Great Griffey Jr Article. Will move after it gets seen (Pat Gillick Orioles Related)

[weams]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2377389-life-after-the-trade-15-years-later-fatherhood-trumps-fame-for-ken-griffey-jr?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=web-des-art-bot-86622

Neither Gillick nor Bowden recalls exactly how many phone calls it took before the deal was completed Feb. 10, 2000, but one thing is clear: Gillick, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011, inherited an extremely difficult situation.

Pat Gillick, The Mariners hired him in October 1999, and his first order of business was to handle Griffey's trade request.

"I wouldn't say I was shocked, but I was sort of surprised by Junior requesting a trade," Gillick, now senior adviser to the president and GM of the Phillies, says.

After all, Gillick said, Griffey had been the original No. 1 overall draft choice of the Mariners in 1987 and had played his entire career in Seattle.

[Redskins Rick]

2 generations of great MLB players, and the boy is playing football in college.

I guess it shows what we have talked about in other threads, this generation of kids are just not into baseball, as much as some of the other sports.

[scOtt]

Griffey, whose father played on the Big Red Machine in the 1970s, has never been suspected or accused of cheating. As he plowed through his mid- to late 30s, while some of his peers launched second stages of their careers as if by rocket booster, Griffey aged just like 30-somethings aged for decades before him. Imagine that.

Imagine that...

[murph]

One of my all-time favorite players! Always enjoyed that he did what he did clean!

[weams]

These are some of the values he tried to drive home with his own kids during those homecoming years. And as his greatness began to ebb, it was his family that provided cover as the tough times became more frequent.

Like spending all day rehabilitating an injury, then going to watch a friend play softball at 8 p.m., with sports radio callers then ripping him for daring to attend a softball game when he should be rehabbing.

Who rehabs 24 hours a day?

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees

Put 'em in a tree museum

And they charged the people

A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

[Can_of_corn]

Imagine that...

One of my all-time favorite players! Always enjoyed that he did what he did clean!

I have never heard of steroid users having issues with tendons.

We do not know who used and who didn't. Claiming someone was clean off of circumstantial evidence makes no more sense then the reverse.

[weams]

Claiming someone was clean off of circumstantial evidence makes no more sense then the reverse.

Unless they tested dirty twice in 2003, like David Ortiz. And All you have is the circumstance. Because no one is permitted to talk about it.

[Can_of_corn]

2 generations of great MLB players, and the boy is playing football in college.

I guess it shows what we have talked about in other threads, this generation of kids are just not into baseball, as much as some of the other sports.

Daniel Schlereth says Hi!

Maybe his skill set is better suited to football? Maybe he didn't want to live in his father's shadow?

[Can_of_corn]

Unless they tested dirty twice in 2003, like David Ortiz. And All you have is the circumstance. Because no one is permitted to talk about it.

Right. Unless we know for a fact that someone used I don't think we should go around declaring folks either clean or dirty.

We don't know.

[murph]

I have never heard of steroid users having issues with tendons.

We do not know who used and who didn't. Claiming someone was clean off of circumstantial evidence makes no more sense then the reverse.

As soon as I saw COC I had posted I knew it would be something along these lines. Please stop toying with my baseball player overblown adderation!

Honestly until I hear evidence otherwise I will choose to believe that he was always clean.

[Can_of_corn]

As soon as I saw COC I had posted I knew it would be something along these lines. Please stop toying with my baseball player overblown adderation!

Honestly until I hear evidence otherwise I will choose to believe that he was always clean.

I have some astrology charts to sell you.

[byrdz]

2 generations of great MLB players, and the boy is playing football in college.

I guess it shows what we have talked about in other threads, this generation of kids are just not into baseball, as much as some of the other sports.

Must not be, more money and longevity in baseball, yet they choose brain damage instead.

[Can_of_corn]

Must not be, more money and longevity in baseball, yet they choose brain damage instead.

Football doesn't have a monopoly.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2013/12/15/ryan-freel-cte-suicide-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy/4032887/

[MurphDogg]

Call me naive but I also believe that Griffey didn't use PEDs.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2368395

[crissfan172]

I have never heard of steroid users having issues with tendons.

We do not know who used and who didn't. Claiming someone was clean off of circumstantial evidence makes no more sense then the reverse.

I'm with you because I don't like to make bold proclamations about things without proof, though I suppose "innocent until proven guilty" could apply for other people.