US Needs to go back to Normal.

I think Europe should start helping more like Americans and the U.K.

Is Curt naive about PED? Well I wouldn’t say that exactly, but I think a little perspective from one who really knows what they do is in order. Now powerlifting isn’t baseball, but it takes damn hard work, and PED that I and ALL of my peers took in the old days before testing and even before they were illegal convinces me of one thing. If you don’t have talent, you ain’t gonna excell! Anyone who thinks so needs a reality check. I don’t doubt they made guys like Canseco better, but you can’t get there without natural ability no matter WHAT you put in your body. Hitting a major league pitch is about the hardest thing to do in sports, and if it were as easy as taking a drug, then I and a slew of my friends would have all been 300 hitters! That is ridiculous of course, because it takes talent and hard work to play the game, no matter what you might be putting in your body.

I think that the sad part of this debacle not only with Canseco who seems to me just an opportunist with a big mouth and a desire to make money by implicating his fellow players, is that people like Senators who are one step above criminals themselves, made a big deal about something that should have been handled by MLB internally.

While our brave service men and women are at war and dying by the day, these political clowns made a big show of the so called steroid hearings and the Mitchell Report. Why did they do it? Well it just so happens that on that very same day another illegal alien “amnesty” was quietly being worked on in Congress, and so the media circus of televised “steroid hearings” provided cover for these corrupt clowns to totally disregard the will of the American people to secure our borders, and enfore our laws, not undermine them!

There is no epidemic of kids taking them because of major leaguers. That claim has no proof behind it, but since when do politicians tell the truth about anything?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ5f0pcLin8

This interview with Bryant Gumbel is a case in point. I don’t advocate their use, but I get so tired of the lying and distortion surrounding this issue. Have rules against doing something, YES, and those rules should be obeyed until such time as we wish to change them in the proper way, but don’t lie, distort, and misinform, just for the sake of supporting a political agenda. Tell the truth!!!

Interestingly in a side note Tylenol kills about 5,000 kids a year from toxic reactions.

http://marshallbrain.com/cp/tylenol.htm

Why don’t any of these pompous Senators investigate the drugging of our kids by pharmaceutical companies? Answer: because the pharmacuetical companies pay them not to, and so they don’t care!

The Mitchell Report was what??? He had NO power of subpoena with which to compell testimoney. This was NOT a criminal investigation, it was a publicity stunt that cost MLB $40 million, and sullied the reputations of many players who may or may not have done wrong.

What has happened to this country when people can conduct so called investigations that have no legal weight and drop names of people alledging they have broken the law with absoutely no evidence except for the statements of a known felon who had already admitted he lied? He was being squeezed by the fed to “give up people” although he claimed otherwise….duh!

Now that having been said, I feel that if MLB has proof that players broke the rules those players should be punished in whatever way the league rules specify. It should have been done by the league and names released ONLY after incontrovertable proof had been established that they had used banned substances.

Now I must say (respectfully) that if Curt had been fingered by this felon, Curt’s reputation would have been forever tainted no matter how many denials he made. OK, lets be real, you and I know that Curt Schilling has never used PED, and would never use them, I would bet my life savings on that because of his values and the way he lives his life, but he would still bear the stain of doubt that some people would have harbored that he, despite the denials HAD used PED, because some lying felon had thrown out a name under pressure, to make it easier on himself.

Such is the danger in reckless investigations that prove nothing and go nowhere. The Mitchell Report was a form of organized slander, sanctioned by MLB, because even though it is very likely some were guilty, the standard of proof accompanying the public “naming of names” was pitiful to say the least, and would NEVER have stood up in a court of law!

Any competent defense attorney would have made confetti of the “trainer’s” testimony in this case, as he was already a felon who had admitted lying previously.

I would have sued Mitchell and MLB for sheer recklessness and irresponsibility. Why is it that only we as ordinary people are required to obey the law. There is a right way and a wrong way to do things, and MLB and Mitchell, not to mention the criminals in Congress chose the wrong way. No surprise here!

Now for my very favorite part, and Curt, I hope you are reading this! What anabolic steroids do is two fold. First they increase protein turnover rates, which means you can build muscle faster, and they also rev up the nervous system so that you can be quicker and more explosive. These qualities are critically important in most major sports.

OK, that having been said, I will tell you that they not only increase strength, but they increase BAT SPEED as well! So guys taking them would be able to boost their average as well as hit more homers.

What are anabolic steroids? They are synthetic analogues of the male hormone testosterone. Both men and women’s bodies naturally produce testosterone, although in minute amounts compared to how much you could inject or take in a pill.

