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First of all, anyone else remember when he was Alexis Rios?  You know, back when he was good? 

Anyway, what kind message does this send to the Blue Jays players and fans.  First, the team drools over the thought of unloading their best pitcher, then dump a suprisingly productive Scott Rolen, now give away Rios for nothing.  Absolutly nothing.   This is a team that was the surprise of the league for the first two months of the season.  Maybe we are spoiled as Yankee fans, but the thought of giving away a good player (14 hrs, 62 Rbi) does not seem like good business.  Sure he was overpaid, but don’t you owe it to the league to at least get something in return?  Now the White Sox get a free player to stick in the middle of their lineup, without having to give up anything.  You can’t fault the White Sox, fault the rules.  

What a sad time to be a Blue Jays, Pirates, or Indians fan.

In case you missed it, former White Sox pitcher Jim Parque sent a letter to the Chicago Sun Times admitting his use of HGH.   The story is long, but worth reading, especially if you are like me, have no life, and actually remember this guy pitching.  While I applaud Parque for his honesty, I really don’t understand what he was going for here.  Half the letter he sounds like he is trying to defend his drug use, half of it sounds like he is saying there is no defending what he did.  I can’t tell if he is trying to encourage other players to speak out, or defend those that have been accused.  This whole thing gets even more confusing when he had gone on record in 2007 denying any drug use.   Someone please tell me if this is supposed to be an admission of guilt, a defense, or what.  Either way, what’s the point?  It appears he’s doing fine in life now, was hardly one of the names on the Mitchell Report that anyone cared about.  I’m all for having a clear conscious, but then why now?  Was enrollment in the baseball camp starting to fall?  Is he planning another comeback?  I guess I just don’t get it.   

I’ve read it twice now, and the most memorable part of this for me is the paragraph where he described how the stuff actually worked.  If HGH could make a weiner like this throw 10 mph faster, just image how much better it made Manny, Bonds, Sosa, etc. 

Lets hope that some new side effect is found, and 5 years from now, everyone who took this stuff will have their left ear fall off so we can tell once and for all who did what, and get them and their tainted records out of the game forever.