
Originally Posted by
Coach 44
As a former professional baseball player, I can tell you without any reservation that every player that I knew (and they lifted weights seriously) tried some sort of gear at one time or another. Since I live in San Diego, CA guys would ask me to get them this or that in Tiajuana. I didn't want to spend my off season running back and forth to TJ, so I only got stuff for closer teammates and friends. And keep in mind this was in the mid 80's. Guys from the Dominican, Mexico, etc. would come to spring training bigger (and some that had Cushingoids Syndrome so bad that they actually grew 3 or 4 hat sizes), and they didn't even know how to drive iron. We all knew what they doing. But see, in baseball, there are a whole lot more failures that you never hear about. If you didn't have the talent and success to make it to the show, no amount of gear was going to make you instantly a star, much less a Hall of Famer. I feel for the guys today that are becoming the faces of this steroid era, simply because they had outstanding major league careers.
So anyone that points fingers and says anything about another player is an A**hole and a Punk for life.
Do you really think Cal Ripken could play in over 2,500 consecutive games without some sort of recovery help? If so, you're kidding yourself or very naive!