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- dafragsta, on 12/17/2007, -0/+10You mean in addition to "... and they are faking it."
- inactive, on 12/17/2007, -4/+13No. Just no. What a horrible idea. Changing this would ruin baseball entirely, as it would just forever fall under the stigmata that pro wrestling has of "well those guys are just all juiced."
- riggs32, on 12/17/2007, -0/+8your comment backfired, leaving me wanting there to be a sport in the future with robototic/bionic attachments...
- murraj2, on 12/17/2007, -1/+6Can I bury this as inaccurate, lame and stupid? HGH is an illegal drug in the United States that absolutely promotes better performance. It allows them to heal faster, recover faster and has even shown in some cases to increase eyesight. All of which are very beneficial to a baseball players performance.
Relief pitchers will be able to throw more pitches more often, it's pretty indisputable that HGH is a performance enhancer. - BirkBum, on 12/17/2007, -1/+5So that argument is: there are no proven benefits, there IS the possibility of horrible side effects, and because of this it should be made legal?
Tell me I'm not the only one that thinks this is idiotic. - NewGTGuy, on 12/17/2007, -1/+4HGH is also more or less illegal for anyone now. These scandals have made it unattainable even with a prescription. I took it for about a year and a half (I'm 37) and man was it amazing. I felt like I was 21 again. There are also very few side effects. All it is is an injectable 191 chain amino acid. There is no reason for it to be illegal.
I just want to government to stop taking care of me. I can do that myself! - Dquinz63, on 12/17/2007, -0/+3Perhaps you should read up on the contraption Barry Bonds wears on his arm. It gives him a mechanical advantage to produce a more consistent and powerful swing. MLB knows this and that is why only Bonds and a few other 'grandfathered in' players can use hinged hard plastic arm protectors like it.
Realistically you can not reasonably compare players from different eras because gloves are bigger, balls are wound tighter, and bats are better designed. Not to mention all the perfectly acceptable advances in physical training for players. Players now know a lot more than they used to about how to build muscle (with our without chemical assistance) and have access to better equipment than in the past. All this means, even if no one uses chemicals to enhance their play, that comparing players who do not play in the same era and directly against each other is useless. All time records, except when the strategy has changed so that no one is chasing them, will always be broken and technology will be to blame. No one has to juice for modern players to have an unfair advantage over their predecessors. Why is it okay to use better physics (bat design and such), better biology (improved training techniques), but not better chemistry to improve play? - smackhero, on 12/17/2007, -0/+3bionic arms? yes! god yes!
personally i find major league baseball incredibly boring, but i'd definitely watch any sport that involves cyborgs. - mortigon, on 12/17/2007, -2/+4Why? The reason it is banned is it is a drug that helps grow muscle. Sports are meant to be natural competition...
- Mockylock, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2"MAH, Where's my protein!?"
- RizenBB, on 12/17/2007, -1/+3Except HGH, assuming the article isn't lying, doesn't provide direct performance enhancing abilities like steroids. /shrug
- gn0stik, on 12/17/2007, -1/+3Just because it's legal doesn't mean the organizations can't ban it.
For example, an employer, only hire non-smokers. Anyone who's looked for a job in the last couple of years has seen employment ads that said "smokers need not apply." - Jammer, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2Wow... I mean, wow. How incredible ignorant and uninformed the author of the article is. Hey, Digg: please mark this inaccurate, because it most certainly is.
- jkerr, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1HGH is quite legal in the United States when accompanied by a prescription. There are certain hormonal deficiencies that require HGH therapy.
- ereptorcinereus, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1"... And that was back in the day before steroids were mandatory!"
- DoctaStooge, on 12/17/2007, -1/+2What about the guys who spend extra hours in the batting cages? What about the guys who train everyday in the off season to stay in shape? What about learning people's tendencies/strengths/weaknesses to gain a strategic edge? Saying that legalizing HGH will ruin baseball is *****. If it really does improve performance, and everyone can take it, then all it would do would raise the level of play. Besides, the home run chases of 1998/2000 were what baseball back after the strike anyway right?
- YoJR, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1Exactly, but you can still get a prescription for it. Damn if the goverment wants to make something with side effects illegal, they should start with alcohol.
- NewGTGuy, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1I agree. The only reason all this stuff is illegal is to keep prices high. That is what the "War on Drugs" is designed to do. Drugs provide and easy way for our government to move money around for black budget projects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13zCc9JW_wI - murraj2, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1So we basically force everyone in the league to take possibly health hazardous drugs in order to be on the same playing field, and in addition encourage the use of things like steroids which have major health consequences to kids in high school who will never have a chance at the Pros, but may very well develop tumors or heart problems.
- RizenBB, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1Everytime I hear "HGH" now, all I can think of is the haircut video on Youtube.
"Not right now chief, I'm in the *****' zone". - inactive, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1HGH is expensive, but not 9 stacks of money expensive. And if he meant change the price so that it is very expensive, Mexico will be more than happy to produce it on the cheap.
