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Yes Another Steroids Article... and You Will Read It

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by user BigPPup

Steroids have been all over the media recently.  By now we all know the problems that MLB has faced because of Bud Selig’s willingness to ignore the elephant in the corner.  Well last night fans of sports entertainment had their world rocked as superstar Chris Benoit was found dead along with the bodies of his wife and son.  While the investigation in this case is still unfolding, it does appear to be a strong possibility that steroids played a role in this murder suicide. 

Now I know that sports entertainment and baseball have little in common, hell sports entertainment and pretty much every sport have little in common.  The one common thread is they all have athletes who are wanted to be the best at what they do.  They want to hit the ball farther, jump higher, and look better than anyone else around them.   Too often now day’s athletes are looking to find those advancements in a bottle rather than in the weight room and through hard work. 

The point of all this is, don’ thinks that steroids are something relegated to the back allies, and bad professional wrestling associations.  They are a real problem, and they are affecting children and professional athletes alike.  Think about that next time one of your kids asks you why their favorite athlete is dead.  So remember they are a deal and they are a growing problem in this country that needs to be addressed.


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Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer
926 days ago
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The evil shadow of Jason Giambi just grew a little longer and darker.
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JB82Div-I Stud
926 days ago
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Jason Grimsley, perhaps? That ex-Mets clubhouse attendant?
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Anonymous Fanatic #1
800 days ago
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OMFG not another rant about mythical roid rage. It's a frickin myth man. Extra testosterone makes you feel healthy, good and confident. It doesn't turn you into a homicidal maniac. Go try some good Winstrol or Turinabol before you start talking about things you don't know anything about. It will improve your mood, not make you mean. At least if you are a guy. I don't know WTF it does to women. It's certainly not natural for them to be putting testosterone into their system any more than it would be natural for me to pump estrogen. Anyway, point being, especially for middle-aged men who don't take mega doses of steriods - it's just a form of hormone replacement therapy. Can make you feel better, look better, heal faster, maintain bone mass, stimulate the immune system, improve your confidence and help preserve muscle mass that age relentlessly takes away. So why does it make any sense that steriods are scheduled drugs with possession being a federal felony offense? Does it make any sense to treat someone using steriods like they are a crackhead? Steroids are legal for personal use in most European countries, including England. They have many legitimate medical uses. The laws and society's attitudes, toward what is nothing more than synthetic male hormone, are really warped.
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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This is a stretch- what's next saying the guy in Illinois who killed his family was also on roids?
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Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer
926 days ago
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Nah, he was just pissed that Bonds is gonna break Aaron's record.
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Im not blaming steroids for every problem in the world. I am blaming for the problems they have caused. And more importantly blaming the people in authoritative positions who have ignored them because they add beef to their product.
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Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer
926 days ago
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Have no fear BBP, George Mitchell is going to save sports and society. After all, he now has Giambi scheduled to repeat "I take the 5th" through 12 different lawyers.
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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Yeah but I just don't think you can connect roids with this benoit thing- blame Canadians, blame french people, blame whatever, but him killing he wife and kid isn't a roids discussion.
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ChristofMVP
926 days ago
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If there is a connection between the murder-suicide and steroids, it will get some news coverage. However, nothing truly will be done until a sports superstar - Giambi, Bonds, etc. - does the killing. Then, things may change.
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Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer
926 days ago
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Does that make OJ the first steroid user/murderer?
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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Is that why OJ killed her? That makes sense.
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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But.... (snicker, snicker) O.J..... (pfft, pfft)...'didn't' kill her! BWAAAAA Ha haahahahahahhaaa!
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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I was out back with OJ practicing his chipshots that night, I dont know what youre talking about
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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It's always a good thing to practice your short game- a lot of strokes lost there- good for you and OJ on practicing that. What's his handicap? (insert millions of jokes here)
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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You know what would be cool? Place all of these guys in an arena- give them weapons- cover it live and say whoever is left alive gets a million dollars- a real running man type event-
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JuTMSY4Legend
926 days ago
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Whoa, seriously...I'd give you more plusses if I could...you just reeled off my favorite Schwarzanegger movie of all time...
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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Wouldn't that be a great freakin live show!? Bonds vs McGwire vs Sosa vs Conseco vs whoever else- all hoped up on 'roids- one gets a chainsaw, the other a sword, and so on- kind of gladiator like-
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Right, I agree my thing is we ignore steroids till they hit at home then there is a massive knee jerk reaction. Nobody cared about ephederine till someone OD'ed on it. There is a strong possiblity for a Benoit/steroids connection. If we can take something and learn from that, then we owe that to Nancy and Daniel. No reason to wait till a more mainstream star has the same problem
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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I like ephedra- I think it was fine- aspirin kills more people than ephedra ever did- I wish it would come back-
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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I never said we disagree on everything, Jamelle. The banning of ephedra was plain wrong and misguided by people looking to make names for themselves (Congressmen and grieving wives). It was a whip-snap reaction to Fat Ass Bechler not having enough brain cells to not eat the elephant dosage and slap on a rubber suit while disregarding water and common sense.

