Eric Gagne Will Attempt A Comeback

What the hell is this with the automatically playing, sound video ads with the disabled pause button? That is beyond scummy.

Read your own t-shirt, Eric.
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My favorite memories of Dodger Stadium were when "Welcome to the Jungle" blarred from the soundspeaker, and Gagne came running out. 84 straight saves. That man deserves a comeback (even if they were a result of roids)

ThinkBlue that is a towel.

Hasnt Gagne already tried to resurrect his career in Milwaukee and Boston?

See you at Camelback ranch Eric!

I wouldn't mind Gagne being this year's reclamation project for the Dodgers. The one thing is that the 'pen seems pretty set. Then again, if Sherrill is traded for Jackson as has been rumored, Eric could slot in given that the Dodgers already have a dominant lefty in Kuo and the way Broxton tears up lefties.

haha, Im playing the song right now... I just had to

Kenny Powers

Does the Can Am League drug test its players?

Eric Gagne is proof that baseball is a funny game. He spent 10 years in the league, a few of them absolutely dominant, yet he earned 25% of his career salary in his last, perhaps least successful year from a team that really shouldn't have signed him and really couldn't afford to blow that much money on a closer even if he were good.

Oh the good fortune of juicing for a couple years, he'll never have to work again even though his "talent" wasn't naturally his.

I could see him being successful in his comeback if pitching in middle relief with a sub-5.00 era in a pitchers park in the National League is how far the bar is raised. No one should really expect more at this point. He'll be 34 in '10 and pretty far removed from when he was effective. Even if he is healthy that alone won't make him a good pitcher again.

It amazes me how much Dodger fans love THEIR roiders, but other roiders are baaaad!
LOL

"It amazes me how much Dodger fans love THEIR roiders, but other roiders are' baaaad!
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Please explain.

No one is condoning what Gagne is alleged to have done, but I'm sure whatever your team is was clean during that time, right? I'm only speaking to the feeling, as a Dodger fan, that we got at the stadium when we saw the guy come out of the pen.

"We all know that for a good 15 years, at least, 60% of the league was drugged up.

Posted by: lakersdodgersyankees4life | November 13, 2009 at 09:30 PM"

No, we all ASSUME so. No real proof, even if it may be blatantly obvious. It's obvious Bonds used, and we all assume he did, but it's not getting him out of HoF talks yet, is it?

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. He had an amazing run, but I think it was over a long time ago.

BTW, some may have forgotten, when he was hot, it was the big rainbow curveball that really got 'em, not the fastball.

I didnt say he should be an automatic HOF. My point was that a whole era was screwed over by roids. Fans loved it, but it could have killed the game. IMO, neither Sosa or McGwire should be HOF. Without roids, theyd probably be above average players.

Bonds got really screwed. He had ALL the talent, but went to roids because "homeruns are sexier". If Bonds gets in, it will take a LONG time...

Mark McGwire doesn't deserve to be in the HoF, steroids or not. His only skill was hitting HRs. His average was trash, his defense was trash, and he ran the bases like a one-legged midget.

I'm sorry, but 500 HR definitely doesn't deserve an automatic HoF bid.

Posted by: cubs223425 | November 14, 2009 at 02:18 AM

Spoken by a true Cubs fan. I think the jury is still out on McGwire.I want to see how he reacts to media when he comes back. Baseball thrived on McGwire, and Sosa. The fans went home happy, the Media loved it, and we all knew it was happening when it was happening. We were entertained by it, and its really all that should matter. I say put them in the Hall, their play merits it. Bonds never got screwed, he screwed himself by being a perpetual jerk, and nobody liked him. he was the poster chid of everything that was wrong in that era. But everytime he walked up to that plate, it was ELECTRIC. And it was ALWAYS a madhouse when he came to Dodger Stadium. The writers cashed in on them, and now they want to spit em out. If you keep them out of the hall, but dont release the names of the positive testers, then how can you vote anybody into the Hall from this era?

What should matter is McGuire wasnt good enough to be in the HOF...HR's..thats it..and that was obviously helped along too..so realistically, he was an average player with pop in his back thanks to PED's...

lakers: Mark McGwire doesn't deserve to be in the HoF, steroids or not. His only skill was hitting HRs. His average was trash, his defense was trash, and he ran the bases like a one-legged midget.

I'm sorry, but 500 HR definitely doesn't deserve an automatic HoF bid.

Posted by: cubs223425 | November 14, 2009 at 02:18 AM

McGwire had several talents. He obviously hit home runs (583 of them, many mammoth ones) but he also got on base (.394 OBP despite a .264 career average), when he was younger he was an above average fielding first baseman and he drove in a lot of runners (1414). So he was more than a one-trick pony and more than deserves to be in the hall.

Steroids aside - McGwire is a HOF'er. He was the most dominant player in the game for several years. As ellisburks points out, he was a top OBP guy and was a solid defender (early in his career).

If you don't think he belongs then you obviously weren't around when he and Sosa mashed like no one else before.

Im sure Eric can do some mopping up for the Dodgers. Im sure Martin wants his possible brother in law on the team.

A guy who hasn't thrown more than 52 innings in the majors since 2004 and who posted an ERA well over 4 in the Can Am League. Pass.