southsider2k5 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 15, 2012 -> 02:41 PM) He won't qualify, I don't believe. Not enough PA's. edit: he was one PA away from qualifying. Ha, that is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 He won't qualify, I don't believe. Not enough PA's. edit: he was one PA away from qualifying. If the Giants have a rainout that isn't made up, he would then qualify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 15, 2012 -> 02:35 PM) Safe to say he wouldn't have been anywhere close to the huge payday without the assistance? Good point. I guess I should say that this ruling has cost him a huge payday. So Jonathan Sanchez still sucks, but that trade suddenly doesn't look as bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 15, 2012 -> 03:55 PM) If the Giants have a rainout that isn't made up, he would then qualify. Their April 22nd game against the Mets was postponed and I don't obviously see a makeup date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 15, 2012 -> 02:42 PM) In this case I will allow it, because it is true. I resent and agree with this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 15, 2012 -> 02:57 PM) Their April 22nd game against the Mets was postponed and I don't obviously see a makeup date. They are tied for 1st with Dodgers at the moment. If that race stays close, I'm sure they will make it happen, like the Sox/Tigers in 2008. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 15, 2012 -> 04:08 PM) They are tied for 1st with Dodgers at the moment. If that race stays close, I'm sure they will make it happen, like the Sox/Tigers in 2008. Of course, losing one of their best hitters will make it harder for them to stay in that race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chetkincaid Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Wow. He rolled the dice and got nailed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 This tells me there are still quite a few players taking things they shouldn't be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 He’d be available for a theoretical NLCS. So Bud Selig. If it were Bettman the suspension would allow him for the post season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Apparently Cabrera's camp tried to "invent" a supplement to blame the positive test on. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball...ticle-1.1139623 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 10:10 AM) Apparently Cabrera's camp tried to "invent" a supplement to blame the positive test on. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball...ticle-1.1139623 This is truly impressive. I do like that he blew $10 grand on trying to set up an official looking website to fool MLB. I don't like that he may not suffer any additional punishment for it...that ought to be a violation of some rule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 09:10 AM) Apparently Cabrera's camp tried to "invent" a supplement to blame the positive test on. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball...ticle-1.1139623 This is the greatest attempt to get out of something ever. Beats Ryan Braun's bulls***. Kudos to him for trying. Hilarious that he got caught. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiSox_Sonix Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Go Daddy should put him in one of their next commercials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 05:40 PM) This is the greatest attempt to get out of something ever. Beats Ryan Braun's bulls***. Kudos to him for trying. Hilarious that he got caught. It seems that Ryan Braun getting off on a BS technicality is what made Cabrera think this Wile E Coyote s*** had a chance of actually working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 19, 2012 -> 05:27 PM) This is truly impressive. I do like that he blew $10 grand on trying to set up an official looking website to fool MLB. I don't like that he may not suffer any additional punishment for it...that ought to be a violation of some rule. He may indeed get in trouble for it. Feds are looking into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Continues to impress. Investigators from Major League Baseball, hot on the trail for a product Melky Cabrera led them to believe caused him to inadvertently fail a drug test, traveled to the Dominican Republic, acquired a jar of it and sent the substance to the World Anti-Doping Agency's testing labs in Utah before discovering weeks later it was only part of an elaborate cover-up, the New York Daily News has reported. In preparation for an arbitration hearing the Players' Association had sought on behalf of Cabrera, MLB officials told the union it wanted to test the substance, which Cabrera claimed was featured in a website advertisement he had come across, the Daily News reported, citing an unnamed source familiar with the case. "The union said you can go to this website and buy it. There's a phone number on the site," the source said, according to a story posted online Monday night. "They called the phone number and they went to a town in the Dominican Republic and bought it from a guy." An associate of the San Francisco Giants All-Star outfielder's had purchased a website and attempted to create evidence to support Cabrera's story. Baseball officials uncovered the scheme as Cabrera prepared his case to challenge the test. Cabrera's grievance then was dropped, and MLB announced a 50-game suspension Wednesday. A