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| Greek players test positive |
| 2004-08-09 |
| Monday, 9 August, 2004, 10:18 GMT 11:18 UK Two players on Greece's Olympic baseball team have tested positive for drugs, it was announced on Monday. One "A" sample revealed traces of the steroid stanozolol and the other contained the diuretic substance hydrochloro-thiazide. "We're expecting the 'B' sample to be announced later in the day," said Greece's baseball federation chief Panayiotis Mitsopoulos. The identities of the baseball players have yet to be revealed. "If the positive tests are confirmed, the first player will have to go," said Mitsopoulos. He added: "Of course, this is unfortunate news. But on the other hand it also has a positive side because it shows that Greece will stage clean Olympics." The tests will have embarrassed the Greek-American owner of the Balitmore Orioles Major League team, Peter Angelos, who sponsored a squad made up mostly of Americans of Greek descent. The majority of the players are those who appear in the American minor leagues or who are expatriates living in Greece. Way to go, jerkwits. Shame your ancestors when the spotlight is on them. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #12 brings new meaning to pitcher and catcher, eh? Keep your mitts offa me! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-08-09 22:34 |
| #11 brings new meaning to pitcher and catcher, eh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-09 22:19 |
| #10 borgboy: So did I. And Greek baseball sounds like something played in the bathroom of a Georgetown dance club. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-08-09 22:16 |
| #9 Given the header, I thought it was an AIDs article... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2004-08-09 18:15 |
| #8 This is illustrative of widespread steroid abuse in baseball.Remember the 5-7% of MLB players that tested positive for steroids?A couple of points.The major leaguers had plenty of advance warning,so only the stupid or hopelessly addicted tested positive.Second pitchers are not thought to be steroid users,so the 5-7% are from position players.Most 25man rosters have at least 10 pitchers,7% of 15 is @2 players per team,giving an effective rate of @13% of position players caught using steroids.If 13% of your employees were caught using drugs,would you say you had no problem?MLB is. BTW,US mens basketball team's hopes for gold rest on Tim Duncan,who was not born in US.(Virgin Islands can field teams in international competitions.)Shammond Williams,African-American,plays for Georgia national mens basketball team.MLB wanted to boost international presence by helping field Greek team. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-08-09 5:14:42 PM |
| #7 Aris can't pitch for this one. He's supposed to be blogging the off the field action for Rantburg. |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2004-08-09 4:09:56 PM |
| #6 So Aris, how's your slider? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-09 4:07:22 PM |
| #5 I suppose that this isn't the best time to bring up the Armenian bobsledding team. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-08-09 3:35:07 PM |
| #4 So what's the point of fielding a team for a sport that nobody plays? Just because you can? I've just never seen a whole baseball team comprised of pinch-hitters before. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-08-09 3:22:37 PM |
| #3 There's no Greek baseball at all -- only reason Greece is fielding a team on that sport is the host country's privilege to field a team on *every* sport. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-08-09 3:03:31 PM |
| #2 Americans of Greek descent?!? WTF? Play for your own damn country, and let the others field their own teams! You want to play for Greece? F*cking move there and change your nationality. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-08-09 2:47:59 PM |
| #1 OMG- Roids in Baseball???!!! Say it aint so! /looking at you Bonds, Sosa, McGwire |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2004-08-09 2:16:05 PM |