Way too go Dan!! The humor added should help ease some of the anxiety he maybe feeling or may not, lol!! At least you can say that you tried!

Posted by: Carla | January 9, 2008 04:06 PM

I dont' like Roger Clemens and I'm not an American League baseball fan.

I didn't like him with the Astros.

And I especially don't like him whining about not taking steriods.

I wouldn't waste my time on him.

Cute letter, but he is just an arrogant....well, fill-in-the-blank...and probably pitched it (NO pun intended) after the first sentence.

Posted by: Tamara | January 9, 2008 07:41 PM

MAN, PETA really loves publicity stunts :P

Posted by: Caboose | January 9, 2008 09:04 PM

...you are kidding. Right?

THIS is the solution to all of his problems? Were you serious when you suggested that he should play at home because of vegan food at a stadium? Want to know how many people consider this? Zero.

Seriously, stick to what you know. This is laughably inept.

Posted by: e | January 9, 2008 10:45 PM

Great letter, from us here in Ireland supporting animal rights!!!

Posted by: John Carmody | January 10, 2008 07:46 AM

HEY, I GOT ANOTHER GREAT IDEA...ALSO ASK HIM TO SWEAR OFF USING LEATHER BASEBALL GLOVES, LEATHER CLEATS AND HORSEHIDE BASEBALLS....

YOU GUYS ARE REALLY GRASPING FOR STRAWS OR MAYBE YOU GUYS ARE DOING STEROIDS....

Posted by: COMMON SENSE STEVE | January 10, 2008 08:32 AM

Common Nonsense Steve: How could PETA ask him to swear off leather when there are such dumb suckers in this world like you who are still addicted to animal hatred! PETA has to walk step by step in order to avoid stressing floor wankers like you!

Posted by: freedom for animals | January 10, 2008 11:14 AM

The NBA used non-leather basketballs for a while, but Shaq whined and "complained" (not the word I wanted to use, really) enough that I think they stopped.

I live in St Louis and I do wonder how Tony LaRussa (STL Cardinals Manager and vegetarian) can manage with leather baseballs and all those leather gloves. I just wonder if it occurs to him, you know?

Posted by: Tamara | January 10, 2008 03:20 PM

MR OR MS FREEDOM....
I AM NOT ADDICTED TO ANIMAL HATRED. WHAT I AM ADDICTED TO IS HATING HYPOCRITICAL, UN-REALISTIC PETAPHILES WHO SO MUCH WANT TO LOVE ANIMALS TO THE POINT OF HATING HUMANS WHO DO NOT FOLLOW PETA'S RIDICULOUS AGENDA....

PS... I REALLY LOVE IT WHEN YOU BLOGGERS ANSWER MY COMMENTS WITH PATHETIC ATTEMPTS OF A PUT DOWN WITH OUT REALLY ANSWERING THE POINTS MADE....
2ND PS... I ALWAYS HERE ABOUT PETA EDUCATING INSTEAD OF FORCING THEIR AGENDA DOWN THE WORLD'S THROAT.... WHO THE HELL GAVE PETA THE RIGHT TO EDUCATE?

Posted by: COMMON SENSE STEVE | January 10, 2008 04:43 PM

TAMARA: THE WORD IS HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!!!!!

AND SHAC COMPLAINED BECAUSE THE NON-LEATHER BALLS SUCKED. SO THEY STOPPED KISSING THE ANIMAL RIGHTIST'S ASSES AND WENT BACK TO THE REAL DEAL.....LEATHER WHICH IS USED IN ALMOST EVERY SPORT THERE IS..... BUT PETA KNOW'S BETTER THAN TO ATTACK THE ENTIRE SPORT'S WORLD.... IT WOULD BE BAD P.R.

Posted by: COMMON SENSE STEVE | January 10, 2008 05:18 PM

common nonsense steve: instead of your poison-filled critisism about PETA's so-called 'hypocrite agenda wanting to put down the world's throat' you should start to use your damaged brain if it's not already completely rotten! PETA is fighting against cruelty towards animals - not like you for the interest of some consumer protection jerks who just want to fill their pockets with blood-money coming out of the throats of tortured animals! you belching sourpuss of an aborted orc - i shall show you the way out of this blog making your life so miserable that you will leave in tiddlywinks - you smoked waxcuck - i throw you into the next quagmire!

