I am not a sports guy.
I don't pay attention to such things actually.
So if even I recognize that the ball players at the center of a bunch of these steroid use stories came out of the Texas Ranger baseball team, then why isn't this a subject of interest.
According to what I read on the inter-net, "In April 1989, a time believed to be the onset of steroid use in baseball, Bush bought the Texas Rangers and served as managing general partner for five years. He actively led the team’s projects and by the time he sold his shares in the Rangers in 1998 he was able to turn a profit of $15 million from his initial $800,000 investment. Clearly he had benefited from the success of the now flourishing game in what was then deemed the juiced-ball area. What we later came to find out was it wasn’t the ball that was juiced."
picture and quote from :http://highbridnation.com/2009/02/10/why-george-w-bush-is-responsible-for-steroids-in-baseball/
OK, now here is the question. What did George W. Bush know about steroid use on his team and when did he know it? Seems a fair question. I mean if a guy can authorized torture of prisoners, why couldn't he have juiced up his players to make the team more valuable. Wouldn't "Baseball" like to understand this period of its history?
I don't pay attention to such things actually.
So if even I recognize that the ball players at the center of a bunch of these steroid use stories came out of the Texas Ranger baseball team, then why isn't this a subject of interest.
According to what I read on the inter-net, "In April 1989, a time believed to be the onset of steroid use in baseball, Bush bought the Texas Rangers and served as managing general partner for five years. He actively led the team’s projects and by the time he sold his shares in the Rangers in 1998 he was able to turn a profit of $15 million from his initial $800,000 investment. Clearly he had benefited from the success of the now flourishing game in what was then deemed the juiced-ball area. What we later came to find out was it wasn’t the ball that was juiced."
picture and quote from :http://highbridnation.com/2009/02/10/why-george-w-bush-is-responsible-for-steroids-in-baseball/
OK, now here is the question. What did George W. Bush know about steroid use on his team and when did he know it? Seems a fair question. I mean if a guy can authorized torture of prisoners, why couldn't he have juiced up his players to make the team more valuable. Wouldn't "Baseball" like to understand this period of its history?
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While I've been trying to figure out the same thing, we likely will not get an answer. Its rare that America digs up the skeletons of a sitting President in fear of what it will do to the country let alone a former one that's been put out to pasture. Bush was a scumbag, while he likely didn't say hey...use this. He had to have heard something or had some knowledge and just kept his mouth shut.
Even as self righteous as I am, for a profit of $14 million I might even go that route, but then again I guess $14 mil in this era is chicken feed. What does that make my social security check?
On the other hand, Baseball is Sacred. Blaspheme of this magnitude won't go untold.
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