If ______ was caught doing steroids, I'd stop watching baseball.

[STLCards2]

Is there any player that if it was found out they were on 'roids, you would lose so much faith in baseball, you would stop watching...at least for a while?

I don't know if I would stop watching, but if Greg Maddux or Tom Glavine were caught, it would be pretty crazy. David Eckstein? That would suck too.

[Senior skittles]

albert pujols
roger clemens
jim edmonds
reggie sanders.....
jason giambi( i admire hes come back so good after using steroids plus he just owned up to his mistakes and moved past them)

ya i know im leaning heavily cardinal but I am a cardinal fan and would just die if I found out my heroes are cheaters...

[Astro]

No, its part of the game now... wouldnt really surprise me if anyone was caught...

Looking at the Current Events board its expected, if a player is doing good

[Jake83]

Marshall Macdougal:D

[Chelle]

I don't think anyone could get me to stop watching baseball...

However, if it ever came out that Cal had done steriods...I think I'd be broken hearted.

[geezer]

If Rafael Palmeiro gets bustes for steroid, Ill kill myself!!!


Oops!!

[soberdennis]

I don't know if anybody would make me stop watching. I might be more likely to stop watching simply because I am tired of hearing about them.
If there was one player that might make me consider such drastic action, it probably would be Derek Jeter.

[1935,1945,1968,1984]

It would tick me off if any of the "fat" guys were discovered to do steroids, or even speed. This list would include but is not limited to, the following:
John Kruk
Tony Gwynn
David Wells
Dmitri Young
Cecil Fielder
Greg Luzinski
Matt Stairs
C.C. Sabathia
I almost forgot, Babe Ruth

[W_Marone]

yeah if I found out like a Cal Ripken Jr. or a Tony Gwynn used, I'd be very shocked and sad, but I'm not sure I'd stop watching. Roger Clemens or Curt Shilling, or perhaps David Bell.

[mojorisin71]

I personally don't care. I love the game too much.

This reminds me of the old Futurama episode where 1000 years in the future, where baseball was deemed too dull and boring, so they made steroid injection mandatory and it evolved into blernsball.

[rockin500]

It would tick me off if any of the "fat" guys were discovered to do steroids, or even speed. This list would include but is not limited to, the following:
John Kruk
Tony Gwynn
David Wells
Dmitri Young
Cecil Fielder
Greg Luzinski
Matt Stairs
C.C. Sabathia
I almost forgot, Babe Ruth
sorry, but krukker has said he used after a long night at Murphy's Bleachers.

[sandlot]

English arrogance:DShouldn't that be Swedish arrogance?:)

[digglahhh]

Anybody who is so staunch and unwavering about the presence of PEDs in the game might as well jump ship now. I wouldn't bet a nickel on any individual player being clean. And this is only the beginning...

[Sultan_1895-1948]

Nobody.

In order for that to happen, I'd have to be completely shocked and disgusted; a 0-60 type reaction. I'm already on cruise control at 30 mph. Nobody would surprise me at this point with what's available to these players. If you're only looking at players who "bulk up" then you're missing the entire picture.

[JohnGelnarFan]

John Mabry or Sal Fasano

[Bench 5]

David Eckstein. That guy needs some HGH. ;)

[Astro]

babe ruth..

[soberdennis]

babe ruth..
Yeah, if the Bambino was found to have used steroids, I would be so disenchanted with this game I have loved for over 40 years, I would probably stop watching. Fortunately that's not likely to happen.
Of course who knows what was in those Hot Dogs?

[Yankees]

If no one was caught doing steroids, I'd stop watching baseball.

In other words, I'm not going to stop watching.

[DoubleX]

I wouldn't be surprised by any player being caught at this point. However, if Derek Jeter were caught, I'd stop being a fan.

[ESPNFan]

Mitchell Freedman

[Taco De Muerte]

Fans who would stop watching baseball because a player they liked tested positive for PED'S really aren't fans of the game at all.

