Manny Ramirez suspension, PEDs and sports

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Essentially, neither mlb nor the NFL have any vested interest in actually catching people taking PEDs – this just makes the game look dirty. If they really wanted to clamp down on this, they’d have stronger suspensions and blood testing. But they don’t.

It’s really better for the game (and even moreso, the NFL) if players are bigger and stronger (and can hit more homers, or hit harder), but because of public opinion, they have to make a token gesture at doing something about it. It really kinda annoys me, when something like cycling, or athletics, is held up as a ‘dirty’ sport, when in reality, all that’s happening is that they are just doing a better job of actually catching people.

Gah.

Chinga los gigantes

Go A’s

I would be all over this if I wasn’t exhausted.

I would have been a Raiders fan BUT THEY WERE IN LA. So I went for the team that was closest to me. so put that in your pipe and smoke it

I don’t know why everyone assumes football is dirty just because baseball was dirty? Football started testing for steroids in the mid 80’s which is why the sport has been able to avoid this problem over the last decade. Baseball stuck it’s head in the sand, a problem grew than stuck it’s head in the sand even further believing no one would notice.

Are all football players clean, probably not. I bet the majority of the PED’s are taken in college when guys are trying to grow their body to an NFL size. It’s easier to maintain the size than to get it. Plus, I don’t see football players enormously bulking up in the pros.

Still I’m leary to assume that many football players are dirty just because they are bigger and more athletic than most of the population. In my area, the guys who became pros were freakishly big and athletic back in junior high and high school.

Finally, football is a man’s sport. You can take all the junk you want to make yourself bigger and faster. None of that is going to help you deal with the collisions, brutality and pain nor give you the motivation to push through it all. In fact, PED’s make you much more prone to injury via contact and exertion which will wash you out of football faster than anything. In baseball, you take a couple swings and lightly jog around the field. Your body isn’t being punished for carrying around all that extra, abnormal weight, than you cash in on the long ball.

my bad.

 - from his book I Am America And So Can You

“The big story in sports right now is athletes taking drugs, making themselves better with steroids and human growth hormone. Some people have a problem with this, but not me. News Flash: Athletes perform for our enjoyment. So ‘performance-enhancing drugs’ are really ‘enjoyment-enhancing drugs.’ Bravo, Mr. Bonds.

The fact is, Americans want the best of everything. That’s why Americans won’t watch women’s basketball. Every time I see a lady make a shot I think, ‘I bet a guy could’ve made that better.’ ‘Enhanced’ athletics are the same way. Back in the day when sports consisted of little slow guys hitting set shots, bunting, and staging Statue of Liberty plays, the public was satisfied because they didn’t know any better. But now that we’ve seen huge behemoths with 2% body fat and misshapen foreheads leap over piles of bodies to crush each other’s larynx, we can’t go back.

That’s why I’m proposing the end of all regulations on what athletes do to themselves. If a guy wants to shoot himself up with hormones or chimp sperm, that’s his business. The only thing that matters is performance on the field. Now a lot of people ask, ‘What kind of message would this send to our young people?’ To which I reply, ’Don’t suck. Go the extra mile to actually be good or you’ll be selling insurance.’ With those forces at work in the marketplace of modern scientific body modification, our sports will continue to be the most entertaining in the world."

years of taking PED’s, Manny is now known as Mannygotnomorewood.