Wow, Big Papi eh? Reading his quote about testing, he sounds like the others who talk up testing and then juice anyway. They should just divulge the names now, instead of a leak every few months, at that rate we'll know all by mid-century!
Mike, I agree with you, but I wonder if your Little League example is the reason why. I can't think of much else that could motivate that kind of play. Maybe it is just the next evolution of the laziness that has (IMO) infected the game. Yankees 3 1/2 up now! It's going to be an exciting run...
From wikitionary: "An official scoring judgement in which a runner is not credited with a stolen base because the team playing the field did not try to stop the steal. This typically occurs late in a game when the fielding team is winning."
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/defensive_indifference...
@ Mike
Very true.
I'm torn about the "27 outs" thing. It's true in principle but sometimes you need to MAKE something happen. Too many times do games turn around on a steal or some bloop or other foolish error, compounded by a hitter coming up after.
Not to resurrect the discussion from pages...
I agree with Hank's sentiment about the "need" to know who the others are, but the tests were anonymous then weren't they? So, it's not really anyone's right to know who was on an anonymous list. It strikes me as funny that a Hall of Fame player, has a problem with the steroid users, I have my...