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No Cork in Sosa's 76 Bats Tested by MLB
Who, that makes me breathe a little sigh of relief. I was so distraught yesterday when I heard that they found cork in a bat that Sammy used against the Devil Rays yesterday. He made a base hit, broke his bat, and the umpire saw cork in the middle of that bat. Sammy explained that he used it for batting practice, to make homers for the fans. He grabbed it by mistake.
I was worried. I don't know if you guys know how much of a hero Sammy is here. How the bleachers at Wrigley go crazy when he runs to the outfield, patting his heart and kissing his forefingers and pointing to the crowd. What a great sport he was during the homerun race with McGwire. He even had a cartoon shown last year, going over his life. I cried. Ok, I teared up. I really admired him.
Then this happened, and no matter how it turns out, there will now be that little bit of doubt. I'm happy that it truely looks like it was just a mistake, which Sammy admitted to, but man, this sucks! I really don't think he's guilty, but personally I think it could ruin any chance he has of breaking the record again and having people think he did it legitimately. Hopefully he doesn't get suspended. Even though he's been sucking since he came back from his toe injury, I'd love to see him keep on playing. Who knew a toe was so important to making home runs? Samson had his hair. Sammy has his toe.
Please don't suspend Sammy.
Get well, Sammy's toe!
Posted by Yano at June 5, 2003 12:31 AMI totally agree! I could not believe all this happened. I seen all the interviews with Sammy and he really looked sorry. I don't think they should suspend him cause he didn't mean it and it was proven that they didn't find any cork in any other bat. yah so I agree. He is too good of a guy to do something like that anyways.
Posted by: Teri on June 5, 2003 02:32 PM