[Jake83]

Shouldn't that be Swedish arrogance?:)


:D It was a comment more directed at English football in general not just Sven. But if he wins the Cup for the English he will probably become an hononary Englander.....

[Elvis]

I personally don't care. I love the game too much.

Me too. The game is so much bigger than any one man playing it. Although I'm still pissed that the record milestones are now pretty much meaningless at this point.

------------------

Lou Gehrig.

[wamby]

AT this point, I wouldn't be surprised if anyone was caught.

[Astro]

:D It was a comment more directed at English football in general not just Sven. But if he wins the Cup for the English he will probably become an hononary Englander.....
Get soccer talk to a forum where it deserves to be... perhaps naptime.com or whocares.org

[Jake83]

Get soccer talk to a forum where it deserves to be... perhaps naptime.com or whocares.org
I am sorry you do not show the same passion for the game as most of the world.....

[Sultan_1895-1948]

babe ruth..

You're safe.

[Outta Here]

Get soccer talk to a forum where it deserves to be... perhaps naptime.com or whocares.org

*gasp* :grouchy How DARE you, soccer is great!!

Oh yeah, less of the anti-Englishness Jake :D

About 2 see England kick-off vs Paraguay... CUM ON ENGLAND :gt

[Jake83]

*gasp* :grouchy How DARE you, soccer is great!!

Oh yeah, less of the anti-Englishness Jake :D

About 2 see England kick-off vs Paraguay... CUM ON ENGLAND :gt


Come on That is my Scotish hertiage

[Outta Here]

Come on That is my Scotish hertiage

Really? Were r Scotland in the WC this year then :eek:

Lets c if USA can match ENG winning their 1st game shall :D

[Red Sox Rule]

Really? Were r Scotland in the WC this year then :eek:

Lets c if USA can match ENG winning their 1st game shall :D

USA have great chance of going far this year as they have some very talented players.

I wouldn't stop watching baseball if a player was banned as i watch baseball for the sport not the players

[SamtheBravesFan]

No one. I'd never stop watching baseball for any reason.

[Outta Here]

USA have great chance of going far this year as they have some very talented players.

I wouldn't stop watching baseball if a player was banned as i watch baseball for the sport not the players

Agree with u there & wasnt really impressed by our performance 2day, wer u?

But this is turnin into a WC thread so I'll answer the q...

I would never stop watching the game but I would be upset if Cal Ripken, Jeter, Ortiz, Pedro M, etc etc.

Oh yeah, of course Barry Bonds aswel :laugh

[Red Sox Rule]

Agree with u there & wasnt really impressed by our performance 2day, wer u?

But this is turnin into a WC thread so I'll answer the q...

I would never stop watching the game but I would be upset if Cal Ripken, Jeter, Ortiz, Pedro M, etc etc.

Oh yeah, of course Barry Bonds aswel :laugh

Yeah it is a bit go to the other sport thread and you'll find my views there

[Mattingly]

Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Bernie Williams all get my vote. I'd definitely need to take a week or so away from here.

[BoSox Rule]

Wouldn't stop loving baseball but:

Pedro
Nomar
Ortiz
Manny

[Outta Here]

I'd definitely need to take a week or so away from here.

To re-group ;)

[Francoeurstein]

Jeff Francoeur
Chipper Jones
John Smoltz
Tim Hudson

[steveironcity]

Mitchell Freedman


Yeah, also id stop watching if that Gentry fellow who got red tagged tested positive.

[Chelle]

If Rafael Palmeiro gets bustes for steroid, Ill kill myself!!!


Oops!!

Oh my goodness. You're really funny. No..actually I was wrong. You're just annoying.

[Brownie31]

There is no one in baseball that I am so enrapt of that
it would affect my affection for baseball. Certainly many
more are probably using than the ones we hear about,
just as probably many more than the Black Sox and
Hal Chase were tanking ball games years ago.

