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Originally posted by greymule
I'm sure that everyone is shocked and surprised at the fact that two reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle have in their new book asserted that Barry Bonds, despite his many denials, indeed followed a regimen of performance-enhancing drugs, mostly steroids, for several years.
In 1998, two SP softball players from this area changed over one winter from rather normal builds to extreme muscular bulk. These guys were each in their late 30s. One guy's swing didn't change that much, and he remained a singles hitter. The other guy became almost an automatic home run. He would chop at pitches over his head and line them way over the 300-foot fence.
The singles hitter died after playing one bulked-up season. The crusher played 6 more seasons and is now also dead.
I do not know that their bulking up and their deaths were related, but . . .
[Edited by greymule on Mar 7th, 2006 at 04:03 PM]
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Nice story. Only problem is that there is no medical evidence that proper use of steroids is medically unsafe.
Everyone automatically points to Lyle Alzado (sp) in an attempt to show the results steroids may cause to a human. Only problem is that even Lyle's doctor stated that none of Alzado's problems were affected one way or the other by the use of steroids.
Then again, abuse of any substance can cause unhealthy situations and it doesn't have to be drugs, legal or not.