Ephedra works. Like anything else (go drink 5 gallons of water without peeing and you'll die - eat a pound of salt) take massive amounts and suffer the consequences.

Of course it grows wildly all over the American West (also known as Mormon Tea) so wait until the say you can't grow your own ephedra! Make it outlawed like another plant that works wonderfully. Of course, marijuana is the one substance you CAN'T kill yourself with massive amounts of: unless a 50 lb bale falls off of a stack of bales and hits you on the head. Even still, you might live but you'd need to smoke a joint to cure the headache.

Congress reacts, it doesn't act. They banned tryptamine (a naturally occurring amino acid) in 1988. Why? 2 people died when they consumed a tainted batch from a shady importer. FDA does not regulate tryptamine as it is not food or a drug, but a "food additive", so instead of making sure we could all get GOOD, REAL tryptamine in the stores, they banned it.

What is tryptamine? An amino acid. That's it. You know that sleepy feeling you get after too much turkey? tryptamine is a natural sleep aid that is amazingly effective and non-addictive. Banned.

This ain't the America that George Washington envisioned.

He wanted me skinny and caffeine-jitter free!!! Un-Ban Ephedra!!!
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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I never said there was anything wrong with it, I called the banning of it a knee jerk reaction.
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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If the opposite of Pro is Con, what is the opposite of Congress?
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Logic
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Congress has fallen under the spell of party lines, special interest and money. Thus leaving it crippled and unable to preform the duties it was created to do. In the words of Jefforson once a government is unable to serve its people, it is the peoples duty to disolve that government.
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Jefferson also said it is the duty of ever American to quietly defy unjust laws...
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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Damn- I mean they should have banned ephedra- yeah- good for them!
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Roids, Guns, drugs, etc... Deadly Nouns don't kill people... People kill people.

If GOD doesn't do it for you, you probably did it to yourself.

Don't give murderers excuses. Especially Dads that kill thier family - They are cowards.

If you're alive and vaguely competent, you are aware of death. There are but a few times it's acceptable to accellerate someone else's. You have to choose to kill.
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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What the hell are you talking about? You are an idiot! Are you one of those people that show up early Sunday morning at my house holding the bible?
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Im not giving him an excuse. It was a horrible crime that took place and if he were alive to do it, I would say he needs to be punished to full extent of the law. Guns do not fall under the same catagory as steroids and drugs. Drugs and Steroids have the ability to alter to the way a person thinks and behaves. Not granting them an excuse of "oh Im high so I can be a jackass" but it gives them the tools they need to become that jackass. And if that can be avoided and stopped then it should be.
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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How am I an idiot for saying People make the decision to kill? Please Jamelle, enlighten me. Nice touch with "idiot" - I would have called me a douchebag.
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Didn't Tupac teach you anything? live by the gun, die by the gun; live by the whopper, die by the whopper; live with a roid raging bipolar maniac, die with a roid raging bipolar maniac.

