The players deserve some blame. Look, steroids are illegal. Shame on them.

The management deserves some blame. They turned a blind eye to guys juicing in the clubhouse. I'll trust Jose Canseco when he says he injected Big Mac with roids in the clubhouse bathroom. And management was wildy enriched as a direct result of steroid use. Shame on them.

Bud Selig and Donald Fehr deserve the most blame. You should be able to figure out why.

So a lot of guys, from Gibbons to Bonds, used illegal performance enhancing drugs. Dropping names will only serve to slander ballplayers who aren't convictable in any court (save Bonds). And, I'm not crazy about how they got those names. McCarthyism. (took that reference from yesterday's NYT article about this. Go read it, it's great)

This whole thing is slimy and sleazy. Luckily it's over. Or at least there are punishments in place.

With each passing day Ken Griffey Jr's accomplishments shine brighter. He was the best baseball player throughout most of the steroids era - and he wasn't on steroids. His level of play throughout the 90s is crazy.

So do you think American forces should continue to occupy Iraq, and try to stamp this out.

Or should we leave Iraq and leave these Islamists to murder any women they want?

Or do you have a more nuanced answer?

(you can't put toothpaste back in the tube, and I doubt the AP's theory that Basra was a shining oasis of tolerance before the war.)

should we stay or should we go now?

Sorry, Mikes Pace, but Griffey was not the best player of the "steroid era". I don't like to let people get away with saying that, and they say it a lot. Barry Bonds was the best player of that era. Then probably some combination of Biggio, Frank Thomas, and Jeff Bagwell before Griffey.

If you called the four men you mentioned, all of them will tell you that Griffey Jr. was better than them during the steroid-era. Well, maybe not Bonds. But that wouldn't surprise me. It's fairly apparent that he doesn't always tell the truth.

Biggio?! Really?! That is such a head scratcher.

I'll grant a lot of those stats. Griffey can K with the best of them. Biggio scrapped and scooted around that dome for a long time.

I don't recall a Biggio for President ad campaign by Nike. Griffey was a force. The face of baseball - that's better than a pic of bonds angrily staring at someone. I don't remember one kid on my teams growing up that tried to emulate Biggio's swing.

Did Griffey play for the buckeyes? No, but his little brother Craig did. Kenneth was too busy starting in the all-star game at 19 to go to college.

Griffey was on the all-century team. Biggio wasn't. Thomas wasn't. Bonds wasn't. Rose was. Ted Williams was. Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth got the nod. Micky Mantle was on that team too.

I'll put it this way; you'll never have to answer to your grandkids what it was like watching Craig Biggio play. That means more than OPS.

and God Bless Ken Griffey Jr.

Bagpipes was a little juiceface. Biggio is Pete Rose divided by 7.

I thought we were going to hammer away at Fehr and Selig today.

Goodday.

I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

Insert Nelly and Terry Crews reference.

The NFL has a shortage of quarterback talent. Michael Vick has quarterback talent. He'll suit up again.

The NFL is evil. They'll accept Vick back with open arms. (King, Testaverde started a game this year, he doesn't exactly have Vick's athleticism, and he's 43)

Why don't they put stickers with the names 'Jacinth Baker' and 'Richard Lollar' on the back of NFL helmets? You know, the guys who Ray Lewis killed.

The guy who started last night for the falcons hadn't started a game in 5 years. and his last job was a sideline announcer for louisville.