- mortigon, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1reread that... Protein and testosterone(when produced naturally) are not intorduced into the body as a drug. I know HGH is natural as well, but the way athletes are using it as a drug, it isn't natural.
- NewGTGuy, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Well technically you can. I go to a longevity clinic and they tell me that you must have a massive deficiency to do so. Simply getting it for a younger more energetic life is not possible.
- legendxx, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1I see someone is crying their eyes out because their favorite yankees players have been implicated.. marked as inaccurate crybaby babble.
- clari0n, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Dugg for Futurama reference.
- smackhero, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1yea, and as i understand it, from a friend who uses HGH for bodybuilding (imported from a chinese doctor), there really aren't any negative side-effects like anabolic steroids. your body naturally produces HGH, but tapers down its production as you grow older (peaking around puberty, i think). some people naturally produce more of it than others, so if there aren't any negative side-effects, what's the harm in allowing people to gain the same advantages that nature gives others?
if people want to use HGH, whether for bodybuilding, to gain height, or to perform better in sports, i say let them. it's better that they have it administered in a clinical setting from a regulated legal source than to administer it themselves and get it from some chinese doctor, who could be selling them horse hormones, or cadaver GH, for all they know. - RyanBlueThunder, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1I think Bonds had some sort of bionic attachment on his elbow/arm...
- frostbyt, on 12/17/2007, -1/+2Good post.
- RyanBlueThunder, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1Next they should make Lasik eye surgery illegal...talk about performance enhancing!!!
/just relieved that Nolan Ryan hasn't been tainted... - lucidguru, on 12/17/2007, -1/+2Just legalize all drugs... HGH, Steriods, Heroin... it really doesn't matter. There is obviously an advantage to using drugs and athletes will continue to use them regardless of whatever rule they put in place. Keeping the drugs illegal is not the solution, legalize all drugs, let people choose what drugs that they want to put into their body and everyone is happy. As soon as the government, MLB or whatever organization you want tries to stop drug use, all it does is push the drug use underground.
Pro-Drugs are the future - Drugs that don't cure any disease, but improve quality of life. When we finally embrace the "drug" culture people will start experiencing the benefits of a drug using lifestyle. - clari0n, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1You're repetitive comments about getting rid of this or that too are annoying. Let's cut those out.
- YoJR, on 12/17/2007, -0/+0Screw that, they make the big bucks, let the go to anti-aging clinics and get a script for them like everybody else :). It's not like it's impossible to get, some doc's will give you a script for being over 30. Better yet just look google search for IGF LR3, you can still by that over the internet as a "research" chemical.
- sevendaysfallen, on 12/20/2007, -0/+0If we're banning HGH because it "promotes better peformance" should we then be banning tommy john surgery and laser eye surgery? These are both ways to improve upon natural abilities and improve an individuals baseball skills through medical means. If the only reason for banning HGH is because it gives an unfair advantage over natural abilities then any kind of medical procedure that improves upon natural abilities should be banned. I think we can all agree that this is a little ludicrous.
- Terry77, on 07/16/2008, -0/+0Know more about role of HGH at http://www.sytropinreviews.net/hgh_for_aging.htm
- Stephain, on 08/19/2008, -0/+0Also, learn more about HGH enhancers at http://www.genf20reviews.org/hgh_enhancers.htm
- frostbyt, on 12/17/2007, -2/+1Protein helps grow muscle too. Should we ban that? So does testosterone let's cut the balls off all the baseball players and restrict all meat and milk consumption. You make it sound as if we should turn all sports players into PETA members.
- frostbyt, on 12/17/2007, -2/+1The sun causes cancer too. Lets make everyone stay inside and post on digg.
- RaDeus, on 12/17/2007, -1/+0yeah nothing beats athletes with man-***** and Carpal tunnel syndrome among other things...
if everyone was clean there would be no presure for this kind of *****... - dimitrisokolov, on 12/17/2007, -1/+0Baseball sucks ass anyway. I quit watching that 20 years ago.
- frostbyt, on 12/17/2007, -2/+1Protein helps grow muscle too. Let's cut that out.
- dmoney22, on 12/17/2007, -3/+1I thought it said GHB at first.
- deeboe, on 12/17/2007, -6/+2I agreewith this 100%! If anything, it makes the game more entertaining as it creates better athletes.
Just like breast implants create better strippers, not better dancers. - LisaThurmond, on 12/17/2007, -5/+1I agree. The MLB seems to have shot themselves in the foot... With that said, just allowing players to use HGH is a bad idea since kids emulate their favorite players. Moreover, isn't athletic competition about NATURAL abilities? If you allow HGH, what's next? Robotic/bionic attachments? Where does the enhancements stop?
- BodomChild16, on 12/17/2007, -10/+3Who else read this and saw "Just make HIGH legal"?
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