Posted by: Dick the Whale | January 10, 2008 06:04 PM

it amuses me every day more to see how our common nonsense steve is barking into the void: welcome you tiny nobody - so we can hate on you - this is a great tranquilizer and is diverting the blogowner!

Posted by: silent tongue | January 10, 2008 06:11 PM

to the bad steve: it's you who are a pathetic hypocrite because you want to display some police orders here but you are just a paid trouble maker and nothing else and furthermore you are always repeating the same boring old shit from yesterday.....

Posted by: bernardo san felice | January 10, 2008 06:19 PM

COMMON NONSENSE STEVE: SHUT YOUR BORING MOUTH AND BRING SOMETHING NEW - WE ARE WAITING!

Posted by: PETAPHILE | January 10, 2008 06:26 PM

Common-sense Steve (yeah right, just because you call yourself something does not mean we are going to believe it's true), you make no sense whatsoever.

As far as who gave PETA rights to educate, Americans have their Constitution with the Bill of Rights, Canadians have their Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and presumably most other countries have similar constitutions that allow people and organizations to "educate". Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, The Humane Society, etc, are all able to do what they do because of various rights accorded to them by their countries' bills of rights.

You are a pathetic individual who continues to waste his time fighting against people who are compassionate and selfless and who only want to speak for our fellow earthlings who do not have a voice.

You have no credibility because you spend so much time criticizing us, instead of spending time helping others (humans or non-human animals). Get yourself involved in a worthy cause and leave us alone.

Posted by: Michele | January 10, 2008 10:08 PM

Dude ^^^
its pps not 2nd ps
and if yu dont like it
bug off
unless ofcourse you dont have a life

personaly i support PETA with almost everything they do

Posted by: clevaclogs | January 11, 2008 07:17 AM

I think it may be worth noting that Clemens and teammate Andy Petitte go on annual church-sponsored hunts in the forests with their young children! Going veg. would be a quantum leap for this "person".

Posted by: Gerry Ardigliano | January 11, 2008 12:04 PM

A lot of baseball players go hunting---horrible.

Posted by: Ana | January 11, 2008 03:31 PM

HI Steve!

Respectfully, I wonder if you think it may be possible to help humans and animals at the same time?

Steroids such as HGH cause cancer and even create cancers that do not get cured by chemotherapy! So maybe by helping animals, we can help humans too!

I can think of many more examples, like the fact that a vegetarian or even semi-vegetarian diet can be healthy for humans!

Also, if we help endangered species by protecting the rainforest, and preventing deforestation, we can protect plants that give us medicine.

Digitalis which is used to treat heart disease comes from plants, and many rainforest trees have anti-cancer medicine and medicine that may cure AIDS.

So I think it can be a win-win situation! What do you think?

;)

Posted by: Anonymous | January 11, 2008 04:17 PM

Steve,

Sorry, my question to you was signed Anonymous, not sure how that keeps happening.

Maya

Posted by: Maya, CVT | January 11, 2008 05:13 PM

Tamara,

I can help answer your question. Tony LaRussa isn't insane. He's able to still function in society without preaching his diet to everyone else.

If he weren't sane he'd just go around preaching to everybody about how they should be like him and do what he does.

Posted by: Common Sense Jay | January 11, 2008 05:53 PM

this idea makes no sense at all... its a cheap publicity stunt... there is nothing legitimate in that letter! its just to get attention...

Posted by: Nefarian | January 11, 2008 07:40 PM

hey anonymous... if this was the case,,, i'd say yeah,,,win - win but this is not the case; with the peta execs especially ingrid whose quote of "she would be against a cure for aids if it came from animal research" takes your comments and makes them unrealistic...
the majority of petaphiles believe in animals first, human's second, maybe even third... there lack of compassion for the human race is quite evident in the way they treat non peta agenda followers....

and how win-win is when peta members go over the edge and become alf members and put human life in danger with arson.....

Posted by: common sense steve | January 11, 2008 09:36 PM

This Peta organization is built on lies. They claim chickens are pumped full of hormones but I can guarantee you they can't give me a name of a single hormone used. Thats because there are none! The poultry industry does NOT use hormones. They claim they are against drugs in food, but would they rather have sick animals suffer with no medicine or be treated by antibiotics to improve their quality of life?

Posted by: Petey | January 11, 2008 11:34 PM

Petey,

Can you provide a link regarding PETA, chicken and hormones? Since you also used the plural 'lies', I'd be interested in you providing a few more examples.

