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When its all said and done, if he writes a bio I will buy it. Sure its a good story.
3 homers 6 RBis batting 348
nice start Ricky
Nice 5-1 start in the first week of the season for the Cardinals.
I had low expectations coming into this season, and they probobly won't keep all of this up but, it sure is nice right now.
The young guys are playing good, guys like Barton, Ankiel, Molina, Mclellan.
Keep it up Redbirds!!
When its all said and done, if he writes a bio I will buy it. Sure its a good story.
Just think, if the Cards wouldn't have gotten opening day rained out, allowing the rox to get a do-over, they would be 6-0.
Gotta love Tpark. He bags on Pedro in one thread for being on performance enhancers, and starts a thread to praise an admitted one.
Ankiel is a great story though. Gotta respect what he's done to turn his career around.
Should I start one to bag on Griffey for being one too?
Ankiel had them perscribed to him by a doctor at a time when they were legal to use, to speed recovery from an injury.
Wasn't used to enhance his play.
Whatever.
That's a good excuse. Barry Bonds should have thought of it.
Except Bonds didn't have Tommy John surgery on his elbow like Ankiel did.
Man, Ankiel's excuse is air tight. I'm sorry I ever bagged on the guy for admitting to using a banned substance. My bad.
Its not an excuse its fact..
Exactly! It's a fact that he used a banned substance.
Its a fact he had Tommy John surgery and the doctor he went to prescribed it to him.
Dunno whats so difficult about that.
The only legal uses of HGH are to treat dwarfism, hormone deficiency, AIDS treatments, and some other rare disorders.
Any other use is off-label and illegal. The FDA has never approved it for injury recovery, so when (IF) Ankiel used it for that purpose, he was breaking the law.
Not a huge deal compared to the rest of the league, but justifying it with false info (i.e. that it was legal) just isn't true.
Last edited by K-State Spur; 04-09-2008 at 02:03 AM.
Legal under MLB rules...
I'm sure Ankiel only uses HGH now.
hrmm, you never let Bonds have that excuse.
anyhow, the laws of the USA supersede any rules or list of banned substances that can be published by MLB, so 'ILLEGAL' is still the correct word in every way, shape, and form.
arguing that using HGH was legal under MLB rules is like arguing that beating your wife is legal under MLB rules just because there is nothing that specifically mentions it.
If you are on the Cardinals, T Park gives you a free pass. He's still waiting for proof McGwire took steroids.
We had a similar discussion when Ankiel came up last year and started mashing. I like TPark, but the willingness to give Ankiel a pass that other players can't seemingly get strikes me as pretty much being the textbook definition of homer-ism.
If you are on the Cardinals, T Park gives you a free pass. He's still waiting for proof McGwire took steroids.
Not at all, i know Mcgwire took em and I never liked him on the team.
Keep bulling bull out of your ass thats wrong about me, heaven knows everyone else does.
So is he back on the juice while hes mashing right now?
When was Bonds ever prescribed steroids?
just having a prescription doesn't make it legal.
all that means is that the doctor who prescribed them is just as guilty as Ankiel.
i'm sure there are doctors out there who are crooked enough to prescribe you marijuana if you offered enough cash. but if you start toking up around a cop, you better be showing major signs of glaucoma...
So should've Ankiel said, "No, I don't want my arm to heal faster and get back to work" ?
So is Pedro on steroids because he is breaking down?
just because it might make things more convenient doesn't make it legal.
just say, "yeah, like a lot of other guys he cheated. but he plays for my team so i'm going to root for him anyways."
justifying it is just silly.
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