Anything that significantly boosts testosterone levels will help you with strength and quickness, Androsteindione would to an extent, but a lot of it will convert to estrogen, as will anabolic steroids.

Now here is where it gets interesting. A high testoterone level is healthy in males AND to a degree in females as well. Why do you think that young major leaguers can run faster and hit better than older ones? Yeah….you guessed it, higher natural levels of testosterone!

Why are younger men on average healthier than older men? Yep you guessed right again, testosterone! See where I am going with this. Now I am not saying to use a banned substance, but what I am saying is that all athletes should keep their hormonal profiles as close to their “youthful” levels as possible with safe and legal substances and supplments.

Why??? Because not only does this boost their performance, but it also makes them healthier at the same time! In ths short term it is possible to boost performance with dangerous substances, that harm one’s health.

However in the long term, this approach would never work! Canseco is really the proof. His mistake was not trying to boost his performance, his mistake was the substances he used to do it!

Is safe performance enhancement possible??? Hell yeah! The information is out there for anyone who wants to do the research. Keep in mind that hormone levels dictate performance.

Why do you think Curt Schilling struggled the entire season after his surgery after the 2004 World’s Series? It as because trauma, (and what he went through certainly qualifies as that) depresses hormone levels, well actually it depresses the “anabolic hormones” in the body, while elevating the bad hormones. Voila, tough season for this valiant trooper.

The following season was different for the Schill! He was older, but pitched better, stronger. Gee wiz…..how could THAT be? Hmmm, maybe his natural levels of anabolic hormones had finally recovered and allowed him the energy and strength to pitch more effectively. I would be any amount of money that this was a BIG factor.

Lessen: maintain optimal hormone profile all of your life! Now Curt is going through rehab for the shoulder. If I were Curt, I would consult someone like oh……Charles Poliquin. Why?

Well here is a story about a young lady that coach Poliquin was working with named Adrian Blewitt. Adrian was training in the shotput for the Olympics when she was diagnosed with Hodgekins Lymphoma. She was getting chemotherapy and it initially took her 10 full days to recover sufficiently from a treatment to work out again.

http://tour.ftvideo.com/showgal.php?g=content/genex/profiles/AdrianeBlewitt/2080/2_1&s=4

Charles, throught the use of herbs, supplements, ect. go that turnaround time down to 24 hours! Adrian ended up gaining 11 lbs of muscle while undergoing chemotherapy!!! Astounding!

That is the power and health benefit of maintaining proper “anabolic homeostasis” for athletes and actually for everyone! I haven’t even mentioned other items like “serrapeptase” which breaks down scar tissue, or creatine which believe it or not actually helps speed and explosiveness because it helps the nervous system. Ironically it helps older people as well retain their vigor and health.

So the lesson that hopefull will be learned by MLB players and other athletes alike is that performance enhancement is not a dirty word. It can be done legally and safely, and if done right will actually make an athlete healtheir extending their playing years and also extending the years they can play at the top of their game.

It can be done, and it IS well worth doing, not only for sport, but for life itself.

Just my 2 cents!

George

http://www.age-better.com

ps – Curt, you ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is Curt naive about PED? Well I wouldn’t say that exactly, but I think a little perspective from one who really knows what they do is in order. Now powerlifting isn’t baseball, but it takes damn hard work, and PED that I and ALL of my peers took in the old days before testing and even before they were illegal convinces me of one thing. If you don’t have talent, you ain’t gonna excell! Anyone who thinks so needs a reality check. I don’t doubt they made guys like Canseco better, but you can’t get there without natural ability no matter WHAT you put in your body. Hitting a major league pitch is about the hardest thing to do in sports, and if it were as easy as taking a drug, then I and a slew of my friends would have all been 300 hitters! That is ridiculous of course, because it takes talent and hard work to play the game, no matter what you might be putting in your body.

I think that the sad part of this debacle not only with Canseco who seems to me just an opportunist with a big mouth and a desire to make money by implicating his fellow players, is that people like Senators who are one step above criminals themselves, made a big deal about something that should have been handled by MLB internally.

While our brave service men and women are at war and dying by the day, these political clowns made a big show of the so called steroid hearings and the Mitchell Report. Why did they do it? Well it just so happens that on that very same day another illegal alien “amnesty” was quietly being worked on in Congress, and so the media circus of televised “steroid hearings” provided cover for these corrupt clowns to totally disregard the will of the American people to secure our borders, and enfore our laws, not undermine them!

