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Updated: February 18, 2008, 11:25 PM ET
TAMPA, Fla. -- Hank Steinbrenner insists baseball is being picked on for its trouble with performance-enhancing drugs, and claims the problem is bigger in football.
"I don't like baseball being singled out," the New York Yankees senior vice president said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Monday night.

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Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs.
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--Hank Steinbrenner

"Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs. I don't know how they managed to skate by. It irritates me. Don't tell me it's not more prevalent. The number in football is at least twice as many. Look at the speed and size of those players."
Answered NFL spokesman Greg Aiello: "We've had year-round random testing with immediate suspensions since 1990 and we conduct approximately 12,000 steroids tests a year."
Steinbrenner's comments came after Andy Pettitte met with reporters for the first time since the Yankees pitcher was named in the Mitchell report. Two days after the report was released in December, Pettitte confirmed he used human growth hormone in 2002; two weeks ago, he told congressional investigators he also used HGH for one day in 2004.
"A lot of baseball people thought that baseball would be the last sport that it would be a problem in and probably just ignored it too long," Steinbrenner said. "But the fact is it's been in football a long time and it's been in basketball, I'm sure. Why baseball is being singled out, I don't know. I don't know. I know all the excuses -- `Well, it's America's game and it's the statistics.'
"That's not an excuse. If a sport is riddled with it, it's riddled with it. Why aren't they looking at the NFL?" he said.
Steinbrenner said baseball will "clean up the game."
"We're going to do it," he said.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press
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i agree, baseball's steroid problem is a midget compared to the NFL's as much as we like to overlook it
 
and for the NFL guy, its called HGH and you cant test for it. Nice one genius. If baseball players can get ahold of it im sure nfl players can get even easier through all their medical trainers
 
Hank should go out and get a real job instead of mooching off of his daddy. Maybe if MLB had some pee tests that the player's union would go along with, everyone wouldn't think baseball's drug testing policy is such a joke.
 
"Look at them, they are being bad too"!!! What a spoiled little brat.

Yes, I think the NFL has an HGH problem but trying to deflect blame to other sports because someone has you under the microscope makes you look like a little *****.

Clean up YOUR sport, don't worry about what others are doing.
 
Hanks comments are stupid on two fronts.

One hes deflecting criticism which only leads to more press about the same issue which means it gets dragged out even longer. Two, by doing that hes also admitting that baseball has a problem and the owners simply dont give a poop since they continue to pay these guys. The Yanks are one example as they gave Giambi a 120m contract based on a 2001 season in which he used performance enhancing drugs. The Royals completely ignored Jose Guillen being in the Mitchell Report and handed him 3/36m. The O's never blinked about Tejada being in it and Houston cared much either as they acquired him. Every team is guilty.

As a consequence the owners are simply admitting they dont care about the games' integrity, just that it lines their pockets not worrying about whose delusional romanticism with the game of baseball they dilute, namely mine.

Where's Roy Hobbs when we need him? Cant one of these people associated with the game stand up for what they believe in? So far only Wright and Schilling have had any shells to speak their minds on the issue. The more peers who speak out against it, the more likely it is to be frowned upon. Thats the only way the players union will gain support for serious drug testing in baseball.
 
I think the Hankenstein should give at least weekly sit-down interviews to the media dicussing anything that's he can think of. The guy is a gold mine, the last thing I'd want is for him to stop talking to the press.
 
Ray Finkle said:
I think the Hankenstein should give at least weekly sit-down interviews to the media dicussing anything that's he can think of. The guy is a gold mine, the last thing I'd want is for him to stop talking to the press.
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I totally agree, hopefully he is only getting started.

Atleast the NFL made an effort to do something after Lyle Alzado came out. Baseball protected its players to a very high level. This is nothing more than trying to deflect the fact that the Yankees were on the forefront of steroid usage, which is no surprise, they were buying some great players.
 
Ray Finkle said:
I think the Hankenstein should give at least weekly sit-down interviews to the media dicussing anything that's he can think of. The guy is a gold mine, the last thing I'd want is for him to stop talking to the press.
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Sure is great comedy.
 
I think its fair to say there is no such thing as a sane Steinbrenner. But I absolutely love the Hank era so far.
 
SpaceMountain16 said:
Baseball has a steroid problem?

I thought it was just the Yankees.
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When theres 80+ players named in 1 report and countless others unnamed and suspected its not 1 team. Its the failure of an entire sport, their unions, their CBA, and their incompetance policing themselves. MLB is getting what it deserved.

Further, for a handful of the yankees implicated at various times their abuses took place in other cities. Giambi in Oakland. Sheffield in lord knows how many cities. Kevin Brown in LA. Which only implicates the Yanks for signing these guys which is what everyone was doing or trying to do anyway.

Baseball doesnt only have a steriod problem that isnt limited to one team, they have a common sense problem. You dont reward cheaters if you actually care about the game. :shakeno:
 
Boik14 said:
When theres 80+ players named in 1 report and countless others unnamed and suspected its not 1 team. Its the failure of an entire sport, their unions, their CBA, and their incompetance policing themselves. MLB is getting what it deserved.

Further, for a handful of the yankees implicated at various times their abuses took place in other cities. Giambi in Oakland. Sheffield in lord knows how many cities. Kevin Brown in LA. Which only implicates the Yanks for signing these guys which is what everyone was doing or trying to do anyway.

Baseball doesnt only have a steriod problem that isnt limited to one team, they have a common sense problem. You dont reward cheaters if you actually care about the game. :shakeno:
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Im pretty sure it was a joke. And a damn funny one at that if I do say so myself. Haha yankees.
 
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