Comments on: Josh Sale, Marcus Stroman To Serve 50-Game Suspensions

By: brad hirsch

brad hirsch — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:18:43 +0000

Marcus is and always has been a winner—he will come back from this better than ever!

By: NMS

NMS — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:40:28 +0000

"Different coach; Bill Hillier had nothing to do with Stroman’s recruitment or career. But your first point — that no school has moral superiority here when it comes to PEDs — is a fair one."

Didn't mean to imply that Hillier was involved with Stroman. Rather, the Hillier comment was just to prove that attending Duke doesn't make one above taking PEDs… as evidenced by the fact that Duke baseball players in the mid 00s were (supposedly) taking them. So,

By: John Manuel

John Manuel — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:47:11 +0000

Different coach; Bill Hillier had nothing to do with Stroman’s recruitment or career. But your first point — that no school has moral superiority here when it comes to PEDs — is a fair one.

By: NMS

NMS — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:34:09 +0000

Plus, let's not forget that Duke had a baseball coach fired in the mid-00s because of, among other reasons, rumors of team wide steroid abuse.

By: NMS

NMS — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:24:51 +0000

Oh come on John. I'm don't want to make this a Duke thing, but do you really think people who attended a given institution are (for whatever reason) morally superior less likely to cheat? What a joke.

People cheat to get ahead, and it happens at a pretty equal rate regardless of their chosen academic/athletic institution

By: John

John — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:55:41 +0000

Holy cow Matt!! Would appreciate your take on Stroman. Seems at first blush to be a total lack of discipline on Stroman's part and kind of surprising for someone who attended Duke.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:00:17 +0000

If they so desired, could the Blue Jays take any course of action to void Stroman's contract based on the positive test considering the fact that it was signed so recently?