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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Sully- who wrote (61022)7/17/2007 12:28:49 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
Uhhhh....
Does anyone care?
I mean, a baseball "record" isn't quite like the Iranian or NK nuclear crisis. Nobody is going to die if Bonds hits another ball. Except possibly one of those nuts out there in those kayaks in that COLD bay water.

Let's face it: Medical, ie., human biochemical, advances are occurring at an ever increasing pace. Inevitably, someone was going to find better ways of making steroids that extracting them from hog adrenal glands- -like in a flask. Human growth hormone used to just come from humans. Guess what? There was lots of economic incentive to get around that- -originally for legitimate medical reasons. But once a way was found to synthesize it, it inevitably would be used in sports.

When tests were instituted to find these, and required, the race was on to find drugs the tests wouldn't detect. And, of course, they were found. Then the tests were improved. An arms race.

The one positive thing that can be said of this farcical tempest in a teapot is it has advanced understanding of human biochemistry and available drugs.

I'm sure I've pissed off the fanatical sports nuts. You make let me know what you think by writing to idontgiveadamn@getalife.com.
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