Melky Cabrera suspended 50 games without pay after testing positive for testosterone
 

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal

Just announced by #MLB: #SFGiants' Melky Cabrera suspended 50 games without pay after testing positive for testosterone.
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Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal

Cabrera suspension effective immediately. Out for rest of season. #SFGiants

Whoa....

ROFL Haha

The Low T Center was a bad idea...

Called it. /GMDM

Atlanta hates that guy LMAO

LMAO LMAO

So much for NL MVP talks.

Big Daddy's gonna be pissed.

this dude was the entire hype and star of the All Star game and he ****ing cheated

lol MLB

He got a new camero out of the deal!

Rany Jazayerli ‏@jazayerli

Honestly, if the Royals could foist Francoeur on the Giants as Melky's replacement, that would be the funniest thing ever.

This must be done. This HAS to be done.

But what about the tshirts? /Toby Cook

Wow

His season is over and he's potentially lost millions of future dollars.

LMAO

ROFL

Well he is in San Francisco.

So if Guthrie remains servicable, perhaps the melky trade isn't one of the worst trades in the history of mlb?

HAHAHAHA, holy sh#t what a f'n loser.

ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL

Dayton Moore is dancing a damn jig right now.

This is Our OJ simpson verdict /white royals fans

I would like to laugh, but frankly i have already written off baseball for the year.

I hate it when i do that, but i guess a couple decades of futility does have an effect.

ROFL

LA baseball FTMFW

Couldn't have happened to a better franchise

Well this news certainly still makes the Sanchez deal still look like shit.

It's pretty bad when we can trade off a player who gets suspended for 50 games and still be the losers of the lopsided deal.

Dayton?!?!!?

Is that you?!!?

I don't know ... guthrie has looked pretty good lately.

At least they know Frenchy is clean. He can't hit for shit.

He can still win the NL batting title.

Can't wait to see what those dorky SF Giant fans who dressed up like Milk Men will be wearing as costumes.

Hats off to Melky. He didn't run from it, didn't say "Oh I'm just so manly which is why I have high test and I drank Whisky the night before" like Floyd Landis, or make some gay story up. He accepted responsibility, said he was wrong. Good job IMO

As a Dodger fan, i m ok with this. One good hitter out for the year during the race for the pennant!

This really friggen sucks

At least they are not attempting to kill opposing fans in their parking lot.

Eric Hosmer needs to take some freaking PEDs.

ROFL


sorry



ROFL ROFL

Buster Olney ‏@Buster_ESPN
Melky was like a bank robber who did everything right in his plan to steal millions – right up until moment his getaway car ran out of gas.
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:LOL:

Damn skippy

Awesome. ROFL

It never was.

So does GMDM get somewhat of a pass for his trade with this news? We all knew Melky's numbers even last year were out of the ordinary and likely not sustainable. And turns out they weren't. Melky was a cheater with fake numbers and Sanchez just plained sucked. It was a lose/lose situation it turns out.

You watch baseball?

I guess Dayton Moore truly is a genius.

umm ... as much as the standard depressed and abused Royals fan does.

:shrug:

Sounds like he needs to hire Ryan Braun's lawyer

Trade Francouer for nothing now

They just kill their own....

A San Carlos man pleaded guilty Thursday to involuntary manslaughter for throwing a punch that killed a Giants fan outside AT&T Park in 2008, attorneys said.

Under a plea agreement announced the day his trial was supposed to start, Taylor Buckley, 20, will be sentenced to one year in jail and five years' probation for the death of 18-year-old Anthony Giraudo of Redwood City.

Buckley was an 18-year-old senior at Carlmont High School in Belmont on May 9, 2008, when he punched Giraudo, a freshman at Cañada College in Redwood City, during an argument outside the ballpark.

Giraudo, a pitcher on his college's baseball team, fell and struck his head on the concrete. He died the next day.

San Francisco prosecutors charged Buckley with involuntary manslaughter instead of murder because they concluded he had not intended to kill Giraudo.

Buckley, who has been free on bail, was handcuffed and remanded into custody after accepting the plea agreement. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 22.

Buckley's attorney, Douglas Horngrad, said the deal was identical to one the defense offered almost three years ago. "We have thought this was a fair disposition for quite some time now," he said.

Horngrad said his client has been remorseful since the incident and called Giraudo's death "a tragedy all around."

"When you play a role in the event in which someone loses their life, you never get over it," Horngrad said. "I don't think Taylor will get over it, and the Giraudo family, who buried a child, will never get over it."


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articl...#ixzz23kPeM8w9

They just kill their own....

A San Carlos man pleaded guilty Thursday to involuntary manslaughter for throwing a punch that killed a Giants fan outside AT&T Park in 2008, attorneys said.

Under a plea agreement announced the day his trial was supposed to start, Taylor Buckley, 20, will be sentenced to one year in jail and five years' probation for the death of 18-year-old Anthony Giraudo of Redwood City.

Buckley was an 18-year-old senior at Carlmont High School in Belmont on May 9, 2008, when he punched Giraudo, a freshman at Cañada College in Redwood City, during an argument outside the ballpark.

Giraudo, a pitcher on his college's baseball team, fell and struck his head on the concrete. He died the next day.

San Francisco prosecutors charged Buckley with involuntary manslaughter instead of murder because they concluded he had not intended to kill Giraudo.

Buckley, who has been free on bail, was handcuffed and remanded into custody after accepting the plea agreement. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 22.

Buckley's attorney, Douglas Horngrad, said the deal was identical to one the defense offered almost three years ago. "We have thought this was a fair disposition for quite some time now," he said.

