SI.com: Troy Glaus -- Roids

[Lugnuts]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/09/07/drug.probe/index.html

 

[The Big Ragu]

Posted it to the Ankiel thread a little while ago. Been on the phone talking about it for the last half hour. This totally disproves the "healing power" of steroids, don't you think?

 

[JoelHammond]

Posted it to the Ankiel thread a little while ago. Been on the phone talking about it for the last half hour. This totally disproves the "healing power" of steroids, don't you think?

JDV?

 

[outofplace]

Posted it to the Ankiel thread a little while ago. Been on the phone talking about it for the last half hour. This totally disproves the "healing power" of steroids, don't you think?

Good line, but the serious answer would be "not really." If you meant it just as a joke, I apologize for the serious response in advance.

Steroids do aid the body in recovery and are often used in the treatment of certain medical conditions, such as asthma, as well as in aiding the recovery from some injuries.

However, steroids also can cause muscle to build out of proportion to the ligaments connected to it, which can lead to injury.

Basically, steroids can help the body in some areas while also increasing the risk of breakdowns in other areas.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Posted it to the Ankiel thread a little while ago. Been on the phone talking about it for the last half hour. This totally disproves the "healing power" of steroids, don't you think?

JDV?

No. I don't have JDV on speed dial. But the person I was talking to did manage to milk 30 minutes of Troy Glaus jokes out of the news.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Posted it to the Ankiel thread a little while ago. Been on the phone talking about it for the last half hour. This totally disproves the "healing power" of steroids, don't you think?

Good line, but the serious answer would be "not really." If you meant it just as a joke, I apologize for the serious response in advance.

Steroids do aid the body in recovery and are often used in the treatment of certain medical conditions, such as asthma, as well as in aiding the recovery from some injuries.

However, steroids also can cause muscle to build out of proportion to the ligaments connected to it, which can lead to injury.

Basically, steroids can help the body in some areas while also increasing the risk of breakdowns in other areas.

I was joking! Apparently he actually was taking them when he was breaking down every other hour... back when he was with the Angels and had his middle name legally changed to "Disabled List." He might have used the roids to try to help himself recover from the shoulder problems and surgery had right around that time.

 

[JoelHammond]

Posted it to the Ankiel thread a little while ago. Been on the phone talking about it for the last half hour. This totally disproves the "healing power" of steroids, don't you think?

JDV?

No. I don't have JDV on speed dial. But the person I was talking to did manage to milk 30 minutes of Troy Glaus jokes out of the news.

Just figured you were inspired, is all.

 

[outofplace]

Posted it to the Ankiel thread a little while ago. Been on the phone talking about it for the last half hour. This totally disproves the "healing power" of steroids, don't you think?

Good line, but the serious answer would be "not really." If you meant it just as a joke, I apologize for the serious response in advance.

Steroids do aid the body in recovery and are often used in the treatment of certain medical conditions, such as asthma, as well as in aiding the recovery from some injuries.

However, steroids also can cause muscle to build out of proportion to the ligaments connected to it, which can lead to injury.

Basically, steroids can help the body in some areas while also increasing the risk of breakdowns in other areas.

I was joking! Apparently he actually was taking them when he was breaking down every other hour... back when he was with the Angels and had his middle name legally changed to "Disabled List." He might have used the roids to try to help himself recover from the shoulder problems and surgery had right around that time.

That is why I apologized in advance. I went ahead with the serious response anyway just because I think there are some misconceptions out there about what steroids do.

 

[93Devil]

I had an NFL trainer once tell me that a muscle ripping from a bone is not a natural occurrence when there is no contact involved. If this happens when someone is lifting weights, it should send a huge red flag.

I'm not saying this happened to .255/33/97, but it will have happened to some of the 20 or so name athletes we see busted in the next year. That just a wild estimation by the way.

 

[spnited]

I had an NFL trainer once tell me that a muscle ripping from a bone is not a natural occurrence when there is no contact involved. If this happens when someone is lifting weights, it should send a huge red flag.

You mean like Mike Piazza, 2005, torn groin muscle leaning away from an inside pitch.

 

[andyouare?]

Posted it to the Ankiel thread a little while ago. Been on the phone talking about it for the last half hour. This totally disproves the "healing power" of steroids, don't you think?

Good line, but the serious answer would be "not really." If you meant it just as a joke, I apologize for the serious response in advance.

Steroids do aid the body in recovery and are often used in the treatment of certain medical conditions, such as asthma...

Do we know for a fact Glaus didn't have asthma?

If I was commisioner, any baseball player who bench presses more than 200 pounds would be banned for life.

 

[93Devil]

I had an NFL trainer once tell me that a muscle ripping from a bone is not a natural occurrence when there is no contact involved. If this happens when someone is lifting weights, it should send a huge red flag.

You mean like Mike Piazza, 2005, torn groin muscle leaning away from an inside pitch.

Sure, in too short a time his body became faster and stronger than his skeletal structure allowed for, and he hurt himself.

Muscles growing faster than the rest of the body is what he was alluding.

 

[spnited]

Agree, Devil.

I'm a big Piazza fan but I always believed he skated on the steroids issue more than anybody in baseball.

 

[93Devil]

Or was Piazza's groin injury made up to cover another ailment that they did not want released? Or maybe he just wanted a few days off? We all know injuries are made up sometimes.

 

[spnited]

He was out for six or eight weeks ... described as tear of muscle away from the bone

 

[93Devil]

Ugh. I'm waving the red flag.

 

[Eagleboy]

Ah, this is tough. I always thought he was a solid player and kind of liked him.

Then again, I was a McGwire/Sosa fan when that whole shindig was going on, and now looked what happened.

Who's next? Mark McLemore?

 

[goalmouth]

I'd really appreciate if law enforcement could just release their entire list of suspect athletes in this case, instead of leaking them out in dribs and drabs. It would be much more convenient, don't you think?

 

[pressmurphy]

The big winner (for now) in the whole Ankiel / Glaus / performance-enhancing drugs news cycle?

Barry Bonds.

Other guys are getting lit into by media and fans. They're either not even talking about Bonds for the moment or they're on the verge of saying that Barry deserves a pass on this one since he obviously isn't alone.

Not saying it's right, just saying that's where this is heading . . .

 

[boots]

This will not end well.