Posted by: Mike Quinoa | January 12, 2008 03:29 PM

Mike,

Instead of asking for a link, read the letter at the top of the page. it's a letter from PETA, that mentions CHICKENS and HORMONES. That satisfies all 3 aspects of your request, correct?

Posted by: Mike's an idiot | January 12, 2008 05:33 PM

Common Sense Steve: In response to your comment about Ingrid being against drugs resulting from animal reasearch, think about this. The majority of "diseases" in this country (obesity, heart disease, diabetes, etc.) could be prevented by people eating healthy and excercising and not smoking. Most people refuse to make any lifestyle changes to improve their health. That being the case, why on earth should one single animal die for one of these people?? I agree with Ingrid wholeheartedly--

Posted by: Anonymous | January 13, 2008 01:22 PM

Petey,

I was asking you to provide an outside link verifying your statement that chickens aren't administered growth hormones (we both are aware of PETA's stance)—but, never mind I've researched it myself. Based on what I was able to dig up, you are correct—since DES was banned no chicken growth hormones have been used (at least in the US).

But since you posted the broad and dismissive generalization that the "Peta organization is built on lies", I'm asking you for a few more examples (excluding this blog). They shouldn't be so hard to provide, should they?

Posted by: Mike Quinoa | January 13, 2008 03:42 PM

You know, all this bickering just detracts from the actual subject at hand. Some of you act as if you are still five years old in the playground at school.

Is this helping further the cause of animal rights? Is putting down someone helping sway their mind to PETA's side?

If you are against PETA, provide some evidence for your arguement ... and vice versa to help put the naysayers to rest.

Petaphiles? Honestly.

Posted by: Kristina | January 14, 2008 12:08 AM

to 'Mike's an idiot': offenders are always present on this blog with their unintelligent rude language: didn't you have a mother to educate you foulmouth? and please know that Mike is not at all an idiot but very intelligent and much smarter than you!

Posted by: Gentleman | January 14, 2008 02:52 PM

Petey,

I was asking you to provide an outside link verifying your statement that chickens aren't administered growth hormones (we both are aware of PETA's stance)—but, never mind I've researched it myself. Based on what I was able to dig up, you are correct—since DES was banned no chicken growth hormones have been used (at least in the US).

But since you posted the broad and dismissive generalization (assertion) that the "Peta organization is built on lies", I'm asking you for a few more examples (excluding this blog). They shouldn't be so hard to provide, should they?

Posted by: Mike Quinoa | January 15, 2008 02:05 PM

Thanks for your kind words, Gentleman!

Posted by: Mike Quinoa | January 16, 2008 02:03 PM

kristina
bickering? to sway anti petas like steve?
how often have you checked this site in the past months to see how many times over and over and over again people have tried to intelligently explain things to steve, but he always comes right back with more sinister remarks?

he gets paid for it by anti peta groups!!!!!
he tries to sway people away from peta!!!!

yes what is said to him is helping the cause because he has to keep being reminded that we are strong no matter what he says since he tries to sway people away.

give it a try with him yourself. see how far you get before making misjudgements.

Posted by: anonymous | January 20, 2008 01:03 PM

i keep forgetting, is it mr or ms anonymous: either way... please get the facts straight...some thing peta rarely does....

i do not get paid by any group but if anybody wants to throw me a few dollars, my pockets are available...

i believe in the freedom of choice and the freedom to run my life as i see it as long as i don't break any laws.... i do not want to hear from anyone telling me what i can or cannot eat, wear or use gains in the medical world derived from animal research..

i think that the majority of petaphiles are hypocrital because they do not follow the entire peta agenda and that includes the majority of your celebrity stable... which means they are totally uncredible in what any of them have to say...

and i will never be swayed by what you say... because even though i truly respect that the majority of you believe in what you are saying, i do not find what you and your big money propaganda machines are saying is intelligent....its rhetoric that deals with people's emotions instead of fact and realism...

and yes you may be strong and loud and vengeful, but because of this... i will keep on fighting your's and peta's injustice to the human race.... which you all give very little care to...

Posted by: common sense steve | January 21, 2008 10:13 PM

CommonSenseSteve: If your big concern is with the injustice experienced by the human race, then why not spend your time working to make improvements to that instead of criticizing everyone trying to help animals??? I can't focus on everything and my cause of choice is that of Animal Rights. You are free to fight for the cause of humans, if you like.

Posted by: Antigone1000 | February 7, 2008 07:24 PM