{"id":314,"date":"2005-08-01T18:24:38","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T22:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2005-08-01T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T22:24:38","slug":"i-didnt-take-no-stereos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/08\/01\/i-didnt-take-no-stereos\/","title":{"rendered":"i didn&#8217;t take no stereos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry, Rafael is full of shit. His story changes from &#8220;I&#8217;ve never done steroids, period&#8221; to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=2121659\">I never knowingly took steroids<\/a>&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Give me a break.<\/p>\n<p>Remember a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Johnson_%28athlete%29\">certain sprinter<\/a> who claimed someone put steroids in his water? Palmeiro is alluding to the same kind of thing now, although I&#8217;m sure the story will be refined over the next few days to the belief that he was taking some kind of vitamin complex. <\/p>\n<p>In this day and age, how can you possibly just blindly in(jec\/ges)t what someone gives you? Plameiro is now stating that no one should take things from someone who&#8217;s not a licensed physician. So who was he taking stuff from? What, exactly, was he nailed on? Does anyone other than me think &#8220;don&#8217;t ask questions, and plead ignorance later&#8221; isn&#8217;t an excuse?<\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s cutting him slack because he sounded so earnest about not taking steroids during the congressional hearings. <em>Whaaaaaaat?<\/em> Politicians sound ernest, too, when they&#8217;re campaigning. Makes you kinda wonder if Canseco really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/02\/10\/60minutes\/main673138.shtml\">was lying<\/a>, don&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s currently tainted, and the holier-than-thou facade has crumbled, because it sure didn&#8217;t sound like denial or a plea of innocence coming out of his mouth. It could be that he tested positive for a by-product or banned substance that are produced by over-the-counter medicines, but you&#8217;d think if that was the case he&#8217;d be outlining what happened. The fact that he&#8217;s not saying anything other than it being unintentional makes me think &#8220;<em>suuure<\/em> you didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amiright.com\/parody\/70s\/themanhattans1.shtml\">take no stereos<\/a>&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry, Rafael is full of shit. His story changes from &#8220;I&#8217;ve never done steroids, period&#8221; to &#8220;I never knowingly took steroids&#8221;. Give me a break. Remember a certain sprinter who claimed someone put steroids in his water? Palmeiro is alluding to the same kind of thing now, although I&#8217;m sure the story will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}