Piazza On Steroid Use: 'I Don't Understand What Part Of No People Don't Understand'
"My denials in the book have been documented all the way back, I believe, to 1997," Piazza said. "I just don't understand what part of 'no' people don't understand."
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"My denials in the book have been documented all the way back, I believe, to 1997," Piazza said. "I just don't understand what part of 'no' people don't understand."
Coming off their fourth straight losing season, the Mets enter spring training with a projected rotation of Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Shaun Marcum, Matt Harvey and Dillon Gee, a quintet that combined to go 35-34 with a 3.26 ERA last season.
When owner Fred Wilpon announced in Florida that the financial turmoil that had long plagued and hindered the franchise for many years was now a thing of the past, a huge cloud of uncertainty was lifted.
Mets GM Sandy Alderson said he believes the review, which is being handled through MLB at the request of the U.S. Consulate in the Dominican Republic, was random and not because of suspected wrongdoing.
Spring training is all about optimism, and Mets owner Fred Wilpon delivered a large dose of it Wednesday in Port St. Lucie.
Piazza was perhaps the greatest-hitting catcher that baseball has ever seen. We'd like to assume that he was clean. But we can't.
We all know Rose is banned from baseball. Apparently that came with a banishment from Topps baseball cards.
Parnell on Wednesday morning said that he appreciated manager Terry Collins' phone call on Tuesday night -- the message basically being, "Get ready, we may need you."
"This is between you and me right now, I tell ya, because I haven't talked to anybody else," Collins said. "But tomorrow I'm gonna go to Bobby Parnell and tell him that he's gonna be the guy we're gonna gear up to pitch the ninth inning."
"Don't write the freaking book of you're not gonna come out and you're not gonna talk about it," WFAN co-host Boomer Esiason said Tuesday.
Criticized for not spending enough on free agents in recent years, the Indians splurged on another star. The Mets, a team also criticized for free-agent inactivity, missed out.
Stuart Cooke is a college baseball player and is presently taking a course on sabermetrics. He is also our By The Numbers guest blogger this week. As you will see, he discusses a pretty exclusive club.
"In my opinion -- I want to be very clear about how I present this, OK? -- if you don't think that Mike Piazza did some type of steroid, you are crazy," WFAN co-host Craig Carton said Monday morning.
NFL players are getting their pink slips and baseball's beat writers have come to life. Yep, it's that time already. Spring training. Pitchers and catchers.
Pitchers and catchers to Mets camp today. Check. Kate Upton on Tuesday. Check. Yankees pitchers and catchers same day. Check. Yep, good week ahead.
