Between Fernando Vina and Petite (and now apparently Mariano Rivera) the "I was just taking HGH to heal an injury" defense seems to be baseball's latest doping defense, with guys like clemens and bonds villanized as long-term roids users and the rest of these guys played off as simply trying to heal injuries. I know letsrun will spit this back in baseball's face, but I can really see america as a whole being sucked into this and letting cheats off the hook. Opinions?
If it happened before HGH was banned, then let it go.
I think the PR is that recovering from injuries is not performance enhancing. I do not buy it, but I see why it is being done.
Maybe this will start the dialogue towards the legitimate uses for PEDs. Mark my words: Eventually they will be as accepted as spikes and rubberized tracks.
luv2run wrote:
If it happened before HGH was banned, then let it go.
HGH has been banned, although not specifically by name, since 1990.
It's also a crime to use/possess it without a prescription written by a medical doctor.
If you're going to nail Bonds, then you're going to nail every one of these cheats too.
Maybe this will start the dialogue towards the legitimate uses for PEDs. Mark my words: Eventually they will be as accepted as spikes and rubberized tracks.
The injury defense is complete utter nonsense. Talk to any orthopedist and they will tell you that HGH is never prescribed to recover from an injury because there are FAR more effective drugs.
These players have round the clock access to the best doctors and trainers available, and they expect us to believe they couldn't get the treatment they needed from doctors so they took matters into their own hands?
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