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What! How could such a thing possibly be true of a sportsman of such high integrity? It's a travesty and a smear campaign, I tell ya.
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What! How could such a thing possibly be true of a sportsman of such high integrity? It's a travesty and a smear campaign, I tell ya.
BagfullofPings
IEHHC
Who cares!!
We have created the system, yet we bitch and complain when we find corruption?...:sadstare:
Let's cap team sports. Basketball, baseball, football, etc. $1,000,000 and that is it. That includes advertising contracts. If they don't like that, they can f**k off and go to work at McDonalds. The corruption ,steroids, and antics would disappear.
Jason
We have created the system, yet we bitch and complain when we find corruption?...:sadstare:
Let's cap team sports. Basketball, baseball, football, etc. $1,000,000 and that is it. That includes advertising contracts. If they don't like that, they can f**k off and go to work at McDonalds. The corruption ,steroids, and antics would disappear.
Jason
yea i heard about it on bob and tom this morning
eh, let's just assume they've all done it, and enjoy watching baseballs fly out of the stadiums. Give em more roids so they can hit my car in the parking lot, then I can make some money off of baseball too.
openendstraight
Grand Corona
It is no different than someone cheating on their taxes to gain money and are both illegal. However in baseball remember it was not a banned substance.
If you think baseball is the only sport where this has been going on you are mis-informed.
I could tell stories for hours on how popular this is on the college and pro levels in football.
If you think baseball is the only sport where this has been going on you are mis-informed.
I could tell stories for hours on how popular this is on the college and pro levels in football.
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Volusianator
BoM Nov '07 & Jan '09
I for one could care less, at the time it was not a banned substance. Even so, I think it's more of a crime that our government wasted money on hearings for this. I think so many bigger fish to fry than baseball steroid users. .02
Actually the testing in MMA is very strict. They test before every event and randomly as well. In fact people have failed in the past for creatine witch is not illegal and can be bought at GNC and the few that have got in trouble for using roids get suspended and fined. So I think to say roids are a norm in MMA is a false statement. Roids are used by a select few who don't want to put in the hard work for the winning results and I think someone in every sport has probably gotten popped for roids.
I shake my head when the baseball people say that roids were not a banned substance at a certain date in time. The only date that really matters is when US laws declared that steroids were illegal.
I was a huge Yankee fan as a kid. As time wears on, I really have lost interest in all sports.
I will take the good old days of Mantle.
I was a huge Yankee fan as a kid. As time wears on, I really have lost interest in all sports.
I will take the good old days of Mantle.
openendstraight
Grand Corona
So you have never broken a law. I find that hard to believe. If I told you I had something you could take that could increase your production, and therefore increase your income, would you take it?
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dpmrpa
Indiscriminate Bomber
U should also cap the owners and stop them from sending jobs overseas. Killing our middle class and creating a middle class in other countries. charity begins at home not in China.
my point is that steroids are illegal in the US. If i get caught with them, I will be in some trouble. How is it that a baseball player tests positive, obviouly there is proof, and nothing happens to him. Getting banned for a few games or a season is not what I call punishment. Where are the criminal charges?
as they say, money is the root of all evil. it makes baseball players take steroids, and it makes our politicians crooked.
openendstraight
Grand Corona
I agree they punishment should be:
First time ..........suspended for half of the season and loss of pay.
Second time.......suspended for one year and loss of pay.
Third time..........suspended for life and loss of pay
The loss of pay should include any and all money.
you are forgetting the criminal end of things. they have broken a law besides a baseball rule.
i doubt anybody is going to jail regarding steroid use, and i am sure that prison sentences usually involve selling of steroids, but these steroid users to deserve to get their balls broken a little bit by the courts.
openendstraight
Grand Corona
It is not illegal to do drugs. It is against the law to buy, sell, and/or posses drugs. Just like marijuana, is not illegal to be high.
I know what yo are going to say, if your do drugs you have to posses them, this is true. In order to be charged with that, you have to be caught with the drugs.
I know what yo are going to say, if your do drugs you have to posses them, this is true. In order to be charged with that, you have to be caught with the drugs.
Craig Mac
BoM 4/10 7/11 12/14
DUI???
openendstraight
Grand Corona
Now you are mixing laws. Liquor is not illegal to do either. It is only against the law to drive while intoxicated.
openendstraight
Grand Corona
U.S. Federal Law
The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990 became law on November 29, 1990, when former President Bush signed the Omnibus Crime Control Bill. The law applies in every Federal court across the country. It places steroids in the same legal class - Schedule III -- as barbiturates, LSD precursors, veterinary tranquilizers like ketamine and narcotic painkillers like Vicodin. Simple possession of any Schedule III substance is a federal offense punishable by up to one year in prison and/or a minimum fine of $1,000. Simple possession by a person with a previous conviction for certain offenses, including any drug or narcotic crimes, must get imprisonment of at least 15 days and up to two years, and a minimum fine of $2,500. Individuals with two or more such previous convictions face imprisonment of not less than 90 days but not more than three years, and a minimum fine of $5,000, just for simply possessing. Selling steroids, or possessing them with intent to sell, is a federal felony. An individual who sells steroids, or possesses with intent to sell, is punishable by up to five years in prison (with at least two additional years of supervised release) and/or a $250,000 fine. An individual who commits such a violation after a prior conviction for a drug offense faces up to ten years imprisonment (with at least four additional years of special parole) and/or increased fines.
Nowhere in there does it say under the infuence.
The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990 became law on November 29, 1990, when former President Bush signed the Omnibus Crime Control Bill. The law applies in every Federal court across the country. It places steroids in the same legal class - Schedule III -- as barbiturates, LSD precursors, veterinary tranquilizers like ketamine and narcotic painkillers like Vicodin. Simple possession of any Schedule III substance is a federal offense punishable by up to one year in prison and/or a minimum fine of $1,000. Simple possession by a person with a previous conviction for certain offenses, including any drug or narcotic crimes, must get imprisonment of at least 15 days and up to two years, and a minimum fine of $2,500. Individuals with two or more such previous convictions face imprisonment of not less than 90 days but not more than three years, and a minimum fine of $5,000, just for simply possessing. Selling steroids, or possessing them with intent to sell, is a federal felony. An individual who sells steroids, or possesses with intent to sell, is punishable by up to five years in prison (with at least two additional years of supervised release) and/or a $250,000 fine. An individual who commits such a violation after a prior conviction for a drug offense faces up to ten years imprisonment (with at least four additional years of special parole) and/or increased fines.
Nowhere in there does it say under the infuence.