Raul Ibanez
I was thinking about this kid, Jerod Morris, and his supposedly accusatory comments toward Raul Ibanez about potential steriod use. I realize that this is a dead horse that continues to be beaten but I just wanted to put in my two cents.
As a Mariner fan, I have been a Raul fan for the past few years when he was with us. Becasue of this, I know how prone to hot streaks he is. In fact, it seems like every year there is like a month and a half where he just owns everyone and everything. I think this fact is very lost to most people simply because where he played, he played for a small market team and his streaks were less publicized. I have heard announcers say countless times something along the lines of "If Raul Ibanez played for (insert Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, etc...) he would be a superstar." Now that he has moved from Seattle to a large market team, a team that just won the world series, he is in much more of a spotlight. His production didn't "come from nowhere," he has hot spots like this every year, the only difference is the amount of media he is getting this year.
I don't think it was Morris' intention to call out Raul as a steroid user, I think he was making a simple statement that in these times, unexpected production and publicity also brings steroid suspicion. I just wish that he knew Raul as I have before made it.
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Wait.
I don’t think it was Morris’ intention to call out Raul as a steroid user, I think he was making a simple statement that in these times, unexpected production and publicity also brings steroid suspicion. I just wish that he knew Raul as I have before made it.
If you acknowledge that Morris did not intend to call Raul out, then why do you wish he knew Raul like you do before he made his statement?
Also, a) Morris is not a kid, and b) Raul does not typically go on 2+ month long hot streaks in which his OPS stays well above 1.000. Although it’s certainly due to his move to a new league & ballpark, his production this year is still an aberration.
by katal on Jun 13, 2009 8:59 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Actually
He has done this before. On multiple occassions. Read this.
I never really liked the old tagline.
CougCenter
by Dancing Football on Jun 13, 2009 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Linking to the Phillies' SBN site has nothing to do with what I wrote.
by katal on Jun 13, 2009 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oops
Messed up the link.
I never really liked the old tagline.
CougCenter
by Dancing Football on Jun 13, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also also
I just wish that he knew Raul as I have before made it.
Do you know Raul in the sense of “we hang out and watch TV together and go bowling” or do you know him in the sense of “I’ve seen him play since he was a rookie?” If the answer is the latter, you don’t know Raul and can’t possibly know whether he did or did not do something.
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by pdb on Jun 13, 2009 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I didn't mean that I know him personally.
What I meant was that I wish he understood that this wasn’t unnatural hitting for Raul before connecting Ibanez name with steroids in any way. I’m not saying that he was actually accusing Ibanez in any way, I was jus saying that the connection has been made and now it can never be totally broken.
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by Slow Country on Jun 13, 2009 6:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
re: "b) Raul does not typically go on 2+ month long hot streaks in which his OPS stays well above 1.000."
Did you read the Posnanski article?
by marc w on Jun 13, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Raul has had 50+ game streaks of performance like this the past few years, read Posanski
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by BrettJMiller on Jun 13, 2009 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
's article.
WTF. For some reason, preview came up while I was typing, and I guess I was typing too fast, and somehow one of those keys I hit equaled “post”…hm. My bad.
Yesterday's Pants
A blog-thingy about the Mariners and stuff.
by BrettJMiller on Jun 13, 2009 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
There's already like 3 posts about this.
by Matthew on Jun 13, 2009 11:04 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I can't believe we traded Raul Ibanez for Erik Bedard
by Fett42 on Jun 13, 2009 12:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
And nobody knows we did it.
Not even Erik
by Robert on Jun 13, 2009 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Seattle is not a small market.
Call it playing on the west coast that kept Raul’s “greatness” from the masses, but Seattle is in no way a small market.
Awaiting the day I catch a Russell Branyan foul ball. I will make love to it.
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by JLProck on Jun 13, 2009 4:50 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Seattle is an ignored market.
Seattle is the kind of team that has to win 116 games for the east coast to give a shit about them.
by Fin on Jun 13, 2009 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pretty much everyone in the MSM picked the A's to win the AL going into the playoffs.
by acblue on Jun 13, 2009 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pretty much everyone in the mainstream media are retards.
Awaiting the day I catch a Russell Branyan foul ball. I will make love to it.
Preserved In All His Greatness - R.I.P. The Reignman 1989 to 1997
by JLProck on Jun 14, 2009 1:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, that didn't come out right.
Awaiting the day I catch a Russell Branyan foul ball. I will make love to it.
Preserved In All His Greatness - R.I.P. The Reignman 1989 to 1997
by JLProck on Jun 18, 2009 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

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