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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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I guess the difference is that the risk-reward here is much greater. You likely aren't going to jail for steroid use unless you are Barry Bonds

He isn't going to jail for using. He is going to jail for lying about using while under oath.

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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Sounds like CSFMB guy wants some attention, because what I heard Mac say was he can understand it.
I can too.
I think most people would respond quite different, if asked this question.

You left HS and went right to the minors, you are 24, have had a cup of coffee in the majors and you might be able to make the major league team year if you can add just a few mph to your fastball. Married, 1st kid on the way, making $24,000 a year or make $480,000 a year? Would you take the pills or injections? I think many many people would opt for the roid.

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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Anyone concerned for their family long term wouldn't do something that stupid and shortsighted unless they were uneducated or generally irresponsible.

Way to indict most of the board here, you and I included, Darkside.

You could easily say the same thing about those who smoke pot and booze to excess on occasion.

Holy crap. Best post in the thread. I............agree.:shock:

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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6 weeks of chemotherapy is worse for you than a 6 week cycle of steroids...

btw: i don't think you can see the roid rage unless the HD is a 57".

can one smoke pot in excess? you'd just fall asleep...

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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Also: if you're so sure, Mac, why not ask all the NFL players you have on? I suppose this is hypothetical, since you don't book interviews. Why not ask them "you're a fantastic athlete, unbelievably fast, huge, I gotta ask: when's the last time you cycled on? Because I was sitting at Mackieland, drinking a cold draught beer from my tap, smoking some Allen Brothers steaks on my Big Green Egg, and I said to myself, 'this guy is a juicer, no doubt about it. They all are.' So how long has it been, buddy?"

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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On top of that spanky, take a few hits of pot or a few beers and then drive. How many of us have done that?

I have. Not proud of it, but I've danced with that devil. I bet I'm not the only one here.

That is far more dangerous than doing steriods once or for a year straight. Can you drive the same after taking steriods as you can after having 3 or 4 beers?

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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On top of that spanky, take a few hits of pot or a few beers and then drive. How many of us have done that?

Beers - yes. Pot - never. I think the analogy was good without the driving part, but whatever. Excessive alocohol or smoking pot ain't good for you.

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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Also: if you're so sure, Mac, why not ask all the NFL players you have on? I suppose this is hypothetical, since you don't book interviews. Why not ask them "you're a fantastic athlete, unbelievably fast, huge, I gotta ask: when's the last time you cycled on? Because I was sitting at Mackieland, drinking a cold draught beer from my tap, smoking some Allen Brothers steaks on my Big Green Egg, and I said to myself, 'this guy is a juicer, no doubt about it. They all are.' So how long has it been, buddy?"

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Mac likes to chide himself after interviews for not "going harder at the interviewee" to paint it like he's a tough interviewer. But it seems its the apology is the rule, not the exception.

He backed down against Benson a few years back.

Conversely, Bernstein was relentless with Jaramillo about Bradley last week. :cheers:


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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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But if you 'roid up all you can during a short sports career and wither away and die by the time you're 45, if in fact you go down just by yourself, are you really helping your family?


Looking at the people indicted so far, I'd say 'yes'.

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But if you 'roid up all you can during a short sports career and wither away and die by the time you're 45, if in fact you go down just by yourself, are you really helping your family?


Looking at the people indicted so far, I'd say 'yes'.



Looking at it from that angle, I can understand your point.

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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spanky wrote:
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On top of that spanky, take a few hits of pot or a few beers and then drive. How many of us have done that?

Beers - yes. Pot - never. I think the analogy was good without the driving part, but whatever. Excessive alocohol or smoking pot ain't good for you.

Right, I'm just saying. Plenty of us here partake in at least one of those acts (booze and/or pot, not driving while doing so). Most on a fairly regular basis. Its not a secret here at all. So, if somebody is going to get all high and mighty about players jeopardizing thier family's future by doing steriods, they need to look in the mirror.

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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are you really comparing pot to steroids? (yes sure why not another pot debate)


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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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I'm 2 comparing drugs that adversely affect your health. Legal or nor, pot, alcohol, HGH, etc all have negative effects on the body. Also, the debate was for an athelte who uses steriods just for a little while to make a carreer last longer. For the most part, we use alcohol or pot a lot more frequently than that.