It would be no great surprise to me if every ball
player tested positive for steroids just as it would
not shock me if every senator and congressman
had thousands in cold cash in their refrigerators.

It was around the time I was in grade school that
I quit beliving in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.

Brownie31

[csh19792001]

Barry Bonds.

:hp

[Mattingly]

To re-group ;)
No, more to figure out my priorities.

Kinda like if one of your best friends had passed on, though that may be stretching it a bit. Still, you will have to look back at that person's meaning to you, all the great times you've shared and enjoyed. Now they're gone eternally. There's no reversing the process. It's all in the history books. They're memories and nothing more.

Jeter, Bernie and Mo have been home-grown Yankee maintays for quite awhile now, and along with Posada, much longer than about any other team's players with the same team, with all having played the 1996 season. Honorable mention of course to Houston's own Biggio & Bagwell.

Let's just say it would take a bit of adjusting, my being with my fellow Yankee and other baseball fans, and a few long threads here on BBF. To think that all of those great moments could've been tarnished would be something very difficult to handle. One simple reason why I hope that that day will never come true.

[SoxSon]

I would be beyond horrified if Varitek were caught. As far as not being a fan anymore, I don't know...but it would take me a while to get past that news.

[redban]

I would be really dissapointed of Mike Piazza got caught...

But I doubt he used it.He seemed to have a normal career,and he actually declined as he got older.

[Outta Here]

No, more to figure out my priorities.

Kinda like if one of your best friends had passed on, though that may be stretching it a bit. Still, you will have to look back at that person's meaning to you, all the great times you've shared and enjoyed. Now they're gone eternally. There's no reversing the process. It's all in the history books. They're memories and nothing more.

Jeter, Bernie and Mo have been home-grown Yankee maintays for quite awhile now, and along with Posada, much longer than about any other team's players with the same team, with all having played the 1996 season. Honorable mention of course to Houston's own Biggio & Bagwell.

Let's just say it would take a bit of adjusting, my being with my fellow Yankee and other baseball fans, and a few long threads here on BBF. To think that all of those great moments could've been tarnished would be something very difficult to handle. One simple reason why I hope that that day will never come true.

Thanks 4 clearin it up. Good post & I think you'll be alright as none of these guys should be that dumb ;)

[Sultan_1895-1948]

Wouldn't stop loving baseball but:

Pedro
Nomar
Ortiz
Manny

ummm....how bout those Bruins !

[VTSoxFan]

I would be beyond horrified if Varitek were caught. As far as not being a fan anymore, I don't know...but it would take me a while to get past that news.

Spot-on, Soxson. Such news would pull the ground from under my feet, baseballwise.

That being said, I've been a baseball fan through rough times and bad news (cancelled World Series) and the fall of one player, no matter how beloved, could not make me no longer love The Game.

[SoxSon]

Spot-on, Soxson. Such news would pull the ground from under my feet, baseballwise.

That being said, I've been a baseball fan through rough times and bad news (cancelled World Series) and the fall of one player, no matter how beloved, could make me no longer love The Game.

I know you're right, Annie. But the more I imagine a scenario in which Varitek is caught, the more sick to my stomach I get. It would change my view of baseball for a looooong time. :ughh

[lostzuli]

Neifi Perez, he's so worthless steroids would only make him worse.

If he starts juicing, then I'm done.

[baseball junkie]

For me only one player could have that effect. And I'd only stop watching MLB cause I love minor league baseball too much to quit it.

Roger Clemens. That would just taint everything.

[Yankee Legend]

Probably Derek Jeter or Alex Rodriguez. Derek Jeter especially since he's my favorite player and has a lot of dignity. But I know he wouldn't be so stupid as to do that with all his endorsement deals. I for one am an optomist and believe that for the most part, the steriod and performance enhancing drug era is over.

[DodgerBlue8188]

I wouldn't stop watching. But I'd be dissapointed if Jeter, Wright, Frank Thomas.

