Sir Charles on Steroids in Sports

Pb: ha I can respect that.

PREACH!!!!!!!! Barkley always on point…

Here’s a translation for my comments: litetitan is a dumb@ss.

THIS IS HUMANITY THIS IS LIFE AND DEATH

You gotta love Charles. He says exactly what is on his mind whether it contains any brilliant thoughts or is just plain ridiculous. Most of us would not take steroids because we know the dangers. Hard to believe Charles took them with his round mound of rebound body.

In such a cut throat business like athletics where everything u do is broken down by analyst who make 6 figures roasting u if u miss a shot blow a save or don’t make a play. In an industry where, 1 athlete can make or break his legacy on performances in the post season. Why would anyone be bent out of shape about steriods. the ncaa has set up guidlines for recruitment but they aren’t followed by organizations and stockholders. U think 1 athlete and a trainer are going to follow the rules because of ethics. Every one of us on this site love sports period but none of us have the ability to play in the league and steroids won’t change that. Think of it this way though. Right now there is enough information out there about the dangers of steroid use if a player wants to risk his life and his future with his family to bring a title to the city so be it. When boston finally won the series and broke the curse of the bambino big papi was completely beastin. He was also juicin so what! Have any of u heard the sports world say that their title will be taken away. How proud did that win make that city? How happy were the red soxs fans? As a culture we love winners and we stampede our way to movies like gladiator and the last samurai where heroes give all they got for glory for victory. I had a chiropractor say to me that playing in a pro football game is like getting into 5 car accidents. Take 16 games and finally u are in the playoffs where it all matters. Win or go home. Why do u think bellicek had those tapes of other teams walkthru’s. Our culture don’t care about ethics we care about winning. How many here have whined about vince carter’s injuries? Maybe if vince took roids he would recover from naggin pain but we label him as soft. Gimmee a break. Whether we like it or not steroids are part if the game and in many championship banners there has been someone who gave his all, including possibility of death, for his team. I am glad to watch I’ll just rock the jerseys

In a cut throat business where athletes get paid MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to hit a ball with a bat, most people don’t want to see them getting doped up. If you want to see people on steroids, watch the WWE. LOL @ trying to victimize these athletes. That’s a new one.

If you want honour in your games, go watch pick up basketball. In the pros, you have gambling, performance enhancers, adultery, dudes focusing on stats, cheaters, liars, and more. It’s been seen over and over in all the major sports. Racism, sexism, steroids, Spitballs, uppers, downers, payoffs, bribes, illegal recruiting, fixed games, dirty players, and more. We keep deluding ourselves into thinking our professional sports are somehow A cut above the world we live in. I think they simply mirror it. Truly….hate the game.
And love Chuck.

Ok for all of you arguing steroids don’t affect your hitting…we can all agree that they increase strength right? So while they won’t improve your hand-eye coordination, they will increase the distance you can hit the ball…how many of barry or sammy’s home runs would have fallen short without the roids and become fly outs, run outs etc reducing their batting percentage? No one is taking Boston’s championship away, but it’s definitely tainted…as are all those records. The home run race was exciting at the time, but when was the last time you heard about that being a great display of athletic prowess…if I found out Jordan had been doping up in his later years, I wouldn’t consider his feats as amazing. Wouldn’t everyone be disappointed to discover Usain Bolt had been doped up? Of course you would. It’s not all about winning.

Bryan insulted somebody’s credibility after writing multiple posts on the benefits of steroids.
What people never mention is how badly some steroids mess up your endocrine system, and they’re why there were 40-50 year old former pro wrestlers dropping like flies a little while ago, and why people think flo-jo only made it to 40-something.
People using steroids to max out their peak means they’re sacrificing years, maybe decades of their life, which is their choice. But, they also force other athletes to use them to keep the playing field even, costing other people years of their lives, or their jobs.
Steroid users are scum.

There are some sports where steroids are dangerous no matter what, like the NFL where steroids actually increase the likelyhood of injuring another player. For the most part, steroids should be legal, but only as a tool to recover from injury. But as we always do in our society, we abuse a substance before we completely understand it, ruining any benefits it would have given if it were researched properly

These comments have been entertaining to read. A few points:
- Yes, steroids do push the ceiling of what a player can achieve. Not even steroids, nitric oxide helps dilate your blood vessels so your muscles receive more oxygen, and thereby increasing your strength. You WILL be able to lift more on NO than without. That is FACT.
- Obviously, professional athletes are gifted. You can’t be a star in the league without real talent. Steroids do not get you talent. But to bring up “hand-eye coordination” as a counterexample to the benefits of steroids, is straight silly.
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@Bryan– you don’t think steroids helped Bonds hit .370? Steroids make you stronger. Strength leads to bat speed. Bat speed leads to greater force, which makes the ball go further. Instead of routine fly-outs or grounders, steroid-enhanced strength makes those flyballs go out of the park, and those grounders hit a lot sharper and through the infield. So yes, steroids helped with the 72 homers and it did CONTRIBUTE to his .370 BA.
This is not to say talent is not also required, but I don’t know how anyone can deny the effectiveness of steroids.

Did Charles endorse steroid use? No. Did he say he would take it as a poor young man in order to get millions? Yes. Does a pro athlete & entertainers have some responsibility as a “role model” whether they want to be one or not? Yes. Does the parents, coaches and other adults have an even bigger responsibility in this matter? YES.

My point about how much baseball players don’t care about steroids is because every pitcher out there is looking for a way to get ahead. Home pitchers are given a few balls before every game to get in “game shape” – In high school I used to pinch the laces of the ball so that they would be raised giving me a few extra inches on my curve ball–for example. – And the majority of baseball players who use steroids do it before they are professionals. It is a joke, but it also is not as important as the media makes it seem – (w/ guys like bonds, who won the mvp in like *(89?)* its different, because he is obviously already “enhanced”

I swear, the majority of the commenters here don’t ACTUALLY know what a steroid IS, or DOES.
Most of you are talking out your @ss.
Google ‘steroid, definition’.