{"id":23106,"date":"2025-06-29T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23106\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T00:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:01:16","slug":"its-completely-preposterous-to-honor-these-faces-of-the-steroid-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23106\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s completely preposterous to honor these faces of the steroid era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notes, quotes and anecdotes from the week that was. Subtitle: \u201cIf Only I Could Sit Back and Enjoy Watching Our Sports Devour Themselves Whole.\u201d But sugar pie, honey bunch, I can\u2019t help myself.<\/p>\n<p>Last week two of the most disreputable beneficiaries of MLB\u2019s and \u201cBottom Line\u201d Bud Selig\u2019s intentional neglect of what no one else could miss \u2014 MLB\u2019s cheaters-prosper Steroid Era \u2014 were honored in ceremonies by their former teams.<\/p>\n<p>Sammy Sosa \u2014 the spray-hitting little guy who one day showed up as the Michelin Man to become Babe Ruth with a corked bat, then pleaded \u201cno comprende\u201d under oath before a Congressional hearing on why the nearly impossible suddenly became routine \u2014 returned to Chicago where he was treated like a freed war hero by Cubs fans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/20\/sports\/sammy-sosa-looks-his-old-self-in-two-decade-return-to-wrigley-field\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sosa was in Chicago<\/a> to be inducted into the Cubs\u2019 Hall of Fame. Take that, Ernie Banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Notes, quotes and anecdotes from the week that was. Subtitle: \u201cIf Only I Could Sit Back and Enjoy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2746,4153,1266,1270,62,2632,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-23106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-barry-bonds","9":"tag-equal-time","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sammy-sosa","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114763719406828561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}