There’s an excellent piece in the Charlotte Observer today by Stan Olson about why the major league steroids policy is a sham. Olson contends that if steroids testing were working, then home runs should be down. Instead, home run totals are the highest they’ve been since 2000, the “heart of what we now believe to have been the steroid era”.
Why? Because the best performance enhancer is HGH, which can only be detected in a blood test. So despite MLB’s recent tough penalties on minor league players, it’s all a joke. Major Leagues know that they only have to pee in a cup… and so the homers go on.
In other news…
[SwanShadow]: Doug Flutie calls it a career
[Tom Bejamin’s NHL weblog]: Why the Ottawa Senators screwed the pooch
[Chicago Sports]: Azumah taken to the cleaners
[HockeyDirt.com]: As if low ratings for hockey on OLN weren’t enough, the USHHOF closes
[Detroit Free Press]: Need4Sheed blogger gets some love
[Jes Golbez]: There’s nothing better than irrational hate for a team
4 replies on “Odds and Ends for Mon May 15 2006: The myth of steroid testing”
Roids: Ster not And — OR….they juiced, got huge, have since stopped juicing but have been able to maintain their strength through legal means, thus the homeruns continue. If you’ve summarized his article correctly, then his he needs a lesson in logic and journalism. You sure he’s not a woman?
Privacy issue? — The steroid article cited a “privacy issue” with the blood testing vs. urine testing. I don’t know about you, but I feel that stripping off my clothes, putting on an apron, and peeing in a cup with some cranky, crusty old nurse watching me is more of a privacy invasion than someone rolling up my sleeve and taking a few drops of blood. I hate needles, though. And yes, it’s always a cranky, crusty old nurse that does it. Any hot nurse will get a better job in a better department because she’s hot.
Isn’t the thing about roids — that you need to maintain them to keep up the strength?
I wouldn’t know. I’m a fat bastard.
blood vs urine — I think it’s more of a privacy issue because you can find more things in blood than you can in urine. Like diseases and stuff.
As for the pissing in a cup while an old cranky nurse watches, may I suggest the original whizzinator?