[TomFoolery]

Dude is one of the main reasons I'm a BoSox fan. He was money.





RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - The man who finished second to Jose Canseco in voting for the 1988 American League most valuable player award says he should have the award now that Canseco is talking publicly about his steroid use.


"Where's my MVP?" former Boston Red Sox (news) outfielder Mike Greenwell told the Fort Myers, Florida, News-Press. "(Canseco's) an admitted steroid user. I was clean."


Canseco, in his book, "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big," and in interviews with CBS's "60 Minutes" news program, says he injected former home run king Mark McGwire and former team mates Jason Giambi, Raphael Palmeiro, Juan Gonzalez and Ivan Rodriguez with steroids.


All have denied the accusations.


Boston Globe reporter Gorden Edes, a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America, said he did not believe the association would strip admitted steroid users of their awards.


"Like it or not, steroids were not a banned substance at that time in Major League Baseball," Edes told the News-Press.


Canseco told "60 Minutes Wednesday" that his steroid use was no secret to baseball officials.


"They knew what I was doing. They knew what the other baseball players were doing, if they were involved in taking steroids," Canseco said. "Owners knew it. Players Association knew it."


But Sandy Alderson, Major League Baseball's executive vice-president, said: "That's absolutely not true."


Asked on "60 Minutes Wednesday" did he think that Canseco was taking steroids, Alderson, the Oakland general manager when Canseco played there, said: "I had suspicions, over time, that he might be."

[VitaminE]

werd

[WoolyGoat]

No one has ever worn #39 with such intensity.

[Michman]

Dood used to wrestle aligators for a hobby.

[WoolyGoat]

"the gator"

[CT280]

he's a fag.

[TomFoolery]

I've still got my Mike Greenwell starting lineups and baseball card collection (located alphabetically in front of the Sam Horn collection).

[WoolyGoat]

A Sam Horn baseball collection is pretty hardcore.

That dude must think he's the shit now. The most popular Red Sox forum is named after him (http://www.sonsofsamhorn.com - those dudes know their shit), and he does pre/post game Red Sox broadcasts for NESN.

Guy was nailz w/the Paw Sox, didn't do shit with the big boys...

[TomFoolery]

A Sam Horn baseball collection is pretty hardcore.

That dude must think he's the shit now. The most popular Red Sox forum is named after him (http://www.sonsofsamhorn.com - those dudes know their shit), and he does pre/post game Red Sox broadcasts for NESN.

Guy was nailz w/the Paw Sox, didn't do shit with the big boys...

Bookmarked. They are 'stingy' with their membership. I will get in.

[WoolyGoat]

Good luck dude.

In 2002 we made the tough decision to close membership, requiring prospective new members to submit an application. This was done not to close the community, but to ensure that the quality of the discussions wouldn't suffer due to swift growth. This certainly wasn't the most popular decision we've ever made at SoSH, but it flat-out worked. Over the next two years we saw traffic increase exponentially - mainly due to non-members ("lurkers") stopping in just to read the threads. There are at least a dozen other Red Sox forums out there with anywhere from 3 to 10 times the members that SoSH has but SoSH still gets 5 to 10 times the daily traffic. If the SoSH members are the straws that stir the drink then these lurkers are the drink.

Late in 2003 was -- without a doubt - surreal: Curt Schilling popped into the SoSH chat room the day before Thanksgiving and allowed some of SoSH's finest to help persuade him to choose Boston over New York. For many months thereafter he was a daily fixture at SoSH, making himself available to the fans so long as the media didn't intervene. Gehrig38 still posts on occasion and stops into the chat room from time to time. Red Sox principal owner John Henry has also made better than two dozen posts over the past couple of years.

[WoolyGoat]

If you're interested, this thread is one of the coolest things I've ever read. It's pretty long, sappy, and I'm sure some will say pathetic, but I believe it is also being published as a book. It pretty much sums up how much beating the Yankees and winning the WS actually meant to Sox fans from all over the world.