Steriods and Baseball

[kinggovernor]

my point that with the thousands of guys who play division one college ball or minor league baseball, the mlb consists of the top 1000 players or so. So you don't think that a guy who is coming off an injury will do something to get him back to how he was before. He is just trying to protect his job. How does are guys who are 40+ still the best pitchers in the league, especially after battling injuries the past few years. Of course he was using something to help him out, everyone should have known that. And I think most baseball insiders knew it, but hey it makes for a more exciting game which makes everyone more money. And in pro sports that is the only thing that matters.

[7960]

Originally Posted by Linzyhop

I almost feel bad for the yankees now. they -JUST- resigned Petitte and now this comes out.

For this, I'm sure there are provisions in his contract that would allow the yankees to back out legally.

[kinggovernor]

this is what I am talking about:

Former Oilers, Eagles and Dolphins defensive lineman Mike Golic, now an ESPN commentator, provided more context today for his admission last week that he used steroids when he was an NFL player.

Speaking on the Mike and Mike in the Morning show, Golic said that he used steroids "I believe it was '87 ... sometime probably in March up until the beginning of May," and that the purpose of his steroid use was to help in recovery from a shoulder injury.

"As I've said time and time again with steroids now, a lot of the time it's the fringe players, it's the guys who are trying to get to the next level, and a lot of times it's for recovery," Golic said.

Golic has two sons who are high school football players (Mike Golic Jr. has committed to Notre Dame) and he said this morning, "I told them what I did and I told them it was wrong."

"It was illegal," Golic said. "I didn't get them prescribed for me. I went and got them. I worked out at a gym and you could get them anywhere you wanted them."

Golic didn't specify which steroids he used, but he did say, "I used the old-school steroids, not the stuff they use today."

Golic's co-host, Mike Greenberg, referred to Golic's admission as "something you've addressed so many times on the air that maybe to us it's not a big deal." But this was the most detailed account that Golic has provided about his own steroid use.

ESPN's Mike Golic on Steroids: 'I Used Them and It Was Wrong' - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

[kinggovernor]

Originally Posted by Linzyhop

a ridiculously ignorant joke, sugardick.

its all about getting a competitive advantage.

[kinggovernor]

Tough guy says stimulants a problem for hockey
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 | 9:04 AM ET
CBC Sports
While the media spotlight has focused squarely on the use of steroids in baseball, a former NHL tough guy says hockey has its own doping problem.
Dave Morissette, who played a handful of games for the Montreal Canadiens during the 1999-2000 season, claims the use of stimulants is rampant in hockey.

Morissette alleges hockey players abuse ephedrine-based, over-the-counter drugs such as Sudafed and Ripped Fuel in a book by journalist Mathias Brunet. Mémoires d'un Dur à Cuire (Memories of an Enforcer), which chronicles the tough guy's 12-year hockey career, hit the shelves Monday.


Fights, stimulants, steroids and injuries are front and centre in a just-released autobiography of former Montreal Canadiens enforcer Dave Morissette, who played in the minors and 11 games for the Canadiens from 1998 to 2000. (CP PICTURE ARCHIVE - Paul Chiasson)

"The majority of the guys had their pills," Morissette is quoted as saying in Montreal's French-language daily newspaper La Presse.
"It wasn't a big deal. It was pretty common to take pills before a game. It didn't bother anyone."

An amphetamine-like stimulant, ephedrine makes the heart beat faster and increases blood pressure, allowing athletes to avoid fatigue and increase their performances during bursts of powerful effort.
Morrissette also suggests steroids are common in hockey, even though he claims never to have seen the muscle-building drugs used by his teammates.

"You don't do anything in the locker room," he told CBC Newsworld. "It's taboo."

But Morrissette does admit he used steroids to bolster his chances of earning a spot in the NHL.

"I saw some of my future rivals – such as John Kordic – training in the gym. I was going to have to be as large as him."

Also a Canadiens' fighter, Kordic died in 1992 after a long period of steroid and cocaine use.

At the time, Morrissette believed the drugs would make him a better player. Now he believes steroids robbed him of his career.

"[Steroids] didn't help me. They didn't make me a better hockey player."

Morrissette says his body couldn't support all the extra muscle he gained through steroid use.

"I had injuries ... all kinds of surgeries," he said. "I wouldn't have had [all the injuries] without steroids."

In addition to his brief stint with the Canadiens, Morissette also played in the American Hockey League, the defunct International Hockey League and in England for the London Knights of the British hockey league.

Morissette says he began taking supplements as a teenager to cope with rigours of life on the road.

"With 70-80 games per year, the bus trips," explains Morrissette, who played junior hockey in Quebec, "it was it was impossible for a normal human being to keep up with out the drugs."

The idea that hockey players are using ephedrine-based stimulants is nothing new. There are plenty of anonymous anecdotal accounts of Sudafed use. In 1999, the Canadian roller-hockey team was stripped of its gold medals from the Pan Am Games after goalie Steve Vezina was found to have consumed the cold medication.

The NHL currently doesn't have a policy against the use of stimulants like Sudafed. Morissette says the problem will persist, and could grow worse, if the league continues to turn a blind eye.

"As long as there's no penalty, those who aren't using drugs will feel handicapped.

"When a you go to fight a guy, and that you know he's taken five or six [pills] you are afraid. You think that you'd better take some too."

Tough guy says stimulants a problem for hockey

Its all about getting a competitive advantage, including taking pills to get a buzz before the game. Methheads also do the same thing.