There is no epidemic of kids taking them because of major leaguers. That claim has no proof behind it, but since when do politicians tell the truth about anything?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ5f0pcLin8

This interview with Bryant Gumbel is a case in point. I don’t advocate their use, but I get so tired of the lying and distortion surrounding this issue. Have rules against doing something, YES, and those rules should be obeyed until such time as we wish to change them in the proper way, but don’t lie, distort, and misinform, just for the sake of supporting a political agenda. Tell the truth!!!

Interestingly in a side note Tylenol kills about 5,000 kids a year from toxic reactions.

http://marshallbrain.com/cp/tylenol.htm

Why don’t any of these pompous Senators investigate the drugging of our kids by pharmaceutical companies? Answer: because the pharmacuetical companies pay them not to, and so they don’t care!

The Mitchell Report was what??? He had NO power of subpoena with which to compell testimoney. This was NOT a criminal investigation, it was a publicity stunt that cost MLB $40 million, and sullied the reputations of many players who may or may not have done wrong.

What has happened to this country when people can conduct so called investigations that have no legal weight and drop names of people alledging they have broken the law with absoutely no evidence except for the statements of a known felon who had already admitted he lied? He was being squeezed by the fed to “give up people” although he claimed otherwise….duh!

Now that having been said, I feel that if MLB has proof that players broke the rules those players should be punished in whatever way the league rules specify. It should have been done by the league and names released ONLY after incontrovertable proof had been established that they had used banned substances.

Now I must say (respectfully) that if Curt had been fingered by this felon, Curt’s reputation would have been forever tainted no matter how many denials he made. OK, lets be real, you and I know that Curt Schilling has never used PED, and would never use them, I would bet my life savings on that because of his values and the way he lives his life, but he would still bear the stain of doubt that some people would have harbored that he, despite the denials HAD used PED, because some lying felon had thrown out a name under pressure, to make it easier on himself.

Such is the danger in reckless investigations that prove nothing and go nowhere. The Mitchell Report was a form of organized slander, sanctioned by MLB, because even though it is very likely some were guilty, the standard of proof accompanying the public “naming of names” was pitiful to say the least, and would NEVER have stood up in a court of law!

Any competent defense attorney would have made confetti of the “trainer’s” testimony in this case, as he was already a felon who had admitted lying previously.

I would have sued Mitchell and MLB for sheer recklessness and irresponsibility. Why is it that only we as ordinary people are required to obey the law. There is a right way and a wrong way to do things, and MLB and Mitchell, not to mention the criminals in Congress chose the wrong way. No surprise here!

Now for my very favorite part, and Curt, I hope you are reading this! What anabolic steroids do is two fold. First they increase protein turnover rates, which means you can build muscle faster, and they also rev up the nervous system so that you can be quicker and more explosive. These qualities are critically important in most major sports.

OK, that having been said, I will tell you that they not only increase strength, but they increase BAT SPEED as well! So guys taking them would be able to boost their average as well as hit more homers.

What are anabolic steroids? They are synthetic analogues of the male hormone testosterone. Both men and women’s bodies naturally produce testosterone, although in minute amounts compared to how much you could inject or take in a pill.

Anything that significantly boosts testosterone levels will help you with strength and quickness, Androsteindione would to an extent, but a lot of it will convert to estrogen, as will anabolic steroids.

Now here is where it gets interesting. A high testoterone level is healthy in males AND to a degree in females as well. Why do you think that young major leaguers can run faster and hit better than older ones? Yeah….you guessed it, higher natural levels of testosterone!

Why are younger men on average healthier than older men? Yep you guessed right again, testosterone! See where I am going with this. Now I am not saying to use a banned substance, but what I am saying is that all athletes should keep their hormonal profiles as close to their “youthful” levels as possible with safe and legal substances and supplments.

Why??? Because not only does this boost their performance, but it also makes them healthier at the same time! In ths short term it is possible to boost performance with dangerous substances, that harm one’s health.

However in the long term, this approach would never work! Canseco is really the proof. His mistake was not trying to boost his performance, his mistake was the substances he used to do it!

Is safe performance enhancement possible??? Hell yeah! The information is out there for anyone who wants to do the research. Keep in mind that hormone levels dictate performance.

Why do you think Curt Schilling struggled the entire season after his surgery after the 2004 World’s Series? It as because trauma, (and what he went through certainly qualifies as that) depresses hormone levels, well actually it depresses the “anabolic hormones” in the body, while elevating the bad hormones. Voila, tough season for this valiant trooper.

