Wednesday, April 30, 2008

It must be baseball season - the first 50 game suspension

So the first 50 game suspension has been levied, and it's SF Giant Eliezer Alfonzo (who started the season in Fresno).

He's admitted his guilt and apologized to his family, teammates and the fans (he has fans?) for his "mistake."

What kind of idiot uses any kind of performance enhancing substance in today's baseball climate? And so soon after the release of the Mitchell report? The scrutiny on players right now is intense, and it seems colossally stupid to juice in today's baseball. Instead of accelerating his return to the bigs, he has drawn 50 days of sitting (minus the accompanying paychecks) and has likely hurt his chances of a call-up by the Giants (who are trying real hard right now to appear squeaky clean after the exposure in the Mitchell report).

Bad move, Eliezer. Bad move.

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