http://www.sportmentary.com/2012/08/how-stupid-can-melky-be.html

the culture of cheating in MLB is by far the greatest

Cheating is also at the heart of my favorite baseball ever – It Happens Every Spring.

/has nothing to do with anything
//oh well

Melky Cabrera, that giant fraud

Why do you think this is funny, especially repeating it over and over?

But aren’t performance and treatment pretty close? If Kobe’s knee couldn’t get treated to recover, how well could he really perform? Wasn’t the treatment/performance difference what Rodney Harrison tried to use when he got popped for HGH?

It’s done stateside as well during surgery…they take some of your blood while you are under…spin it…extract platelets, and inject it into the surgery site.

/Just had it done for my knee

Blood doping is where you remove some of your own blood and re-introduce it into your system about a month or so later. I’m not completely sure how this helps. The German procedure is just a platelet enrichment procedure. I think they put the blood in a centrifuge and then put it back. Again, not sure.

You just described blood doping. The remove it, and then spin it, and separate it to make it RBC rich. It is put back in the circulatory system to increase the amount of oxygen you can carry. The dangerous part is that it can become to thick/viscous and actually kill you because your heart can’t pump it.

Why are the Rays on the wrong end of so many of these?

Seriously, I was just kind of randomly thinking today that I don’t care about perfect games as much since they now seem to happen at least a couple times a year.

Yeah, I just more mean I struggle to see a “moral” difference between the two and that one is acceptable and another is not. From what you’ve described, and that sounds about right to what I’ve read, I wouldn’t know how just by looking at them to say one is cheating and the other is not.

What’s really the difference between that and stuff like “blood doping”? Who decides what the line is between treatment, nutrition, and strength training and cheating?

Blood doping is where you remove some of your own blood and re-introduce it into your system about a month or so later. I’m not completely sure how this helps. The German procedure is just a platelet enrichment procedure. I think they put the blood in a centrifuge and then put it back. Again, not sure.

Well, I’m sitting. It’s a joke.

Shawn Merriman, Santonio Holmes, Kevin Williams and LenDale White come to mind pretty quick. no MVP’s there but Merriman was considered a stud when he was busted.

Romanowski, Dana Stubblefield, David Boston, or pretty much any Raider prior to 2000 (BALCO didn’t just supply Bonds in the Bay Area).

You don’t catch what you’re not wanting to find…just because Roger Goodell says they have a strict testing policy doesn’t mean one has to believe it

Yup, exactly.

Kinda seemed like he got too insider with the athletes he covers. You can tell who he’s boys with and not but what actions he tries to justify (see, trying to argue McNabb can still play, not seeing Shaq just walking into a GM job as a terrible idea and actually supporting it)

Excellent points resolutedefense, which is why I’m going to have to ask you to stop. Your logical thoughts and perspectives are putting a serious damper on my non-work related reading. But seriously though, I see what you mean.