[mojorisin71]

That being said, I've been a baseball fan through rough times and bad news (cancelled World Series) and the fall of one player, no matter how beloved, could make me no longer love The Game.

Good call.

If I survived the cancellation of the World Series, I don't think anything could make me quit as a baseball fan.

[Boston Boxer]

Bud Selig!

[The Big C]

Well, as many have said, I wouldn't stop watching, but I would be saddened if any of the following players were found to be using:

Greg Maddux
Ken Griffey Jr.
Ichiro
Derrek Lee
Alex Rodriguez
Albert Pujols

[ESPNFan]

Yeah, also id stop watching if that Gentry fellow who got red tagged tested positive.

Steve you win the ultra random Major League obscure movie refrence contest congrats!!!!:clapping :clapping :clapping

[Metal Ed]

Nobody.

In order for that to happen, I'd have to be completely shocked and disgusted; a 0-60 type reaction. I'm already on cruise control at 30 mph. Nobody would surprise me at this point with what's available to these players. If you're only looking at players who "bulk up" then you're missing the entire picture.


Nail on the head, Sultan. I don't think I'll ever stop watching baseball.

[JohnGelnarFan]

Brandon Fahey of the Orioles. He's 160 pounds,ringing wet right now,but already has 2 homers since being called up.

[Chelle]

Brandon Fahey of the Orioles. He's 160 pounds,ringing wet right now,but already has 2 homers since being called up.

When he hit the HR in the Yankees/O's game, the Yankee fans in my section started chanting "steriods, steriods" LOL!

[Big_Mac]

i wouldnt stop watching baseball but if some classy and favorite players like Ripken, Gywnn, Griffey, Pujols, Maddux or Glavine ever tested positive or it was found that they did, it would sadden me and completey embarrass baseball.

[1935,1945,1968,1984]

Good call.

If I survived the cancellation of the World Series, I don't think anything could make me quit as a baseball fan.

Here's the biggest SIN baseball has done thus far. Project with me if you will? A 1994 WS of Indians vs. Expos? Would Washington get a team? Would the 1948 Indians (mini curse) be lifted? I think the 94 Indians beat the 94 Expos, but who knows?

[125osprey]

Clemens and Maddux.

I think they are two of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game. I would be very disillusioned if evidence arises indicating steroid use.

[slaytanicsdmf]

Clemens and Maddux.

I think they are two of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game. I would be very disillusioned if evidence arises indicating steroid use.

That would be choice. If Randy Johnson or John Smoltz had done it it would plain piss me off.

[csh19792001]

I wouldn't stop watching.

Neither would I. I'd discount the individual's career, and ascribe it to his personal choice. I wouldn't write off an entire sport (the one I care about above and beyond all others) because any one guy got caught doping.

If I found out the World Series was fixed, though, and that there were many previously unrelated complicit parties....now that would be much harder to accept.

[west coast orange and black]

as others have written, i could not - would not - write off the entire game.
even if a world series is found to be fixed, that would not do it. i mean, presidencies have been fixed, so i think that i could handle a ws situation.

[Brownie31]

as others have written, i could not - would not - write off the entire game.
even if a world series is found to be fixed, that would not do it. i mean, presidencies have been fixed, so i think that i could handle a ws situation.

To paraphrase Arnold Rothstein, the only
thing that can't be fixed is the weather.

Brownie31

[Captain Cold Nose]

Strikes and overcommercialization and seeing the teams I follow lose and lose and lose and Pete Rose apologists and a too-few-team-acknowledging national media haven't chased me off. The steroid scandal is just another problem the sport has come across and will overcome. Anyone who's going to walk away over this after all the blots over the years just really never was a fan to begin with.

[tyberesk]

I'd have to say either the Commissioner(Mr. Selig) or.....Don Zimmer(as a coach)

[Blackout]

jason grimsley

[Erik Bedard]

I would actually be HAPPY if Johnny Damon was caught using steroids.

That said, my answer to the stated question has to be Brian Roberts.