team of six to seven investigators from MLB spent several weeks working to uncover the plan, a baseball official familiar with the probe told The Associated Press. A second baseball official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said additional discipline against Cabrera was unlikely. It's the first such case MLB has had and officials hope that uncovering the scheme will discourage similar attempts. "This is not a simple scheme," a source familiar with the investigation told the Daily News. "There was a lot to it." Juan Nunez, who works with Cabrera's agents, purchased an existing website and attempted to alter it in a manner that would allow Cabrera to claim the positive test was caused by a substance obtained through the website, a baseball source confirmed to The Associated Press. The News reported Nunez paid $10,000 for the website. "If you create a new website, you would know when the website was created," the baseball official said. "At least they were smart enough to buy an existing website." The baseball official said MLB investigators were able to use their forensic resources to trace the website back to Nunez. "What they did was they bought an existing Spanish-language website that sold health products -- actually, they bought three websites," a source familiar with the case told the Daily News, also quoted in Monday night's online story. "They just stuck a banner up on it. It had a product ad and a picture of the jar. It was all in Spanish." All three websites have been taken offline, according to the report. Once the World Anti-Doping Agency authenticated the product as containing synthetic testosterone, after tests in its accredited labs in Salt Lake City, questions of the substance's legitimacy began to circulate among MLB officials, the report said. The website advertisement was then given a closer examination and discovered for what it was -- a fraud. "They acquired more than one website to advertise a product they created," the Daily News source familiar with the case said. "It was outlandish enough that Major League Baseball could go to the Dominican Republic and buy it from some guy." Cabrera is represented by brothers Sam and Seth Levinson of ACES, a sports management company based in Brooklyn. The Levinsons told the Daily News that Nunez was a "paid consultant" of their agency. "The MLBPA has clearly stated that ACES has no connection to the website or this matter and, as reported, Juan Nunez has taken full responsibility for his acts," Seth Levinson told The Associated Press. "There is nothing more we can add and we will allow our reputation in the industry for 27 years to speak for itself." The second baseball official said MLB intends to ask the Major League Baseball Players Association, which regulates agents, to follow up on the situation at ACES. The "no additional punishment" part is really irksome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justBLAZE Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Man what a scumbag haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Anyone got the website address? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Anyone got the website address? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 21, 2012 -> 10:13 PM) Anyone got the website address? It got taken down a long time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 More at link http://www.csnbayarea.com/baseball-san-fra...mp;feedID=10850 SAN FRANCISCO – In an unprecedented agreement between Major League Baseball and union officials, suspended Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera will be ruled ineligible to win the 2012 NL batting title, sources told CSNBayArea.com. Cabrera asked to be removed from consideration on Wednesday, when his representatives sent a letter to union officials. The Players’ Association worked out a one-time amendment to Rule 10.22(a) with MLB officials on Thursday, one day after Commissioner Bud Selig said publicly that he was not likely to take action on the matter. Cabrera, who is hitting .346, will finish one plate appearance short of qualifying for the batting title. Rule 10.22(a) permits a player to be recognized as the official winner if extra hitless at-bats are added to his average and it remains higher than any qualifying player. (Cabrera’s average would fall from .3464 to .3456 – still .346 when rounded up.) Under terms of the agreement, Rule 10.22(a) will not apply to suspended players. Cabrera’s request to refuse the extra at-bat is a clear attempt to rehab his public image and market value, both of which were tarnished by his Aug. 15 suspension for testing positive for testosterone. The 27-year-old switch hitter sustained further damage to his reputation through subsequent revelations that a liaison paid by his agents, the Levinson brothers, created a phony Web site and product in an attempt to persuade the league that Cabrera inadvertently took a banned substance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Bummer, I was hoping he would win it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Bob Nightengale @BNightengale Melky Cabrera: I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted. I believe it would be far better for someone more deserving to win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Well, then, I guess it's now time to remove any statistics of anyone ever busted for roids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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