Horngrad said his client has been remorseful since the incident and called Giraudo's death "a tragedy all around."

"When you play a role in the event in which someone loses their life, you never get over it," Horngrad said. "I don't think Taylor will get over it, and the Giraudo family, who buried a child, will never get over it."


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articl...#ixzz23kPeM8w9

This was disappointing to hear. I really like Melky.

His name is Melky?

That's what happens when Dodger fans come up here. YOu forget opening day with the father that got beat into a coma in front of his kids for being a Giants fan. What is it with you guys

BTW, Gotta love Victor Conte. That guy is going to be a thorn in the side of MLB for the rest of his life.

It is safe to assume that these kind, innocent Giants fans that you speak of are also Niner fans. How did those fans welcome the Oakland Raider fans last pre season? It looked like a prison yard fight/riot on tv.

Niners should be good this year. Come on man, we all know the Raiders fans start everything.

My FBB team is dropping like flies lately. Bautista, Konerko, Melky, Cuddyer.

Melky will still win the batting title. Heh.

We have had our fair share of experiences with Raider fans in Oakland bro! I still remember when our group came over to meet you for a mini tailgate after the Chiefs at Niners game and we missed our ride. I asked a cop if we could walk to a bus stop to get out of the area because there were no taxis left.

He told us, we call people who walk out of this stadium 1 thing....





victims.

LMAO Indeed

You don't want to be hoofing it through Hunters Point.

Agreed. Much tougher than the KCK 9th St, Paseo, Argentine projects!

Dont get too optimistic in Vegas about the Niners. When I was in SF a couple of weeks ago the local hack spouted a great stat. Of the 27 clubs who accomplished what the Niners did (3'sh wins to 10 plus) over the past 10 years only 3 won more than 8 plus games the following year.

He might win the NL batting Title. Hilarious if he does.



http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/2...ting-title/rss



Major League Baseball appears unlikely to interfere if Melky Cabrera wins the NL batting title while serving his 50-game suspension for a positive drug test.

The San Francisco Giants outfielder began Wednesday with a league-leading .346 average, seven points ahead of Pittsburgh's Andrew McCutchen.

Cabrera has 501 plate appearances, one fewer than the required amount if the Giants play 162 games. Under section 10.22(a) of the Official Baseball Rules, he would win the batting title if an extra hitless at-bat is added to his average and it remains higher than that of any other qualifying player.

"We'll see how it all plays out," commissioner Bud Selig said Wednesday after taping an episode of CenterStage for the YES Network. "We generally don't interfere in that process. We'll take a look at it at the end of the year."

Cabrera, the All-Star Game MVP, was suspended Aug. 15 for a positive test for testosterone and is missing the final 45 games of the regular season.

During the YES interview, scheduled to air for the first time Sept. 27, Selig was asked whether records set during the Steroids Era should be revisited.

"You can't change records because once you get into that it would never stop," Selig said. "It would create more problems than it would solve."

Selig did say he was pleased an agreement was reached Tuesday to suspend Toronto shortstop Yunel Escobar for three games for wearing eye-black displaying an anti-gay slur written in Spanish during a game last weekend against Boston.

"When something like that happens, it's disappointing," Selig said.

Selig would not indicate whether he was closer to making a decision on the dispute between the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants. Oakland wants to build a ballpark in San Jose, which is part of the Giants' territory, and Selig appointed a committee in March 2009 to evaluate the issue.

"The committee has been working very hard," he said.

He's shouldn't be eligible for it since he's suspended.

Why not? If he got suspended for the last three games of the season for criticizing an umpire, would he not be eligible?

Because criticizing an umpire doesn't enhance one's performance perhaps?

I believe that if any player gets caught using PEDs in a season, aside from being suspended, they should forefit any "best player" awards they would have earned that season.

I realize that is not the case right now... but it should be.

50 games is a bit different than 3. :rolleyes:

Especially the circumstances that brought on the suspension.

Missing 30% of a season due to suspension should disqualify you.

Well, MLB isnt the NCAA, like the commish said, its opening a huge can of worms if you try to go back and strip records away.

Hes met the eligible number of at bats.

Its the impropriety that should make him ineligible.

That rule isn't in place, however.

Sounds like the Giants don't want him back for the playoff run. I am sure he would give up the award in a second to have a shot at the post season.

That's different than saying "because he's suspended".

pro sports in America...

football - a commissioner with an ego the size of Asia he will run around suspending players and stripping coaches of duties if they fart wrong just because he wants to

baseball - a commissioner that is afraid to take a batting title away and is unsure if he is even allowed.


if Goodell was the baseball commissioner he would have had Melky kidnapped in the middle of the night and locked away in Guantanamo Bay

:facepalm:

Well, I figured a person of average intelligence, and familiar with this situation, could understand WTF I was referring to.

overstate much?

I think that's what he may have been going for

I had him on my fantasy team this season n I picked him thinking he wasent done balling with us and I was not wrong...he balled outrageously...im saying this cus I really like him and I really liked him when he was playing for us last year but selig should NOT let him win the batting title **** that he does not deserve it...if barry bonds and mcguire dont get into the hall why the hell should melky get the batting title?

Well...no one has the opportunity to give a yes or no vote for the batting champion. MLB would have to interfere (rightfully so in this case, IMO) in the simple accumulation of numbers.

Or Andrew McCutchen could get his ass in gear.

yup, that slacker and his .339 BA

:)

Heh. All he has to do is hit about .600 the rest of the way. Don't break out the calculator; I pulled that number completely out of my ass.

Maybe there could be a website or something designed to plead Melky's case. If only...

Or Melky did the smart thing and said he wouldn't accept the award.