Mark McGuire can blow me.

[Wild1Poet2]

...Losing your hair? take a pill...

Hey, I missed that one. Where can I sign up?

Its propecia. It started out as a drug to treat prostate enlargement but they found in low doses to help with hair loss. What causes hair loss is a metabolite of testosterone called DHT. DHT kills sensitive hair follicles. It can also speed up prostate enlargement and cancer cells in the prostate. Castrated males never go bald. Only guys with too much male hormones.

A side effect of steroid use is hair loss. propecia blocks DHT.

but I don't think it has a great success rate. not sure.

[fxrglide91]

The only pure sports are in High School and that's getting tainted. College and Pros are all about money. It's like watching WWE, they're atheletes but they will do anything to make the big money. I'm not going to support their habit.

[tradrockrat]

Baseball was built on corruption - it's never been pure, and its never been wholesome. google the blacksocks ball club sometime. Steroids are EVERYWHERE in professional sports - period. Steroids, painkillers, drugs of all sorts designed to enhance the performance of the athlete out on that field are in use every game of every sport.

[Wild1Poet2]

The only pure sports are in High School and that's getting tainted. College and Pros are all about money. It's like watching WWE, they're atheletes but they will do anything to make the big money. I'm not going to support their habit.

I know a guy played football in college. 6'2" 225 competing for a lineman's spot against all the big 300 pounders. He made it. Juiced up to 245-250. Trainer shot him up and ran all the cycles. Very scientific. In case anyone's reading, this is all "alledgedly".

Then he tried out for the pro's. Patriots. Didn't make it. There was a lotta money riding on it though and a lot of pressure. Afterwards, he never juiced again.

Its big business in college and the pro's.

[gliderider94]

something funny on this topic.....professional billiards are going to start drug testing....I play tournament billiards, and I can not think of a single instance where a performance enhancing drug could help a player improve their game........

The rumor is that billiards has been proposed as a future olympic sport, and the olympic committee requires that all athletes be tested

Surely the Olympic aspect has put the billiards world under a form of scrutiny that may have heretofore been unimagined. The fact is however that some forms of performance enhancing drugs DO bring with them a keener level of sight and thusly a degree of improved hand eye coordination but I think the debate is simpler then that. The rule is NO PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS - PERIOD!! I mean, what's so hard to understand about that and where in the hell does all this "varying degrees of acceptability" come from. Seams a little cut and dry to me, but that's me.

I agree wholeheartedly with FLH on this one. I can remember those childhood days when I LIVED, ATE, and SLEPT baseball. I didn't concern myself with contract negotiations, who had how many illegitamate kids by what stripper, who's team of lawyers got them out of their umpteenth DUI and I remember the days when no one even knew what the heck a drug test was.

Kids today (and fans in general) are bombarded with so much shit that has nothing to do with the simple joy of playng or following THE GAME. Kind of sad really.

[JD]

Sad indeed.

[emtee]

This article is atributed to the "Onion" newspaper ( http://www.theonion.com/content/index )

Sorry, I just found it hilarious...


NEW YORK—Former St. Louis Cardinals slugger, onetime single-season home run record holder, and admitted steroid abuser Mark McGwire came clean Monday, confessing that it was really fucking fun being able to hit baseballs so hard and far.
"I can't remember having a better time in all of my life," McGwire said during an hour-long interview with the MLB Network's Bob Costas. "Do you have any idea what it's like knowing instantly that a ball you hit is going to fly—no, soar—over a fence in a major-league stadium? Well, I do. And it's fucking fantastic."
"I'm sorry everyone had a problem with it," McGwire added. "But I was having a blast."
Though McGwire told Costas there were times he almost regretted taking anabolic steroids, the former Oakland Athletics star said that, considering the tons of fun the performance-enhancing substances allowed him to have, he never thought twice about his decision.
"I was hitting baseballs over 450 feet," McGwire said. "That's really far. And high, too. Oh my God, were they high. Towering, in fact. I was, like, crushing these things."
According to McGwire, he had the most fun during the 1998 season, when he fired off 70 home runs and broke Roger Maris' single-season long-ball record. McGwire said he had the second-most fun the following year, when he hit 65 home runs, many of which, the giddy slugger proclaimed, "went for miles and miles."
However, a visibly emotional McGwire admitted that he had absolutely no fun in 1993 and 1994, when he was plagued by injuries and hit just nine home runs each season. At that time, the first baseman explained, the balls were either going high and not that far or traveling too low and not that hard.
"That was a drag. Don't get me wrong, just hitting the ball really high in the air can be cool sometimes, even if you get out," said McGwire, adding that it's enjoyable to watch a routine pop-fly that goes "way, way up there." "But I was getting out a lot during those years, so I had to do whatever was necessary to hit the ball really high, far, and hard all the time."
"High plus far plus hard equals big-time, serious fun," McGwire continued.
McGwire also said that his decade-long steroid abuse had little to do with gaining an edge on his competition and more to do with his observation of how players who didn't hit the ball very far were not enjoying the game.
"I would look at a guy like John Olerud just kind of hitting these dinky ground balls, and I would say to myself, 'No way this guy's having a good time,'" McGwire said. "All I know is, when I got up to the plate, the outfielders would back all the way up because I hit the ball so far. I really enjoyed that."
"I also liked hitting it over their heads," McGwire added while flexing his right bicep and then making a swinging motion with his arms. "Crack! Home run."
According to the three-time Silver Slugger Award winner, the fun he was having also seemed to make everyone else—including teammates, fans, and Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig—have fun while they watched his at bats.
McGwire said that the main thing he learned in his 16 years as a player was that people tend to be happier when players are hitting the ball really far.
"By their reactions, I just figured they were cool with me taking steroids and having a good time," McGwire said. "They clearly knew I was taking performance-enhancing drugs, right? I mean, look at me. I look like a fucking monster. Plus, come on—I was hitting the ball really, really fucking far."

[JD]

That's much closer to the truth than his "real" interview

[Wild1Poet2]

LOL it probably is fun

so steroids are actually a recreational drug