I agree that trying to take down Tejada with him or even just claiming that a B-12 shot had winnie in it was a contemptable and desperate attempt to clear his name. But I also agree that the media and fan onslaught has blown the whole positive steroid test way out of proportion. It's only unfair to the other players because they are not supposed to use ergogenic aids. (the prohibition of wich by the way doesnt make much sense to me.) But unfair though it may be, it only affords a tiny fraction of the advantage the mainstream baseball fans and media seem to think it does. Nobody is going turn their routine flyouts into 550 foot homeruns with a little cycle of stanazolol. It doesnt make it (androgen use) fair, but it WOULD be fair if it (androgen use) was allowed in reasonable doses. The idea is preposterous to the lamen because they have been mislead into believing the health risks of responsible healthy adult male users to be on a significantly grander scale then they have been shown to be in reality. Unlike Palmiero, at least Canseco (even if he is a tattletale) attempted to present that point of view. (until they had him under the pressure of a congressional hearing). Palmiero just hypocritically pretended to be on the "only horrible evil people with a death wish would ever consider using AAS" bandwagon, whilst continuing to use in secret. Truth be known I dont really care that either of them or any other player used, because I know that it still takes all the same dedication and hard work, just with a bit better results from the training and eating when an athlete uses. But its frustrating that the ratting and lying is furthering the exaggerated stereotypes about drug users in sports. If people used actuall peer reviewed research of resonable supraphysiological doses of androgens IN HEALTHY ADULT MALES, to base their view upon instead of the rediculous factless dribble that their fed practically on a daily basis, then theyd realize that if used with intelligence performance enhancing drugs could actually improve the sport, and it would be a more level playing field then what we allready have. I mean, the bodybuilding community knows that when used intelligently, aas are some of the more comfortable to use drugs in their arsenal, with the possible exception of GH, or Thyroid hormones, and some might argue the IGF-1 is more comfortable. But there are drugs the mainstream is not even really aware of (at least not for what they are being used for) that have much less tolerable side effects then steroids (slin, pgf-2a, DNP, sympathomimetics such as the popular beta agonists clen, albueterol, ect.) But even those drugs pale in comparison to the PERCEIVED imacullacy of AAS negative effects. And guys like Palmiero , and Canseco would be (are in Jose's case) treated with contempt likening to that of a convicted child mollester if they tried to convince the media, congress, or the general public of that simple reality.