(Unless you get struck by lightning - e.g. GOD doing it for you)

You die how you live, it's only natural...
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Reminds me of a Metallica lyric...
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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I have one Metallica album but honestly can't teell you the last time I played it or even how I got it to begin with (I forgot to send it back to Columbia House maybe?)
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Fair enough... Im a huge fan so I have em all, and the lyric was off their last album which wasnt as good. But My Lifestyle determines my deathstyle is what I was thinking
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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It just doesn't add anything to the discussion- roids don't kill people my hands holding the pillow that goes over your mouth kills people. It's just douchebaginess-

"You die how you live, it's only natural"?- explain that to the people who have been murdered- explain that to Benoit's kid? Say that to his grandparents face- "sorry, your grandchild died how he lived, it's only natural" What did he do wrong- think before you write Manny-

I guess that's why you like to blog- you can still type while having your foot in your mouth
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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It's all good, Jamel... I mean, it's all GOD, douchebag.
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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I'm gonna make you famous Manny-
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Yeah, because I need your help doing that... Jamel, put the bong down and come back to reality.
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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You know that really pisses me off- "You die how you live, it's only natural"- do we have a place here at armchair for the stupidest quote of all time- can I nominate Manny for retard of the day? What an idiot!!!! "I'm sorry to all the families who have had a love one murdered- but they died how they lived, it was only natural"... you do go to people's houses in the morning holding your bible and telling me how I should live don't you?? Damn, why do you have to show up so early?
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Let me go pick any one quote of yours and we'll have the "Stupidest comment" contest:

Go back and read waht I wrote again (unless GOD does it for you - when it's you're time to go, it doesn't matter how you live)

It's simple logic (with of course you fail to comprehend)-

motorcycle riders die riding motorcycles. Lion Tamers get killed by lions. Only people who aren't unemployed can die on the job.

People who go to war die in wars, people who have promiscuous sex and share needles die of AIDS. It's not any groundbreaking statement I'm making here.

But babies die of SIDS (like a sibling of mine), cars crash into houses (live by the TV, die by the TV....literally) and lightning strikes - figuratively - murders, diseases, accidents... these are acts of GOD (isn't it all)

Are there exceptions to every rule? Usually.

So go pick out those one for instance here and once upon a time there and tell me it beats my threory. I don't care how cool you think you are sniffing my farts just to find some shit. Congrats to you, Jamel. Quite a feat you have accomplished.

Now here's my jock, maybe someone can show you how it to put one on... (not over your nose, Jamel).

And just so you know (because you went ASSuming again), my church is everyday, everywhere and requires no Bible (ever notice the word "Bible" isn't in the Bible? No you din't, did you)
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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So are you saying that GOD MURDERS PEOPLE???? What the hell
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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Yeah. It loves us. It's how it takes us home in style, schmuck. Ever heard of the Great Flood, Black Plague, the impending Apocalypse?

Here's another one for you... GOD created the devil, too!

Jamel, do you want the red pill or the blue pill?
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Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer
926 days ago
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Interesting sermon. "Only people who aren't unemployed can die on the job." Does this mean Tank will live forever or just not die on the football field?
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JamelAll-American
926 days ago
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The devil exists cause he was a cocky son of a bitch who thought he knew everything- hey........ Manny.... could it be- you are the devil?
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Anonymous Fanatic #2
926 days ago
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God murdered my cat when I was 7 years old. I don't know if I can ever forgive him for that. His name was Treehorn, and he was orange and fat like Garfield.
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Niteowl049AAA-er
926 days ago
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Would tickle me if Mitchell starts investigating Selig's role in the steroid era. He is not going to bite the hand that feeds him though.
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AngelaSJV Squad
926 days ago
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I really hope this doesn't turn into a steroids story instead of a "Hey, guys, if you're going to kill yourselves, stop taking your wives/girlfriends/children with you" story.
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