{"id":299,"date":"2007-10-02T00:08:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2008-11-15T22:10:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T03:10:32","slug":"cheating-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/299\/cheating-backwards","title":{"rendered":"Cheating Backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, if a player was getting into steroids, HGH, flaxseed oil or whatnot, it usually meant they were about to make the leap from an okay player to a living highlight reel and record-setting superman. So where, I ask you, are all of our chemically-enhanced Roy Hobbses? Are you telling me there were 15 good years of rampant cheating and all this team could come up with was Schoenie?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scott Schoeneweis, the veteran New York Mets reliever and a survivor of testiticular cancer, received six steroid shipments from Signature Pharmacy while playing for the Chicago White Sox in 2003 and 2004, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=3045585\">ESPN has learned<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering, Schoeneweis&#8217; lines during the seasons in question were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2002: 4.88 ERA, 118 IP, 49 BB, 65K<\/li>\n<li>2003: 4.18 ERA, 64.7 IP, 19 BB, 56 K<\/li>\n<li>2004: 5.59 ERA, 112.7 IP, 49BB, 59K<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While it&#8217;s always good to hear that someone beat cancer or found a way to recover from an otherwise debilitating surgery, this is still depressing for all the wrong reasons. Think about it: while performance-enhancing drugs gave the Orioles, Cubs, Giants, A&#8217;s, Rangers and Cardinals a wealth of home run heroes, all the Good Guys have to show for a decade of a lawless sport is a guy who took the steroid that actually makes you into a worse pitcher. Other fans were treated to future Hall of Famers; all we got was a gaping hole at the back end of the rotation that cost the Sox the 2004 AL Central championship.<\/p>\n<p>Let this be a lesson to all you youngsters out there: cheaters never win, they just finish 9 games behind the Twins. God I hate this team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say it ain&#8217;t Schoeneweis, Scott! Say it ain&#8217;t Schoe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[71,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}