[raider917]

the 94 strike has come and gone and im still watching. i dont think any certain player being on steroids would matter much to me now. ever since the strike, ive stopped paying a lot of attention to any individual players ad focusing on the teams instead.

watching the yankees and red sox lose will always be fun to see.

[hudsonharden]

Cal Ripken, Jr.
Derek Jeter
Omar Vizquel
David Wright
Mark Mulder

[STLCards2]

Cal Ripken, Jr.
Derek Jeter
Omar Vizquel
David Wright
Mark Mulder

Hey! Do you want to trade Mulder back for Haren?

[W_Marone]

Neifi Perez, he's so worthless steroids would only make him worse.

If he starts juicing, then I'm done.

I dont Neifi Perez on steroids is enough to make even the most casul baseball fan to stop watching baseball hahaha....he's garbage..

I could never stop watching baseball....only be disappointed in some of the players.

Ken

[-Ru1n]

Jeter
Pujols
B. Williams
Mariano Rivera

[Indianagol]

No one person testing positive would stop me from watching.

I'm more worried of how many major leaguers would use performance enhancers. Say, if 20% or 30% would test positive, I would stop watching because than it wouldn't be baseball anymore. I don't believe it would even be a sport.

[Williamsburg2599]

Bud Selig!
you stole my joke:grouchy I thought the same thing when I saw this thread:cool:


How about Ichiro?:D If he was caught,I'd be in too much shock to watch baseball.

[Sultan_1895-1948]

No one person testing positive would stop me from watching.

I'm more worried of how many major leaguers would use performance enhancers. Say, if 20% or 30% would test positive, I would stop watching because than it wouldn't be baseball anymore. I don't believe it would even be a sport.

Depends on if you consider home run derby a sport. That's pretty much what we have.

20-30%? Sounds low if we're to include all forms of steroids and HGH. If 7% tested positive just for steroids, when they had prior warning of tests, what percent would it have been with no warning..20? 25? Throw HGH into the mix; something not even tested for, I believe the number would blow your mind. Over/Under at 60% sounds conservative to me.

[UTforever22]

if it ever came out that "the thrill" will clark used roids i would be dissapointed. He is my all time favorite player, but i don't know that i would be shocked, he did play with a lot of roid users. Palmero at MSU, Big mac with the 2000 cardinals, Bonds with the giants, Pudge, Juan-gone and Canseaco? with Texas

[Erik Bedard]

George Herman Ruth.

[wilkerson_rulz-06]

Barry Bonds :rolleyes:

[AznInvasion]

I would probably just hate the users of steroids and HGH but I wouldn't stop watching. Especially not the braves games.

Players I would be angry at if they used:

Albert Pujols
Adam Dunn
Jim Thome
David Ortiz
Andruw Jones
Roger Clemens
Curt Schilling
Travis Hafner

Basically any DH who uses would be a complete joke.

[tommybaseball]

Derek Jeter.

[Skin & Bones]

Don Zimmer.

[RBi]

2 players...

Paul Bako...

or

Henry Blanco...

;)

[rwolfe09]

Jason Giambi..err wait..uhh crap..nevermind.

[BaseballHistoryNut]

Roger Clemens. It wouldn't cause me to give up baseball, but it would be very hard for me to handle, emotionally.

BHN

[strosfan]

Without a doubt, Craig Biggio!

[malt-tones]

Bud Selig and George Steinbrenner

[Sweet Lou]

The Phillie Phanatic. :(

[1905 Giants]

Ichiro
Jamie Moyer
Adrian Beltre
Raul Ibanez
Ken Griffey Jr.
Randy Johnson
Alex Rodriguez
David Bell

[Mariano_Rivera]

I wouldn`t stop but I would seriously consider if any 1 of these guys tested positive:
A-Rod

Mariano Rivera

Jason Giambi

[Mariano_Rivera]

The Phillie Phanatic. :(
Interesting.... :crazy :crazy :crazy