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This should be interesting - too bad it took so long to get the Players Union on board.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...s_mlb&c_id=mlb
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...s_mlb&c_id=mlb
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I think it's too late. Pharma-players will get the newest and greatest, and like most things - they'll be ahead of the "law" while the system plays catchup. HGH should have been done 10 years ago, but baseball cannot crack the union whatsoever, so they get the scraps and call it a success."Chuckie doesn't take on 2-0. Chuckie's hackin'." - Chuck Carr two days prior to being released by the Milwaukee Brewers -
Surprised not much commenting on this one, it's a big leap, I like it.Originally posted by Ben Grimm View Post
Sure Ben the labs will always be working hard to make some PED' undetectable.
But not all are undetectable and the key word is unscheduled, that has to scare some off, you don't know when it's coming.
One more item if I got it right. Players will have to submit a sample that will be kept on file, with testosterone level.
That will also be tested randomly and if the random level is higher than the earlier sample that was saved, then they dig deeper.
I don't see how it could be too late, it just took a while, it has to make potential users think.Comment
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Yea, it certainly can't hurt. Better late than never I guess.Originally posted by SHOELESSJOE3 View Post
"No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”Comment
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Low scoring eras suck, this testing is bad news.Lou Gehrig is the Truest Yankee of them all!Comment
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Tests for HGH are obsolete right now. I know this from personal experience. These tests will have no effect on anything. Try watching a NFL game. Or better yet go to a dance club and check out the security staff. The fact is that so many folks are totally obsessed with the misguided notion that stats can be compared to stats from different eras.Originally posted by SHOELESSJOE3 View PostComment
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You lost me with the security staff at dance clubs. Since when are bouncers tested for PED's?Originally posted by Steven Gallanter View PostLou Gehrig is the Truest Yankee of them all!Comment
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The only people that will be caught are the ones not doing it right.
Synthetic testosterone leaves the system 36 hours after the last injection.Comment
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Still done before the NFL...Originally posted by bluesky5 View PostYea, it certainly can't hurt. Better late than never I guess.RIP - HGF [1937-2009]Comment
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Did you know that athletes in sports have been abusing HGH since the early 80's? A testing procedure for it didn't get under way until the late 90's. It was only in 2002 that the first positive test for a designer anabolic steroid was made. Two years later the Olympics put an HGH test in place that has only caught 8 people worldwide and none of those have been in the Olympics. The window of even catching someone under that test was one to two days. The new test that was unleashed only last year raises that window to one to possibly three weeks.Originally posted by Ben Grimm View PostComment
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How does this compare to other leagues? Does the NBA even test for steroids and HGH?Comment
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It doesn't go into too much detail but here is a brief overview of other sports: http://www.csnbayarea.com/blog/biz-b...a-nhl-olympics
EDIT- here is baseballs protocols for comparison: http://www.csnbayarea.com/blog/biz-b...ug-testing-mlbLast edited by brewcrew82; 01-11-2013, 06:15 AM.RIP - HGF [1937-2009]Comment
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But it won't only be tested for testosterone level also PED.Originally posted by Afterglow View Post
Are you trying to shoot down unscheduled testing, I think it scares off lots of potential users.
Lets face it no drug testing program is perfect but now with unscheduled testing, it's more risky.Comment
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The NBA's policy seems pretty weak in comparison. Who's to say 85% percent of the players aren't roided up? The NHL doesn't even bother testing during the playoffs and offseason. I guess that explains the postseason facial hair, what a joke. I just assume every football player is on some sort of PED, and nearly every former lineman turned broadcaster seems to lose 60 lbs after their playing days are done.Comment
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Doesn't look that way Steve, in the last couple of seasons some have been caught using.Originally posted by Steven Gallanter View Post
Not to deny any drug testing program will be perfect. It's always a battle the swings both ways. The labs getting ahead of the testers, the testers catching up, the labs trying get ahead, it never ends.
The biggest gain, the key word............unscheduled, your going to really think it over to use now. Yes some are still undetectable but not all are. Are you going to risk using, then you get that unscheduled call. Of course there will still be some dummies who will, but it has to reduce the number of users.
Or, we could see it your way Steve, throw our hands up in the air and say, the hell with it, we can't catch them all, do away with testing.
What make more sense, do the best we could or stop all testing, come on.Comment
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