>>>>>Give the poor guy a break for a minute. He just wanted his 15 minutes of fame <g>
>>>>>
>>>>>He probably did'nt think that this would lead to a little bit of hell shortly after. Hmm it looks like this sport is even more corrupted than I thought.
>>>>>
>>>>>If it was just for those stupid adults I'd say let them take whatever they want to take. The sad part is the influence they have on children taking them as role model.
>>>>
>>>>Yes, and in this case the "benefits" of drugs are VERY obvious given his known performance the day before and the most amazing ever performance the day after (i.e. the day the drugs were found in his samples).
>>>>
>>>>Maybe you remember Tim Raines stealing all those bases, found to be on drugs, and couldn't come close after he was "clean".
>>>>
>>>>Sad all around.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I thought Tim Raines's drug was cocaine. I didn't know that was performance-enhancing.
>>
>>Yes, I believe it was. But I'd call it "performance enhancing" given his stats pre/post addiction. Not that I have the stats at hand, but remember exactly the thought at the time.
>
>
>Doesn't it seem more likely the cocaine habit reduced his playing skills?

But he was stealing lotsa bases while on cocaine. Steals went way down once he stopped cocaine. You tell me.

It may be like the 60 Minutes story a few years back, where some small western town in the 'States banned smoking in bars.
Bar traffic went down to near nil, so much so that bar owners convinced city hall to lift the ban.
Along comes the doctor from the local hospital who showed that heart attacks dropped considerably during the period of the ban so he concluded that it was due to the smoking ban in bars. Only trouble is, people will smoke anywhere, but many people will drink only at bars. So my conclusion was quite different than the doctor's. My conclusion was that drinking causes increased heart attacks IN THE INSTANCE CITED.

In other words, what seems logical may not always be so.