The following season was different for the Schill! He was older, but pitched better, stronger. Gee wiz…..how could THAT be? Hmmm, maybe his natural levels of anabolic hormones had finally recovered and allowed him the energy and strength to pitch more effectively. I would be any amount of money that this was a BIG factor.

Lessen: maintain optimal hormone profile all of your life! Now Curt is going through rehab for the shoulder. If I were Curt, I would consult someone like oh……Charles Poliquin. Why?

Well here is a story about a young lady that coach Poliquin was working with named Adrian Blewitt. Adrian was training in the shotput for the Olympics when she was diagnosed with Hodgekins Lymphoma. She was getting chemotherapy and it initially took her 10 full days to recover sufficiently from a treatment to work out again.

http://tour.ftvideo.com/showgal.php?g=content/genex/profiles/AdrianeBlewitt/2080/2_1&s=4

Charles, throught the use of herbs, supplements, ect. go that turnaround time down to 24 hours! Adrian ended up gaining 11 lbs of muscle while undergoing chemotherapy!!! Astounding!

That is the power and health benefit of maintaining proper “anabolic homeostasis” for athletes and actually for everyone! I haven’t even mentioned other items like “serrapeptase” which breaks down scar tissue, or creatine which believe it or not actually helps speed and explosiveness because it helps the nervous system. Ironically it helps older people as well retain their vigor and health.

So the lesson that hopefull will be learned by MLB players and other athletes alike is that performance enhancement is not a dirty word. It can be done legally and safely, and if done right will actually make an athlete healtheir extending their playing years and also extending the years they can play at the top of their game.

It can be done, and it SI well worth doing, not only for sport, but for life itself.

Just my 2 cents!

George

http://www.age-better.com

Looking at an issue off the field of play, yet remaining in sports and revolving around respect and support, I’d like to briefly say a word or two about the ongoing and controversial Mitchell Report – which named Roger Clemens as a user of performance-enhancing drugs.
In my opinion, and despite the flack the All-Star pitcher has received from both the sports media as well as the fans, Clemens is innocent.
After watching the former Houston Astros ace and Texas Longhorn legend during an interview on 60 Minutes, I believe Roger is telling the truth – there’s no way Mitchell’s Report can accurately prove that Clemens used steroids.
I simply don’t believe it and refuse to believe it – and Clemens was right on the money when he made comments about how in America, people are guilty until proven innocent.
And just because his best friend, Andy Pettitte, admitted to doing it, don’t just assume that a) Roger knew and b) he was being injected too.
I’m sure that Pettitte’s admission to steroid use came as just as much of a shock to Clemens as it did to the rest of the baseball world – leaving fans of all ages to wonder what has happened to America’s Pastime.
Here’s the point: despite the lack of evidence against Roger, despite the fact that this is basically one person’s word against another person’s word, and despite a country that will let former President Bill Clinton off with a slap on the wrist for perjury while holding America’s professional athletes to a higher standard, Clemens still isn’t getting much support.
Nor is he getting much respect – and it’s simply sad and pathetic that people would rather believe a convicted felon, forced to tell officers anything and everything they wanted to hear in order to avoid a prison sentence, over a dedicated and hard working athlete like Roger Clemens.
Roger is innocent.
And, I must say that I wholeheartedly agree with Houston Astros first baseman Lance Berkman’s analysis of the Mitchell Report.
“In my opinion, I think that really, the Mitchell Report in general is silly,” Berkman recently told MLB.com reporter Alyson Footer. “Instead of trying to figure out what happened in the past, if they really wanted to address the substance abuse problem in baseball, they should spend that money to implement blood testing. That’s the only way you’re going to catch guys using HGH.
“Who cares what a guy did seven or eight years ago? Let’s work on getting that out of the game now. The only way to do that is to blood test. I’m a huge advocate of that. I think they should do that. I’d be willing to submit to that at any time, and I think that other players should, too.”
Leave it to Lance to say what’s on his mind.
And I love him for it.
Whether you agree or disagree, my view on the Mitchell Report is simply this: it is not completely accurate and definitely lacks the facts in properly identifying players as having used performance-enhancing drugs in the past.
In addition, I completely agree with Berkman’s rants and raves about steroids in baseball.
“Far more good would be done for the game of baseball if we just say, ‘Let’s try to do something about what we can control, which is the future,’” Berkman said. “There’s no doubt that for the sake of the fans, and really for the health of the game, they need to do something. And I think that blood testing is the next step.”
Amen, Lance.
Now let’s play some baseball…