Thread: A Rod banned. I just don't get it

"Rounders"?

Yeah, it was the lead story across the Lamestream Media yesterday even beating out the Embassy closures in the ME.

What is an "A Rod" ?

Originally Posted by The Big Fella

I was watching Fox this morning and heard that A Rod has been banned for the next year or so for taking performance enhancing drugs. WHY ? I thought he was famous for shagging some celebrity but it seems he is the highest paid baseball player in the world. I can understand athletes taking them and the likes of lance Armstrong etc but a guy that just stands there and hits a ball that's thrown at him and then runs round a circuit even a fat unfit bastard could run round

Loads of baseball players take steroids so they can whack the ball harder. They don't have to run if they can hit the moon

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Originally Posted by The Big Fella

I was watching Fox this morning and heard that A Rod has been banned for the next year or so for taking performance enhancing drugs. WHY ? I thought he was famous for shagging some celebrity but it seems he is the highest paid baseball player in the world. I can understand athletes taking them and the likes of lance Armstrong etc but a guy that just stands there and hits a ball that's thrown at him and then runs round a circuit even a fat unfit bastard could run round

Loads of baseball players take steroids so they can whack the ball harder. They don't have to run if they can hit the moon

Believe A-Rod was on the same stuff that Lance Armstrong was on which is real hard to detect - or was hard to detect. Different from a steroid I believe.

But why do you need drugs to simply hit a ball ? It isn't as if the further he hits it the more money he gets. from what I can gather he only needs to hit it out of the playing field to not even have to run round the field. How can steroids or whatever he was caught taking help him with this simple task ?

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Believe A-Rod was on the same stuff that Lance Armstrong was on which is real hard to detect - or was hard to detect. Different from a steroid I believe.

New and improved shit boon me. He is now toast. 40 before he can return. But he will appeal and while that is on going can play. This is the end.

Big Fella, how far do they run in cricket? You posted "I was watching Fox this morning" enough said.

^^concentration levels probably

Originally Posted by The Big Fella

But why do you need drugs to simply hit a ball ? It isn't as if the further he hits it the more money he gets. from what I can gather he only needs to hit it out of the playing field to not even have to run round the field. How can steroids or whatever he was caught taking help him with this simple task ?

I would love to see you hit a major league pitch. Yes pitch. Lost all respect for you dude. Have another one, you must be bloody bored to be going after baseball.

Should be banned from life for calling himself A-rod.

Originally Posted by The Big Fella

but a guy that just stands there and hits a ball that's thrown at him

good fuckin' luck

It's not really not that important or of any great value, is it?


Just sucking on society.
bringing it down...

Professional and amateur sporting world.

Originally Posted by The Big Fella

game of rounders

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

"Rounders"?

Yup, that's what it's called. We play it when we're kids. You lot televise it

Originally Posted by aging one

Big Fella, how far do they run in cricket?

He's being "British", you know. Tea is better than coffee and baseball isn't a real sport.

You have to admit though, it is really really hilarious when you see this sort of thing for the 17 thousandth time. And they know how to take a piss on themselves (or take on piss... er... you know). Because they have a sense of irony. We North Americans don't at all.

I couldn't believe it. I'm in my hotel room in Vientiane, it's pissing down outside, I turn on the TV. It's the Toronto Blue Jays playing the Orioles. I was carried straight back to 84-85, when I actually followed the game.

Don't watch it, but it's hard not to love baseball anyway.

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

It's not really not that important or of any great value, is it?

Just sucking on society.
bringing it down...

Professional and amateur sporting world.

I have been to a few MLB games throughought the US. I used to follow the Mariners when A-Rod was there.

In or around 2003 he went to Texas for a large contract. I think it was $25 million per year. Texas was a bottom feeding team and heft the Mariners, as he was free to do so.

By coincidence I attended a Mariners game that was A-Rods return to Seattle playing with Texas.

The crowd booed and throw monopoly money from the 3 level into the air.

This was the last game I ever went to.

Tickets, parking, a small cup of plastic beer and a hotdog were over-priced.

Most people that go to games seem to have corporate tickets, or at least a lot do.

It is another way to suck money out of your pocket.

As for A-Rod today, I read the article stating the Yankees would have liked him to get a lifetime ban from the game. They would not have had to fulfill the $275 million contract for him, and A-Rod numbers have diminished. He is older, lower numbers, and has injuries.

^^Just found some footage of your finest works

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier

We play it when we're kids. You lot televise it

"Rounders", or softball as it is properly known, is a girl's game in Canada, as is soccer, once the boys start getting a little hair on the nutsack.

Baseball is quite different.

^You're a little pussy - stop trying to give it the biggun

Yeah... but you're obviously British.

I can take Tae Kwan Do to change my pussyhood.

A rod for his own back.

Originally Posted by mao say dung

Don't watch it, but it's hard not to love baseball anyway.

Got that right.

Used to go as many of the home games of the Houston Astros at Enron Field as I could - renamed the faggoty Minute Maid Park but still great entertainment.

Originally Posted by mao say dung

"Rounders", or softball as it is properly known, is a girl's game in Canada, as is soccer

Hence the term "soccer fag" in America.