“I don’t like baseball being singled out. Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs. I don’t know how they managed to skate by. It irritates me. Don’t tell me it’s not more prevalent. The number in football is at least twice as many. Look at the speed and size of those players.”

A lot of baseball people thought that baseball would be the last sport that it would be a problem in and probably just ignored it too long. But the fact is it’s been in football a long time and it’s been in basketball, I’m sure. Why baseball is being singled out, I don’t know. I don’t know. I know all the excuses — `Well, it’s America’s game and it’s the statistics.’” 

- New York Yankees Senior Vice President Hank Steinbrenner on the steroid issue in Major League Baseball compared to the National Football League.

Just in case you needed another reason to the hate the New York Yankees, Hank Steinbrenner is your man.

Of course he thinks the NFL has a bigger steroid problem – Jason Giambi, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte all were accused of using performance enhancing drugs in the Mitchell Report.

I miss George Steinbrenner already compared to this clown.

TAGS: New York Yankees, Steroids

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