Jesus and Eleven Others Suspended for Drugs

Goober

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The sport of summer is corrupt. Who would ever guess.
2nd time should be a 3-5 year ban.
Nice title
Should have been HeyZeus.
 
Goober

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Spade said:
Zeus is clean.
Should there be a three-strike rule in MLB?
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Severe penalties.
The Team should have the right to cancel the contract.
Awards etc- Revoked.
Suspensions should start at 1 year min and up.
IMHO- ARod should be gone for good.
 
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Goober said:
The sport of summer is corrupt. Who would ever guess.
2nd time should be a 3-5 year ban.
Nice title
Should have been HeyZeus.
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I would have.

Local DJ... former Boston Bruin... and Canadian had a simple solution this morning on the radio. Anyone caught doing steroids gets banned including the minor leagues. He said if pro -players know they will be banned if caught juicing will stop.

What do ya'll think?
 
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EagleSmack said:
I would have.

Local DJ... former Boston Bruin... and Canadian had a simple solution this morning on the radio. Anyone caught doing steroids gets banned including the minor leagues. He said if pro -players know they will be banned if caught juicing will stop.

What do ya'll think?
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At times meds can cause a positive reaction.That has to be addressed.
Regular blood/urine samples to build a baseline is needed.
There can be no room for error
 
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Goober said:
Severe penalties.
The Team should have the right to cancel the contract.
Awards etc- Revoked.
Suspensions should start at 1 year min and up.
IMHO- ARod should be gone for good.
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A whole bunch should be gone for good. Without doping/steroids many of these guys wouldn't even be in the pros. How many guys who chose to stay clean never got a shot because somebody was poking Ape Testosterone in their butt cheeks.

Heck I could have been the star of my HS Football team if I did that!

 
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EagleSmack said:
I would have.

Local DJ... former Boston Bruin... and Canadian had a simple solution this morning on the radio. Anyone caught doing steroids gets banned including the minor leagues. He said if pro -players know they will be banned if caught juicing will stop.

What do ya'll think?
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The salaries and prestige in pro sports are so high, it becomes a risk-reward gambit. I see no solution. Even the Terminator took steroids.

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eh1eh

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Who cares. It's all just a scam anyways. A bit too expensive to be called sports. Hollywood actors slice and dice their faces to get your money why should 'sports stars' do anything less. If you pay for sports then you get what they serve.
 
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The title reads like one apostle behaved.

no wonder they thought water was wine
 
Ron in Regina

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Goober said:
At times meds can cause a positive reaction.That has to be addressed.
Regular blood/urine samples to build a baseline is needed.
There can be no room for error
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It's a weird one, and everything is marching along in leaps and bounds.
It's like radar for speeding....first came the radar, then radar detectors,
so along came radar on a different bandwidth, and then came detectors
for that, and so comes a third bandwidth....and then detectors for all of the
above....and so on and so forth.

Lance Armstrong for example had something like six hundred plus blood
tests preformed over his career and passed them all, and guilty or not,
what would have been his baseline to measure against?

Perhaps the answer might lie in different leagues in the different sports?
The national leagues (NFL, NHL, NBA, etc.....) & the Freak-show leagues
where preforming enhancing drugs aren't frowned upon? Without having
to hide their usage in a Freak-show league, we might see the extreme of
extremes in what enhanced human performance can actually be, and the
damage someone can due to themselves without having to govern
themselves to try to hide in the normal population in order to compete.

An athlete gets caught even once using performance enhancing drugs,
and they're destined to only compete in the Freak-show leagues. Done
deal and no further debate. Would that solve the issue?
 
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Ron in Regina said:
It's a weird one, and everything is marching along in leaps and bounds.
It's like radar for speeding....first came the radar, then radar detectors,
so along came radar on a different bandwidth, and then came detectors
for that, and so comes a third bandwidth....and then detectors for all of the
above....and so on and so forth.

Lance Armstrong for example had something like six hundred plus blood
tests preformed over his career and passed them all, and guilty or not,
what would have been his baseline to measure against?

Perhaps the answer might lie in different leagues in the different sports?
The national leagues (NFL, NHL, NBA, etc.....) & the Freak-show leagues
where preforming enhancing drugs aren't frowned upon? Without having
to hide their usage in a Freak-show league, we might see the extreme of
extremes in what enhanced human performance can actually be, and the
damage someone can due to themselves without having to govern
themselves to try to hide in the normal population in order to compete.

An athlete gets caught even once using performance enhancing drugs,
and they're destined to only compete in the Freak-show leagues. Done
deal and no further debate. Would that solve the issue?
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Professional hockey today would be seen as the freak league by someone time-travelling from the 50s. The players are taller, heavier, stronger, faster than the player of 60 years ago, The rules have changed, equipment has changed, training has changed, diet and fitness regimes have changed, And, yes, some players have taken the "edge" to out perform opponents and teammates.
The Olympic motto is "Higher, faster, stronger." Without the "edge" there will be limits on records and performance. Will that edge just be chemical?
 
Ron in Regina

Ron in Regina

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Who knows? With a separate "Freak-show" league though, you might just get
the answer to your question. The so called 'clean' players in the national leagues
would be recognized for their accomplishments, and those that 'aren't so clean'
would also have their home....and a place for their records to be placed and not
stricken from the books, so to speak.
 
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