2013 MLB Postseason
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The prohibition of the use of PEDs back in Reggie's era was fuzzy. In 1971, the league issued an order that no player could take any prescription medication without a doctor's prescription, and there was no player testing done. Carl Yastrzemski never hit more than 20 homers until he hired some guy named Gene Berdie to be his personal, off-season trainer between the end of the 1966 and the beginning of the 1967 seasons, and he hit 40 or more in three of the next four years. Then, after the league ordered that players not take prescription medications without a prescription, he never hit as many as 30 homers again even though he played for another 13 seasons.
Didn't McGwire's public relations problems begin when he acknowledged that he had been taking a steroids "precursor" that had been prescribed (or over-prescribed) for him by a doctor?
Someone once posited that if a player was using steroids in that era, then you would probably see some of his teammates have boosted power numbers in subsequent years. Yaz's new teammate, Ken Harrelson, went from 12 homers 1967 to 36 homers in 1968, and little Rico Petrocelli went from 12 homers in 1968 to 40 in 1969. Hmm....
Cal Ripkin, Brady Anderson and even Wade Boggs all had single, mysterious power surge years. So did Davey Johnson and Tommy Harper. Hmm....
Didn't McGwire's public relations problems begin when he acknowledged that he had been taking a steroids "precursor" that had been prescribed (or over-prescribed) for him by a doctor?
Someone once posited that if a player was using steroids in that era, then you would probably see some of his teammates have boosted power numbers in subsequent years. Yaz's new teammate, Ken Harrelson, went from 12 homers 1967 to 36 homers in 1968, and little Rico Petrocelli went from 12 homers in 1968 to 40 in 1969. Hmm....
Cal Ripkin, Brady Anderson and even Wade Boggs all had single, mysterious power surge years. So did Davey Johnson and Tommy Harper. Hmm....
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However, IF they were taking something to help them, they were NOT Illegal.
Personally, I don't care what these players used BEFORE they became illegal.
If it's NOT Illegal when they took them, good for them.
I don't have a problem with McGuire taking Andro, why, because it wasn't illegal till AFTER that point.
McGwire got some of his by prescription from a doctor near the end of his career, but if the Canseco, "you shoot up me and I'll shoot up you" stories are true, then he more likely got those from a horse doctor, making his use of them against league rules.
Amphetamines are now considered PED's.
Jackson has admitted on many occasions using "greenies".
Glass houses.........
Still don't know why the scumbag Concaco that started all this back in the day, was made out to be a Saint when he told on everyone.
