Comments on: Baseball’s Whistleblower Up For HOF Nomination http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/baseballs-whistleblower-up-for-hof-nomination-24528 Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:58:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Johnny CP http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/baseballs-whistleblower-up-for-hof-nomination-24528#comment-98943 Johnny CP Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:25:09 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/baseballs-whistleblower-up-for-hof-nomination-24528#comment-98943 It was legal in baseball as well as for any amateur "athlete" who shopped Gold Card Tuesday at GNC. Almost everyone I know who has ever lifted a weight ( most males I know under 80) used ephedra or andro or some other fairly benign substance that has now been overblown and snared in the wide net cast by the steroid witch hunt. The type of people who get hysterical over steroids tend to have no common-sense or knowledge of just about anything when it comes to sports supplements, exercise,etc. They would probably seek to ban Flinstones vitamins as "unnatural" susbtances that somehow go against the nature of God or some BS. That said, in 1998, I clearly remember discussing Sosa and mcGwire with a few of my friends. We ALL suspected that they were using "harder" drugs- illegal anabolic steroids. I remember seeing Sosa in particular, and being familiar with his previous physique. I thought and said "Yeah that guy is probably on steroids." I wasn't as sure about McGwire because at the time I associated roids with guys who were a little less doughy looking. I thought he might just be on Andro and creatine or something else like your standard Muscletech or EAS stack. But I always thought it was possible. So what has always bothered me about the media is how these writers ( other than the andro reporter, I guess) who were following these guys had no idea until several years later that these guys might be on something harder. Did their irrational hate of Barry Bonds bring it out? I don't know. But almost everyone I know of from my generation ( I am 30 now) grew up lifting and using supplements and having at least some knowledge of steroids- and we all ( pretty much casually) thought that Sosa and McGwire looked like juicers. And I guess I just didn't care that much. just as I am not outraged just because a much better ball player who was twice the guy clean that McGwire ever was juiced, came along and broke more records. It was legal in baseball as well as for any amateur "athlete" who shopped Gold Card Tuesday at GNC. Almost everyone I know who has ever lifted a weight ( most males I know under 80) used ephedra or andro or some other fairly benign substance that has now been overblown and snared in the wide net cast by the steroid witch hunt. The type of people who get hysterical over steroids tend to have no common-sense or knowledge of just about anything when it comes to sports supplements, exercise,etc. They would probably seek to ban Flinstones vitamins as "unnatural" susbtances that somehow go against the nature of God or some BS.

That said, in 1998, I clearly remember discussing Sosa and mcGwire with a few of my friends. We ALL suspected that they were using "harder" drugs- illegal anabolic steroids. I remember seeing Sosa in particular, and being familiar with his previous physique. I thought and said "Yeah that guy is probably on steroids." I wasn't as sure about McGwire because at the time I associated roids with guys who were a little less doughy looking. I thought he might just be on Andro and creatine or something else like your standard Muscletech or EAS stack. But I always thought it was possible.

So what has always bothered me about the media is how these writers ( other than the andro reporter, I guess) who were following these guys had no idea until several years later that these guys might be on something harder. Did their irrational hate of Barry Bonds bring it out? I don't know. But almost everyone I know of from my generation ( I am 30 now) grew up lifting and using supplements and having at least some knowledge of steroids- and we all ( pretty much casually) thought that Sosa and McGwire looked like juicers. And I guess I just didn't care that much. just as I am not outraged just because a much better ball player who was twice the guy clean that McGwire ever was juiced, came along and broke more records.

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