The Giambi Drama by Danyel Jones For more other/recent articles on steroids or drugs in baseball please follow this link When the San Francisco chronicle recently printed Jason Giambi’s testimony to the grand jury from the BALCO hearings in December 2003, the reporters in New York went ballistic labeling Giambi “a disgrace” and the fans were outraged.Mike Vaccaro from the New York Post wrote: “Giambi lied to you, and that is the most unforgivable sin, that’s why he can never wear pinstripes again, why he needs to be exiled and shamed to ponder how he polluted his career.” Jason Giambi, Major League Baseball’s poster boy, admitted that he injected human growth hormone into his stomach, testosterone into his behind, rubbed an undetectable steroid known as “the cream” on his body and placed drops of another steroid, called “the clear” under his tongue for three seasons. I am in complete shock! Well, of course that’s just my New York sarcasm. Is just me? Or was I the only one that noticed that Giambi looked like a beast in the 2003 season? Then on February 23, 2004, when Giambi reported to spring training at Legends Field in Tampa, he looked as if he just was released from rehab. I don’t want to insult anyone, but in my opinion you had to be a complete idiot or very naive to believe Giambi’s claims that he had only lost four pounds. New York, New York, the City that never sleeps. The very same city that experienced 9/11, the city that has bomb sniffing dogs on every other corner like Starbucks. Do New Yorkers really expect the rest of the world to believe that they had no idea Giambi was on the juice? In all fairness, some New Yorkers may have been unaware of Giambi’s steroid use, but what about the almighty Yankees? George Steinbrenner and his exceptionally talented sidekick GM Brian Cashman, signed Giambi to a 120 million dollar, seven-year deal and they didn’t have a clue Giambi was involved with steroids? Flip Bundy in the New York Daily News wrote: “while the Yankees cynically scour that fine print in Jason Giambi’s contract, hoping to disengage themselves from a steroid pariah we would do well to consider their moral outrage in revile such hypocrisy, such gall.” Is it possible that the New York Yankees, a franchise so rich in tradition, would be willing to look the other way when one of their key players are using steroids just to win? Rumors of Giambi’s steroid use started way before he put on the pinstripes. Now the Yankees are looking for a way out of paying Giambi 82 million for the next four seasons. According to Lisa Olsen form the daily news, The Yankees are basing their plan of attack on Paragraph 7 (1) of the uniform player’s contract, which says that “a club may terminate a contract if the player should fail, refuse or neglect to conform his personal contract to the standards of good citizenship and good sportsmanship,” and on Paragraph 3 (a) titled loyalty which says: “The player agrees to perform his services hereunder diligently and faithfully, to keep himself in first- class physical condition and to obey the clubs training rules and pledges himself in to the American and to the club to conform to high standards of personal conduct, fair play and good sportsmanship.” A deteriorating Giambi who only managed to play 80 games in the 2004 season because of an assortment of injuries, released a statement through his agent Arn Tellen stating that “he is determined, focused and working hard to return to form in 2005 and help the Yankees get back to the world series.” Steinbrenner, who began last season publicly criticizing Yankees captain Derek Jeter for his off the field activities and scrutinized Joe Torre for putting Kenny Lofton in right field when Sheffield’s arm was close to popping out of its socket, has yet to make any statements. It will be very interesting to see how this story plays out. Share your thoughts or comments in our forums |
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