biggentleben
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That's comparing apples to elephants, though. I can get a Tramadol for intense pain from my doctor after he examines me and determines there is, in fact, an issue. That same doctor, however, will not prescribe me medical marijuana because my knee is balky in a state where such is not legal. Doctors act within the bounds of the law, and prescribing medications for a diagnosed mental illness is a whole different thing than stating that a doctor would go around the law to prescribe illegal PEDs or sign off on such.
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FFS, I cheer for teams over the Gophers at times as well. Doesn't change my integrity. Pretty poor reason to bash her when there are so many good ones. She's been cheering on Iowa since October via Twitter. I'm sure there's some political motive as well, but she didn't suddenly change alliances for votes for the Rose Bowl.
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Adderall is not in the same vein as your PED argument, unless you'd like to exclude Mantle, Mays, and basically anyone else from post-WWII until the 1990s from HOF, and the percentage of MLB players to general population has already been addressed.
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Can't be as bad as her congratulatory tweet to the Hawkeyes for winning the Big Ten just before the Spartans scored the game winning touchdown.
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They aren't getting them from doctors, however. Perhaps some forms of HGH that are legal in the US but banned by pro sports, but otherwise, they're getting PEDs from non-medical sources in this country or going outside of the United States, so I'd not support besmirching the medical profession to make the point.
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You know a lot different doctors than I do, then.
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Which is why you have doctors involved at every level and testing done to ensure that certain levels are kept by those using it. Not too hard to regulate. Psychotropic medications are incredibly dangerous when abused and manipulated, but when supervised in their use, they can be very effective for those they're intended for.
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I also believe that there are quite a few more people that would have the diagnosis if they didn't have the stigma of needing to see a mental health professional in many states to be diagnosed as an adult, so general population statistics are often skewed. Professional athletes are provided the best medical care, mental and physical, and therefore, are diagnosed more properly than the general population.
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Two snoozer games today. Hopefully the championship game is better than the two today. I was more impressed with some of the other bowl results so far, specifically a team like Houston knocking off Florida State caught my eye.
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That's also a pretty blanket assumption that the guys I've known in the NFL would scoff at. Does it happen? Sure. Is it even 25% of players? Doubtful. For some reason the average fan of baseball seems to sooth himself/herself with "well, ALL football players do it, so at least we're not football!". That's complete bunk. Heck, the NFL has a more stringent PED testing program than even the Olympics, so to assume that players in the NFL are taking PEDs rampantly is pretty bold, to say the least.
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I watched a number of his games in both halves of the season, and I just don't see much there. He had a bout in September where he simply lost control of the ball and walked 1/4 of his entire season's total in a span of 9 1/3 innings. Up until September 1, he had no difference in his game first half to second half whatsoever. Heck, even with the September struggles, he even had a better overall ERA in the second half than he did in the first half.
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HGH really does next to nothing for performance enhancing as far as making a player bigger, faster, or stronger. What HGH has truly been shown to do is allow an athlete to heal better (and frequently in a better, more healthy way) from injuries. Sometimes, it may allow an athlete to heal faster, but that has also not been proven to be consistent. The media information and the medically proven information on HGH are two very different things. HGH is a recovery-enhancing substance, by and large. To bring up the complaints of an uneven playing field by citing HGH is an odd usage of that complaint, in my opinion. There are plenty of synthetic and manufactured testosterones that will truly enhance a player's ability to perform their sport, and those are certainly not good. As mentioned elsewhere, though, baseball has never really had a level playing field. For years it was because certain players were excluded, due to their color, religion, nationality, or what have you. Then, it was due to the widespread use of things like greenies and amphetamines. The drug craze of the 70s and 80s absolutely allowed many players to play multiple days in a row when their behavior should not have allowed them to do so. Ellis Valentine made that exact statement, saying that cocaine was the reason he both had a major league career and lost his major league career. Then you had the anabolic steroid explosion of the late 80s and early 90s that bled into the synthetics of the late 90s and early 2000s that still exist today.
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Impossible for a true Gopher fan.
