756 Redux

I believe in a word yes.  (I think David's biggest trouble is with Clinical Vertigo.  I haven't heard that it has been resolved.)  For Tiger, it seems to.

If you take it in olf club terms.  Yes.  And that is the only thing that matters.  Speed = distance.  Period.  As argued by a few eggheads on FGI.

  LMAO

It seems we are are in complete agreement.

Except for Mr. Asketerisk.

Someone always trots out The Grassy Jägermeister Theory.

If he was using The Cream, I ascertain, he was working alone.

I have an almost uncanny ability to read and understand the medical and scientific literature.. EVEN without personally benefiting from incredible gifted smartness that everyone recognizes really easily, like, for example being an ENGINEER. 

So, there you have my credentials.

And on the basis of my credentials, allow me to speak with authority on this issue.  Here is a summary of what exists in the medical and scientific literature that unequivocally supports the hypothesis that 'Performance Enhancing Steriods Actually Enhance Muscle/Athletic Performance':




If I went through that too quickly, please allow me to review that again:





So, there is NO GOOD SCIENTIFICALLY-DERIVED evidence that carefully administered androgens under well-controlled conditions in a male subject will enhance his strength, quickness, agility, recovery from exercise or injury, etc and so forth and so on.   Indeed, they appear neither to cause any untoward effects

But the great unknown is this: The scientifically-designed studies to examine these problems do not, and cannot, mimic the illicit practices upon which the anecdotal legend of their chemical power is attributed.  Take B*nds for example.    The federal agents have apparently sequestered EVIDENCE that shows quite clearly that he has consumed, in due course, a lot of different *feces*, in so many different ways, upon a schedule so varied even homeopaths gaze in starry-eyed wonderment and proclaim, "IF ONLY!".  It is just not possible to scientifically replicate such experience.  And so one must leave open the door to the possibility that the c_ocktail of stuff these individuals subject themselves to may be the trick, not the individual components.

Now, my personal hunch is this:  Your typical male with a well-functioning set of cajones, beginning around late puberty, has steady-state levels of androgens that are already "maximal" and sufficient to saturate all receptor proteins for androgens in his various tissues.  Adding more androgens to this mix, illicit or not, has the proverbial effect of continuing to fill with water an already overflowing cup. 

Your typical male does not exhibit a cyclic pattern of variation in endogenous **** hormone production, as does your typical premenopausal female.  We get to a level of androgen production by the mid to late teens, and we pretty much stay there until we are well into our 70's. 

So how does one explain B*nds' muscle growth?

Well, the record shows that after the 1998 season, he became obsessed with enhancing his performance, which included a completely new weight lifting and athletic training regimen.  B*nds' was motivated to get big and strong, and would have been bigger and stronger irrespective of taking any drugs simply because he was working out more than he ever had before.

So, does this mean that B*nds' really didn't cheat?

No.  He definitely cheated because his intention was to do something that, if not strictly prohibited by the then rules of MLB, was nevertheless considered "a cheat" for virtually all other elite sports with the possible exception of cycling.  Everybody knows it is wrong to attempt to achieve enhanced performance chemically. 

He did exactly what the bank robber does when he wakes up in the morning, packs his weapons, a stocking cap, parks his getaway car down the alley, and heads over to the local bank branch he's been casing for the past few weeks....but fails to rob it only because it is closed for a bank holiday.  He had clear criminal intent and would have consummated the crime had he not been too stupid to notice it was President's Day.

Lastly, if any of the modern generation of anabolics do have positive effects in males, the scientific evidence for it exists in dusty old notebooks stacked in the backrooms of gymnasiums dotting the former East Germany.

Did something happen?