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Which puts me in mind of the

jollyroger — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:22:38 +0000

In reply to Holy shit, OGD! Between you

Which puts me in mind of the (totally irrelevant) blurb I did for the San Francisco Tourist Board:"Visit San Francisco! Steep hills, short skirts, steady winds". They passed on it...

Yeah, I remember when Miley

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:20:27 +0000

In reply to These are extremely prominent

Yeah, I remember when Miley Cyrus tweeted nude pics and cut her hair, while Lindsay Lohan went into rehab - undermined the fabric of our nation.

Hope they get them into Congress soon - a good grilling, and then maybe a songfest is what we need.

Holy shit, OGD! Between you

jollyroger — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:11:07 +0000

In reply to From first hand experience .

Holy shit, OGD! Between you and Tmac, it's like, "visit dagblog, home of elite athletes..."

These are extremely prominent

Dan Kervick — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:10:30 +0000

In reply to I'm basically with you on

These are extremely prominent and very highly paid people whom other people look up to and model themselves on, like it or not. When they are permitted to lie and cheat and abuse dangerous illegal drugs in the open, all while sucking up a massive amount of our economic resources, and then lie to the people's representatives about it, the spectacle of privileged unaccountability undermines institutions and fosters further public corruption. Of course I suppose its no different than the massive, unprosecuted wave of Wall Street criminality that swept the nation this decade and crashed our economy, and that our weak and incompetent President and his crooked attorney general have allowed to go unpunished as well.

I'm basically with you on

Michael Maiello — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:24:07 +0000

In reply to Why shouldn't they? Because

I'm basically with you on this, DF. Except that a woman running for Senate in Connecticut basically paid her way on the backs of contractors who she and her husband worked so hard, and expected so much from, that there's been an epidemic of deaths, some related to steroidal heart failure but most related to the painkillers you become addicted to when your muscles get so large they tear from the bone when you do a simple lunge...

This is the reality. It's

DF — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:47:00 +0000

In reply to I guess the other thing

This is the reality. It's like when people try to take away from Schwarzenegger's wins because he used steroids. Many bodybuilders were experimenting with them back then. He was still just better than his competitors year after year. It wasn't even close, but it wasn't just because he was using. Drugs don't pedal bicycles or lift weights on their own.

There seems to be a lot of pearl clutching about what should be obvious: in a world where the use of performance-enhancing drugs is prevalent, a champion turned out to be among the users.

Why shouldn't they? Because

DF — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:41:25 +0000

In reply to I don't get it. Baseball is

Why shouldn't they? Because it's costly and pointless. Regardless of how personally satisfying you find it, can you point to a productive purpose it's served? Not to mention that the fans didn't seem to mind. MLB couldn't even get butts in seats until the steroid-fueled home run revolution took off.

It's non-scandal scandal, perfect for Senators grand-standing, but it does nothing for the average American. It amounts to fiddling while Rome burns. I would think you would regard it for the distraction that it is. Hell, sport itself is a distraction. It's the last thing that our lawmakers need to be concerning themselves with. "It's a business" just isn't a good enough reason for it to take that much priority.

From first hand experience .

oldenGoldenDecoy — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:09:07 +0000

In reply to Pretty Little Liars

From first hand experience . . .

Back in the mid 20th Century (I'm old) for 6 years I competed at the highest levels of national and international track and field as a Triple-Jumper. For three years I competed as a member of the US Military Council of International Sports Military (CISM) track and field team while serving in the US Navy. My greatest achievement was jumping 53ft-11in. At the time the world record was 56ft-5in held by Joseph Schmidt of Poland.

I was told by a very well-known trainer of the time that there was but one way to increase my jumps and that was through the use of anabolic steroids. At that time I was 21 years old, 6-2 and weighed 172 pounds. By using, and in addition to a well-planned diet coupled with the weight-lifting regimen that I was doing at the time my body muscle-mass would have increased by 10 to 12 percent. My body weight would have increased to between 190 to 200 pounds within a three-month period of time.

There was testing at that time but it was very rudimentary. Although, being "a purest" that I have always tried to maintain I truly saw all of this as outright cheating. Couple that with my knowledge of others who had used and the physical problems that they had endured, there was no way I would take the chance of doing irreparable harm to my physical well-being.

Since those days I have coached many young athletes. My advice to them has always been, your competition is with and within yourself (personal best and all), if you can't do it clean...

DON'T DO IT!

~OGD~

Michael... Thanks for this fine post and allowing the space for me to reminisce.

Read the long drawn-out Roger

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:52:43 +0000

In reply to I don't get it. Baseball is

Read the long drawn-out Roger Clemens case - how much in taxpayer money and Congress' time was spent in showing prosecuter malfeasance and finallly his acquittal? In this case, it was the reputations of George Mitchell, Henry Waxman, Michael Mukasey that were destroyed over a period of 4 1/2 years.

I don't get it. Baseball is

Dan Kervick — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:08:04 +0000

In reply to I've really never understood

I don't get it. Baseball is an industry like any other, and it receives a substantial amount of legislative protection. Why shouldn't it get grilled when there is suspicion that there is widespread law-breaking going on?

Personally, I enjoy seeing the reputations of phony jock-hypocrites challenged publicly.