Palmetto Proving Grounds

I still try to keep up with the Braves but to read a box score nowadays you have to be able to speak Spanish.

Meh, Federer was one of the highest paid athletes in the world for a long time. Tennis is irrelevant

i'm surprized the occupy wall street crowd hasn't found his house

because all the other sports are clean...

Baseball is far from being irrelevant. Because of the actions of few you cannot demonize the whole. Besides, you're being extremely naive if you don't think that professional athletes in every sport don't use PEDs.

Baseball is lacking because of the excitement factor. I love the game but MLB has become too slow and Selig refuses to make changes that make the sport more entertaining. Football changed rules to make the game more pass oriented and even hockey got smart about scoring...Scoring equals more eyes on the TV

Baseball isn't irrelevant. Its a great sport and yes there are some cheaters that use PEDS, Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Canseco, etc... this Braun thing surprised me because he isn't all that muscular. They have him a second test and he passed it so he is appealing the ban.

Growing up I loved baseball. In the small town of Irmo in the 50's and 60's there were only two General Stores and a Furniture Store. As kids, we would run up to Leitner's Store to find a used paper with the Baseball Box Scores in them... I could recite the stat leaders in both the American and National League. I kept up with the game until the Oakland A's started appearing on TV a good bit. No baseball player that looked like a weight lifter and could perform the way that those teams did were doing things legal.

I'm sorry to say I don't even know the young man you guys are talking about. I have long since put all my efforts and love of the game to the college kids. This is where the true game is being played and it is so much fun to see it the way I use to those many years ago. Thank you Ray Tanner, staff, and players, for playing the game the right way..

jojo

You definitely hit the "home run" here

Growing up in the 50's I was and avid collector of baseball cards - the great players of the day would rise up and be elevated to the staus of bicycle spokes accesory - to add style and sound effect to the bike.

Never really followed the sport until the Saturday afternoon game of the week sponsored by Gillette and the commentators were Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reece.

Knew all the Yankees by name; Howard, Pepitone, Richardson, Kubek, Boyer and of course Ford, Mantle, Marris and Tresh.

Never followed the Braves but knew their names - Burdette, Spahn, Mathews and Aaron

The Reds of the 60's were great but loved the Reds of the 70's - Rose, Perez, Bench, were iconic - followed them to the World Series. Baseball was relevant - to me.

Then the army life came along and I haven't followed pro baseball since. There are teams for which I can't name a single player - hell, I probably can't even name all the teams. Back in the day there were only eight teams in each league.

Today baseball, to me, is only relevant if you follow the Gamecocks...but that's just my opinion.

Wasn't he on your fantasy team? Your just as guilty IMO. My team wasn't great but we were clean.

Steroids are used by all sports at all levels. You would hear a lot more about highschool and college scandals if PED tests werent so expensive for the schools to conduct.

Fact: steroids run rampant in minor league and college baseball. I know too many guys that have played pro/college baseball that verify this "belief".