http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseb...0(0,2966399).story?coll=ny-top-span-headlines Meet the Mets, meet the Mets Come to the park and smoke weed with the Mets Dimebags, roaches all out at Shea Guaranteed to be lit up today...
Who mentioned anything about pot as being a scapegoat? Scapegoat for what? And I swear these idiots at Newsday have nothing better to write about. Surprised it didn't come out of the Post.
This story is so dumb. They could have written this crap about any team in American professional sports and it'd have some truth.
Ahhh.... but do you have the picture to go along with it? You couldn't do it about any pro sports team because the NFL and I believe the NHL do drug tests which cover pot, the NBA is a forgone conclusion that the entire league does it, but with baseball it's quite a bit different. True, there aren't any drug tests, but how many managers are legitimately concerned about it, so much that they goto the GM about it. How many organizations have this problem rampant through the minor league system as to have this said about them.... "One of the friends said that Mets minor leaguers have been known to bury marijuana and drug paraphernalia near hotels on the road in order to access it on the next trip to town." How pathetic is that? I wonder how many baggies of pot they've lost cause they buried it when they were stoned and can't remember where it was? "Dude... I thought we put it over here by this bush?" "No way man, it was by this tree. S**t man... screw it, it's gone. Next time we should wait till we're sober before we bury it." "Haha, ok, rock on dude." When you have players smoking up in the parking lot "regulary" on game days, you got a problem. I dunno how Doc Ellis pitched a no-hitter on acid in 1970, but I can't imagine it's too easy to play a MLB game when you're ripped.
How seriously can you take this story with a line like this?? "None of the Mets contacted made any connection between the team's miserable 2002 season and drug use. However, medical experts say marijuana use can impair coordination." Please. However, it's worth it for that picture alone.
Yeah, finding a coorelation between the two is kind of a stretch. Hell... the '86 Mets weren't too busy screwing teamates wives in the clubhouses during games, blowing lines of coke constantly, cutting girlfriends cat's heads off, beating each other up, and holding each other hostage in paranoia of the police, to win a world series. This team looks like freaking pussies compared to that team. I'm sure Kevin Mitchell and Daryl Strawberry take pride in being the worst-best team in baseball the same way the '72 Dolphins take pride in being the only undefeated team ever.
OK, this bat is heavy man. Now don't throw that curve ball at me. In fact, you better just toss it under-hand so I can lay down for a minute. Whoa, you're pinstripes are messing me up. They just POP!
Mike Piazza claims he doesn't smoke up but signing on to do those 10-10-220 commercial does raise doubts.
http://msn.espn.go.com/gammons/s/2002/0921/1434858.html Peter Gammons: Claims Bobby V is the unnamed Mets source. Either Bobby V or Phillips will have to go.
I think if you work with Bradshaw you can smoke dope, IF the taping takes place in a state with medicinal marijuana laws.
Ahhh.... I love how in the picture he is toking up while wearing a Syracuse cap. Great advertising for my alma mater. I think I'll send that picture in to the alumni website and ask that it be used for all of the school's promotional materials. As for the story, pretty bad stuff if there is a hint of truth to it. I've always suspected that drug use has been high among professional sports, but baseball's lax testing rules just seem to invite abuse. And there is not enough mind-altering substances in the world which would convince me that working with Terry Bradshaw would be a good idea.
Very excited that they had a press conference just to clear up the issues on the marijuana issues for the Mets. It's bad enough that the Mets post-season dreams ended months ago, but to have our little sideshow circus go on is just amazing. God this would make one interesting reality tv show. The Real World: Shea Stadium.
Come on, if you were playing as badly as the Mets were this year, wouldn't you want to partake in some herbal refreshment?
The (possibly old and tired) joke going around is that the Mets are planning on signing Jung Bong so that he can be on the same team as Leiter. By the way, this story was about on par in terms of newsworthiness with an expose on the woodland defecation habits of bears. Doesn't anyone remember the baseball dudes in high school? I think there was a rule that you couldn't be on the team if you passed a drug test.