tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8673413627090761779.post6581179426816864762..comments2023-10-26T08:15:54.829-05:00Comments on The Ghost of Roy Hobbs: All Jacked UpUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8673413627090761779.post-30950479416297407852009-02-20T09:43:00.000-06:002009-02-20T09:43:00.000-06:00The term "performance enhancing" substances is way...The term "performance enhancing" substances is way to general. The only reason steroids give an unfair advantage is because they are illegal and not everyone can get them or is willing to face the consequences of using. Aside from they make you freakishly big and strong. If it were legal across the board to use HGH/steroids then everyone would/could be on the same playing field.<BR/><BR/>Here is my list of "performance enhancing substances<BR/><BR/>Pot: Video Games, Ski, Snowboarding, Swimming, swimming with sharks, post sexy time smoothness (whip out a blunt after having sexy time...she'll do things....), curling, shuffle board<BR/><BR/>Steroids/HGH: Blowout hair cuts, being a douche bag, beating your girlfriend, Football, Basketball, Baseball, most sports you see in main stream television<BR/><BR/>coke: Professional Speed talking, speed texting, NASCAR<BR/><BR/>Gatorade: Soccer, Baseball, basketball, football, little league, ski and snowboarding...every sport ever<BR/><BR/>and the most NOTORIOUS performance enhancing drug....food...food is a proven gateway to other more serious substances and life threatening substances. There is also a clear distinction in performance between those who use "food", street name "grub" and "eats", and those who do notbrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776387878262815212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8673413627090761779.post-46559011520641668472009-02-19T14:35:00.000-06:002009-02-19T14:35:00.000-06:00Good points, and I'll add one more.This Steroid/HG...Good points, and I'll add one more.<BR/><BR/>This Steroid/HGH thing is just a generational problem. If we've learned anything from this it's the fact that the dopers are one step ahead of the testers. So who's to say that the next generation of players will be doing something that the leagues/unions will not be ready to test.Steve Lattimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16150473421615296165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8673413627090761779.post-40120685919625356282009-02-19T14:08:00.000-06:002009-02-19T14:08:00.000-06:00RE: A-Rod is the latest casualty of this whole deb...RE: <I>A-Rod is the latest casualty of this whole debacle...</I><BR/><BR/>A-Rod is no casualty. He brought this on himself. <BR/><BR/>Now I have a bit of empathy for these users; If everyone is doing it and making kajillions of dollars in the process, and the League is willfully turning a blind eye. <BR/><BR/>My biggest problem with the entire thing is the anonymity concerning the Club House Rule, which keeps everything in House. <BR/><BR/>Were I player, I'd love this rule. But I'm not. Every player is under suspicion. Think of the best clean player in the game right now (subjective answers). Can you really say that you'd be surprised at this point were he to come out and say "I took this or that"? <BR/><BR/>You wouldn't and that's the worst part. If the names get out, we can move on quickly. But the Union and honestly a bit of human decency won't let that happen, so it will be a long, more drawn out, more taxing process. <BR/><BR/>But a welcome process, anyway.Zack Stovallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16622157607930062439noreply@blogger.com