STEROIDPALOOZA: Jack Cust named in Mitchell Report

by wonderbread74 on Dec 13, 2007 11:55 AM PST

Paul Bunyan didn't use steroids, but Jack Cust does.

Make that seven current or former Athletics named in the Mitchell Report.

A's designated hitter, Jack Cust, was named in connection to former Baltimore outfielder Larry Bigbie. According to the report, Cust told Bigbie he already a steroid supplier.

At the beginning of the 2003 season, Cust and Larry Bigbie were both playing for Baltimore’s class AAA affiliate in Ottawa. Bigbie’s locker was next to Cust’s. Cust eventually asked Bigbie if he had ever tried steroids. Bigbie acknowledged he had, and Cust said that he, too, had tried steroids. Cust told Bigbie that he had a source who could procure anything he
wanted, but Bigbie informed him he already had a friend who could supply him.

I suppose if Billy Beane wanted Barry Bonds as his DH in 2008, he now knows he already had a user at the position.

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so basically

you're just advertising your blog?

this is already being discussed on the main page and in the mitchell report open thread.

A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Dec 13, 2007 11:47 AM PST reply actions

Big deal

Let the guy advertise or do whatever. Some of us don't have time to sift through all the other comments to find the A's information.

"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did." -Yogi Berra

by brenarlo on Dec 13, 2007 11:49 AM PST up reply actions

I'd say that A's players named ...

are legitimate news on an A's blog.

Cust was not mentioned in either the front page story or the content of the open thread diary. Most readers of this site (even fairly active ones, like myself) don't read through the 100s of comments in threads like those.

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by devo on Dec 13, 2007 11:52 AM PST up reply actions