Somebody also, jokingly, brough up the Baconater, and thats a great comparison as well.

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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Frank, I wasn't getting high and mighty by any means. I know when I drink or whatever else that my family isn't benefiting. But the whole "for my family" angle of athletes' steroid use just bothers me.

Did Barry Bonds begin using the cream and clear for his family? Hell no! Read Book of Shadows--he and many others were on an ego trip and used 'roids/hgh for the notoriety and to get more money for bigger toys and to pay off mistresses, etc. NOT for their families. That's the only angle that really bothers me.

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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Comparing Steroids to pot in terms of what it does to your body...is like saying a gunshot and a shove are basically the same cuz they both negatively affect your body.


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I know you weren't. I'm just saying that we are very quick to point the finger and damn an athelete who comes out and says, "I used for a season or 2." It sucks, and its not right, and I don't like it either. But if we're going to bring long term health and family effects into the debate, what is worse? A ballplayer who uses HGH or something like it for 12 months, or the guy who has 6, 8 beers every Friday night for 10, 15, 20 years straight?

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 Post subject: Re: Mac on Steroids
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Comparing Steroids to pot in terms of what it does to your body...is like saying a gunshot and a shove are basically the same cuz they both negatively affect your body.

I'm not gonna do the long drawn-out thing here but:

No. No it's not.

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Comparing Steroids to pot in terms of what it does to your body...is like saying a gunshot and a shove are basically the same cuz they both negatively affect your body.

I'm not gonna do the long drawn-out thing here but:

No. No it's not.


you don't have to be long and drawn-out but you could at least explain yourself other than just "no it's not"


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spanky wrote:
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Comparing Steroids to pot in terms of what it does to your body...is like saying a gunshot and a shove are basically the same cuz they both negatively affect your body.

I'm not gonna do the long drawn-out thing here but:

No. No it's not.

Oh well that proves your arguement.

If one guy cycles for 10 years and one guy smokes pot for 10 years.

The roided up one will be way worse off.


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On top of that spanky, take a few hits of pot or a few beers and then drive. How many of us have done that?

I have. Not proud of it, but I've danced with that devil. I bet I'm not the only one here.

That is far more dangerous than doing steriods once or for a year straight. Can you drive the same after taking steriods as you can after having 3 or 4 beers?


Steroids + Road Rage = Bad things gonna happen lol.

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Comparing Steroids to pot in terms of what it does to your body...is like saying a gunshot and a shove are basically the same cuz they both negatively affect your body.

I'm not gonna do the long drawn-out thing here but:

No. No it's not.


you don't have to be long and drawn-out but you could at least explain yourself other than just "no it's not"

I was saying that smoking pot negatively affects your body in more ways than a "shove".

Any type of smoke in your lungs = not good. Unless you don't value your lungs.

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On top of that spanky, take a few hits of pot or a few beers and then drive. How many of us have done that?

Beers - yes. Pot - never. I think the analogy was good without the driving part, but whatever. Excessive alocohol or smoking pot ain't good for you.

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On top of that spanky, take a few hits of pot or a few beers and then drive. How many of us have done that?

Beers - yes. Pot - never. I think the analogy was good without the driving part, but whatever. Excessive alocohol or smoking pot ain't good for you.

Darkside is still alive...

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Jesus, this all took an unnecessary turn.

At least DDave's here to save us :)

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It is not like most of thse guys are choosing between being a clean neurosurgeon or a PED using athelete. Given the choice of being the guy who makes the baconator for minimum wage or using roids and signing a huge contract to play a game, I can see why it is done. It is easy to say you would never do it, because for most of us it wasnt an option.
Just because you dont agree with it doesn't mean Mac did it for shock value.

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Lyle Alzado is dead.

Heath Ledger is not.

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Lyle Alzado is dead.

Interestingly enough, Lyle Alzado did not die of a tumor associated with steroid use.

He admitted he used steroids and he died but everyone who has ever used steroids will eventually die.

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Lyle Alzado is dead.

Heath Ledger is not.


Abe Vigoda is.

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....everyone who has ever used steroids will eventually die.

Waht are you, some kind of know-it-all?

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