Talk:Sammy Sosa

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Contents 1 Steroid Suspicions 2 2007 3 School 4 Hop 5 Baninter 6 Clean-up 7 Copy Editing 8 HR score 9 Congressional steroid committee 10 List of home runs 11 Vandalism of article

[edit] Steroid Suspicions

I think it would be best to add a new section for steroid suspicions and expanding on the couple of sentences in the current article. Does anyone else have thoughts on that? (Dossett 22:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC))

Anything to be added would have to be cited from a reputable source publication. Wikipedia does not and cannot deal in rumor or suspicion, especially in the case of living persons. Jpers36 23:02, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Naturally. I think something like "Sammy Sosa was suspected of steroid use" would have numerous reputable citations available. That's different than "Sammy Sosa used steroids." The steroid controversy around him is real. (Dossett 23:58, 4 June 2007 (UTC))

Better would be, "Publication X made these claims about Sosa's steroid use", or "Columnist Y of newspaper Z pointed out these factors that imply Sosa used steroids." i.e., refer to a specific source that made specific claims. Jpers36 00:07, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I've read newspaper Z, it's a good one. 24.124.64.9 06:38, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

There was also a congressional hearing where he forgot how to speak English. It's a joke that there isn't even a single sentence about performance enhancing drugs in this bio.

[edit] 2007

New info on Sosa was added, regarding his 40 man roster add to the Rangers. It all looks and sounds good, but I believe the batting average is wrong. i read it to be .452 here: [1]

My source may be wrong, we should clear it up, though, if it is not.

• In that same article Rangers GM pretty much garauntees Sosa will start on opening day. That may be worthy of mention.

Also, his career revival with the Rangers may be worthy as its own section under, possibly "2007, with the Rangers" or something like that. Right now it's under 06-07 off-season, which is also accurate. Does anyone care? (Mythos721 17:54, 16 March 2007 (UTC))

I modified this entry to reflect the 2007 portion as such, dividing the "2006, and beyond" into one titled 2006, and one called 2007. However, there is still the matter of his actual batting average, or maybe it doesn't matter, since it will change. (Mythos721 18:43, 16 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] School

where did sammy go to school and college? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.148.204.185 (talk)

Sosa didn't go to college. He grew up in poverty in the Dominican Republic, and was signed at the age of 16. Jpers36 22:28, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps someone should add that he didn't go to college. I would do it myself but I'm hardly an authority on Sammy Sosa, just a casual fan. --J.a.f.a.c. 05:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

BTW, why does it state that Sammy is Cuban? (in the categories) --Meph1986 02:13, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hop

I think something about his trademark hop should be included. --Chitomcgee 03:17, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baninter

What does the Baninter scandal have to do with Sosa? It's unclear why it's linked to at the bottom. --jdickert 12:29, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

There is serious vandalism on this right now that I am about to remove. I am shocked that no one has removed this previously Thetaxmancometh 02:09, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Someone managed to slip it back in again. I've removed it again. -- Rogerborg 16:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Someone out there doesn't know the difference between BALCO and Banco. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.116.211.3 (talk) 22:13, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-up

This article needs some serious grammatical clean-up. I'd do it but the page is semi-protected.216.146.94.235 15:48, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Because so many IP's keep changing "Sammy" to "Corkey"...which is not at all funny. 阿修羅96 16:05, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

This line from the first paragraph seems fake... "For example he suffered a back injury and a concussion from sneezing on two separate occasions which are two unusual injuries"--Sebtlfr 03:27, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copy Editing

A couple of days ago, I did some copy editing or "clean-up" of the article. If you think anything was changed that should not have been, let me know here.

Thanks.

Justus R 21:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HR score

Since I do not know how the cited source goes with editing but... Sammy is only 21 HR's away from breaking Aarons HR record... MLB.com 67.168.132.134 05:42, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

never mind I'm a moron 67.168.132.134 05:43, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congressional steroid committee

Shouldn't this be mentioned somewhere? Socby19 (talk) 22:08, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I have to agree. Seems like that should definitely be in here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.135.210.244 (talk) 21:42, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

This still hasn't been addressed. Socby19 (talk) 20:18, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

So what's stopping you from researching it? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 22:16, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I do see it as an important potential part of the article. However, I don't see myself as the best person to edit it as such. Wikipedia is meant as a community where people help with and/or take other's suggestions.Socby19 (talk) 06:05, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of home runs

First off I don't know why this is listed.... second off... since he's presumably retiring, can't we make this humongous table a 2-column table? It isn't very wide. Bohsocks (talk) 01:24, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism of article

Administrators: Please read article and note that someone has tampered with the text of this article in several places. I tried to report "vandalism" but couldn't follow the complicated directions to do so.Apace361 (talk) 17:04, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Looks like someone's working on fixing the IP address vandalisms. Did they catch everything? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 19:22, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I went throught the history and reverted a bunch of edits since April 17. I'm pretty sure I was careful to remove only vandalism, but feel free to double check. -Phoenixrod (talk) 19:30, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

If a single IP or other vandal has been messing with things and intervening editors fail to observe it, what I usually do is revert to the point just before the vandal got started, then compare the results to see if any legitimate edits got rubbed out, and add them back in as needed. That's a more efficient way to do it. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 19:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)