Another MLBer fesses up to being on HGH. This time it's Paul Byrd; big-time pitcher for the Cleveland Indians--yeah the same guys who made it to the ALCS... the same Byrd hailed for his stamina, stick-to-it-ness, etc.
Paul Byrd. He of the book deal, in which he brags about his HGH usage. (HGH is a banned substance under MLB guideines.)
Neither did Brady Anderson or Mark McGwire.
Byrd says he used HGH because he has an "adult growth hormone deficiency syndrome" caused by a pituitary gland problem.
Sorry but every man has glad problems with glands--it's called "getting older". As you age, you lose testosterone and your production of estrogen goes up just enough to make muscle gain, muscle strength, stamina and recovery more difficult. You get tired, you can't do what you used to do when you were younger...
any doctor will tell you this.
So how do you counteract the "aging process" and pituitary problems? Steriods. Human Growth Hormone.
What Byrd did was realize that he had a ceiling--a point at which he was going to start losing physical strength and recovery abilities and he took drugs to beat it.
If you forgive or excuse Byrd's use, you gotta give everyone else a pass. Byrd was using this substance to prolong his career and aide in maintaining world-class performance levels.
He's no different from Jason Giambi, Mark McGwire, Brady Anderson, Jeremy Giambi, Rick Ankeil, Scott Schoenweiss, Wally Joyner, Ken Caminiti, Matt Lawton, Brett Boone,Rafeal Palmiero, Jason Grimsley, Pete Rose Jr. (yup--he used while he was in the minors) and all the countless others who've done "the stuff" as Giambi sheepishly called it.
Now I left one big obvious name off for clear reasons:
No one cares what anyone does except Bonds. The hypocritical powers that be and the league's mob of hypocritical fans have decided (for all sorts of reasons) that no matter who's done/does what, that unless Bonds goes down nothing else matters.
And it's that level of two-faced, assissine hypocrisy of singling out indivual guys for reasons that have almost nothing to do with integrity (i.e. "i don't like him"/he's black, he's mean, he choked in the playoffs, etc.) while excusing/downplaying everyone else's offense is why baseball will get exactly what it deserves in the end.
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