The general public's lack of PED knowledge showing through again....

[jnickels]

Reading the comments following this article from ESPN is great!! From a sadly funnny stand point...
http://proxy.espn.go.com/blog/mma/po...best-ac-brawls

Some of my favs
"Horrible idea to even pretend to be behind. Combat sports is the LAST place I want to see juicers. Yeah so Tito Ortiz may have gotten back quicker from injury but, remember when he beat the tar out of his wife? Well if he was on juice (Chris Benoit) he might have killed her.

Legalizing PEDs essentially forces the people who choose to remain clean to use or lose their career. I don't want my friends kids idolizing a bunch of steroid abusers. "

" i think that if people lose testosterone, they prob shouldnt be fighting people who are at their peak. dont try to regain through trt. ruining the sport for real!"

"not only is it unethical (in my mind) in the MMA world, it isnt cheap. and not everyone is going to have access to it, which leads to unfair advantages. im shooting down this idea"

"legalize PEDs? ESPN what are you thinking posting this irresponsible journalism? There are lots of intelligent articles to be written about where to draw the line between acceptable supplements and unauthorized PEDs, but by the current definition PEDs are illegal because they're dangerous. They increase catastrophic injury, cause cancer, and have negative effects on personality, just to name a few side effects. I'm all for an article that names certain treatments/therapies/drugs that should be legal, like TRT, but fantasizing about a gorilla league of Resident Evil characters without talking about the dangerous is just as unethical as child labor or paying people to be human test subjects. Maybe by Josh's logic we should have revive the 100-round boxing match and dispense with helmets in football. As a society, we can't be open to entertaining ourselves by watching other people kill themselves"


My personal favorite is the one about Chris Benoit; ignoring the fact that the autopsy on his brain showed he had the brain of 70+ y/o w/ dimentia...but it was the testosterone. Ignoring the fact that TRT doesn't put people in the "gym dose" range. Just levels a playing field that is mostly unbalanced to uncaught drug users anyway...

This is what happens when I don't have anything to do at work.

[TheABomb]

The average person is completely uneducated when it comes to this stuff. But you can't really blame them - it's not only steroids, but any controversial topic people will tend to pick up the opinion that the media tends to push, whether it's right or wrong.

And anyone who says that tren/anadrol/very high dose test doesn't make you more aggressive is hitting the crack pipe - hard. No, they won't turn you into the roid-raging asshole that the modern media likes to portray. But I doubt there's anyone on here that'll say that those drugs didn't make them more irritable and pissed off at little things.

At least they're recognizing the benefits of TRT. That's a start.

[MattyH7688]

More people should inject themselves to glory. If Millions of dollars were on the line I'd take ten grams of tren and enough gh to turn a school of dwarfs into yao ming.

[Rambo2]

Only a diet makes me irritable :-)

[TheABomb]

Hundreds of thousands of dollars of gear might turn you into a great bodybuilder, but it probably won't do much of anything if you're a baseball or football player.

[MattyH7688]

Hundreds of thousands of dollars of gear might turn you into a great bodybuilder, but it probably won't do much of anything if you're a baseball or football player.

Even in bodybuilding.. Genetic ability is always king. I believe "heart" is another essential attribute. Look at Barry Bonds and Mcguwire.. Both excellent players before juice.. But they became legends with the help of it.

[scimjara]

I stopped reading this shit and replying to naive comments like that. pisses me off how ignorant people are about steroids and hgh and dont realize that smoking and alcohol is a lot worse!

[Young Gotti]

your suprirsed ppl aren't educated on the subject of the steroids....how about the subject of marijuana

[Matt Meinrod]

The funny thing is that his trainer McNamee claims he injected Clemens once or maybe even a few times...anyone else ask the question, that's it? HGH should be injected twice a day. What benefit could he have gotten from a few random shots of it?

[Barrett]

The funny thing is that his trainer McNamee claims he injected Clemens once or maybe even a few times...anyone else ask the question, that's it? HGH should be injected twice a day. What benefit could he have gotten from a few random shots of it?

Maybe he just injected him a couple times to show him how to do it. And then he did it himself. That's a thought.

[retwa]

It's not really relevant whether he was injected once or a hundred times - one injection of a banned substance is a violation and would mean that he lied under oath, so that's all they would need to prove.

Doesn't matter if the drugs actually did anything or not...I mean, it's not like steroids made Barry Bonds a great home run hitter. He was great at that already, the drugs just maybe helped a little bit. Yet, his entire career has an asterisk next to it just because of that little edge that he may have received from the drugs later on.

[ARVD]

99% of population are thick !