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The PED double-standard

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Versatile, Dec 29, 2012.

  1. Dash 7

    Dash 7 Member

    Are you suggesting that PED use only affected hitters?
     
  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Oh, I am no expert. I have done some NFL related work, though, and I have had the conversations. At the least, though Lyle Alzado said he began using sometime in the late 1960s. You'd figure he was not alone. There were certainly players in the 1970s using. Some, including Steve Courson, spoke about it.

    I don't know why they would have had to come from East Germany. Anabolic steroids are as old as at least the 1930s. And in the 1950s, when it was widely considered that the Eastern Bloc countries had steroid programs, the U.S. supposedly had its own program -- John Ziegler, dianabol, etc.
     
  3. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    In the mid-2000s, Jim Haslett gave an interview about steroid use when he was playing for the Bills 20 years earlier. He said it was common knowledge within the league that the Steelers' juicing gave them a huge edge during their dynasty and that's what got the practice going across the NFL. The league cleaned that story up right quick the next day and now you barely hear anything about it.

    Whole lot of dead Steelers from that time, though.
     
  4. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    No, but it seems likely that for a brief time, they did more for hitters than pitchers.
     
  5. BB Bobcat

    BB Bobcat Active Member

    I think hitters can get more direct benefit from PEDs than pitchers. With pitchers it's more about durability and injury recovery I think.
     
  6. Dash 7

    Dash 7 Member

    I'm speaking from ignorance here in many ways, but from what I understand, the greatest effects of PEDs would come from increasing your ability to recover more quickly? Am I off base, here?
     
  7. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Understand why they don't, but I think it's time for the experts to come clean and admit that PED's actually work.
     
  8. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    The rise in concussions, to me, is a result of all the drug use in the NFL. Bigger, stronger and faster, but still the same brain and skull.

    And has anyone stopped to look at NBA players?
     
  9. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    I've noticed they're pretty tall.
     
  10. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    And black. Do steroids make people tall and black?
     
  11. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    It worked for Kyle -- until his testicle knees exploded.
     
  12. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/derrick-rose-and-the-nbas-apparent-huge-steroid-problem?urn=nba,wp3662

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