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Or it could be a good strategy to load up the bullpen to cover a team that expects to have slim leads to protect when they have leads and want the best they can get to ensure those leads make it through from the 5th to the 9th innings.
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A few fairly prominent ones as the year closes: Dave Henderson, Meadowlark Lemon, and Bobby Drews.
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And Johan was not an ace in his rule 5 season either, but he developed into one. That's how a lottery ticket player works. They don't explode into stardom, but they're guys found under the radar who bring huge returns.
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DeShields got ROY votes just last season as a rule 5 guy. The Twins got a big time lottery ticket just last year in JR Graham, who has frontline starter stuff when healthy, but just couldn't stay healthy. On the lottery tickets in trades, that's pretty much bunk as well. Zachary Bird was a throw in last summer in a trade and fits a Liriano pre-trade mold very well. Heck, Fangraphs ranked the "second" pitcher acquired for the mighty Juan Uribe and Kelly Johnson, John Gant, as the #3 prospect in arguably the best system in the game before a rewrite of their list. Gant wasn't on any radars at all coming into 2015, and he's now discussed with a ceiling of a #2 starter. It's all a matter of scouting other systems and developing them once they're in your system.
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Is the chop? I'd have Sioux I work with who'd strongly argue with you. I can find a lot of people who've never seen a res that believe it's insensitive, though. I guess I take the opinion of those who are supposed to have been offended over those saying they should be offended. The lack of titles is disappointing, but also one of the reasons John Schuerholz is drastically overrated. He built for "the streak", never to put the team over the top, and guys like Smoltz and Leo Mazzone have called him out on it.
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That's long held stuff there! Heck, Turner hasn't had controlling interest in the club since 1993. The chop I won't disagree with, though many fan bases have similar stuff, like the Vikings horn.
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Just curious why anti-Braves?
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I guess I never, ever assumed that. The issue brought up multiple times by multiple posters is that there are no good candidates this year for the simple reason that each is so far into his/her party's line right now. How each will pander to the middle during the general election is what will be intriguing and decide the presidency, but it's also why nothing ever truly gets done in Washington anymore. In politics, we've all taken our ball and gone home. The issue that I have is when I've heard of issues discussed and attempted compromise, the compromise rebuttal from the right has typically been incredibly nonsensical, and I don't mean used car salesman nonsensical, more like grandma's got dementia and called an orange a squirrel nonsensical. Neither side is blameless certainly, but finger pointing doesn't get anywhere. When someone says that there's an issue with a lack of compromise, rather than saying "well, so do you!", instead say, "really, then how can we fix it together?" That's the change that's happened in my lifetime in Washington. Politics have always been a self-serving venture for the money-hungry that choose to line their pockets with political position, but at least there was an expectation that something would get done in session. Now, it seems there is pride taken in forcing a stalemate with "the other side".
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They did it with Kershaw.
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And we're back to exactly why jack crap gets done to actually impact the country. We're all so worried about establishing which side we're on that we get so deep into that side and can no longer reach across the aisle to anyone with a slightly differing viewpoint to our own. Screw caucuses. Our own civil discussions need to be where these changes start. Education on the issues among the masses, who can then feel free to discuss topics in a way that can be brought forward rather than turned into nothing more than a monkey-style feces-flinging exchange. I can respect someone who disagrees with my views if they support their position and are willing to listen to mine. The crazy part is that the two of us in our disagreement can frequently come to a place where we can work together on that issue because we can be civil.
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No comments on my Seth Green joke. Sad day.
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And the person in that office matters about as much toward actual policy in the country as what color shoes I wear, sadly, outside of PR purposes for the nation. Our Congressional representatives tend to play our president like a puppet. And yet, instead of telling those parties that do exactly that to the President and reduce that person to a glorified royalty with minimal political impact and more of a figurehead status than anything, the voters take those parties to their deepest extremes at every election cycle, creating a deeper and deeper gridlock in Washington. Really, regardless of the President elected, we get what we deserve out of our politics in Washington because we so deeply dive into the ends of the parties, not because we try to buck them.
