to actually fail a test.