For $250 million, would you take performance-enhancing drugs?

There's a lot of things I wouldn't do for money - even a lot of money.

Apparently I'm in the minority. I mean, I like money. Money is nice. It's just not worth my self-respect.

 

refresh my memory, friends. was much ado made about Brady Anderson after he suddenly became a "power" hitter and slammed, what, 50 homers in that one season?

 

I thought he was named in one of the reports?

 

I remember reading an issue of the now defunct SPORT magazine in which Brady Anderson was one of the players mentioned for potentially hitting 62 homers in a season. They gave odds, and I think Albert Belle might have gotten the best. Bonds was there but wasn't a favorite because he "walked too much," or something like that.

 

Angola...see, i can't remember. maybe he was. on a pure "local angle", I know the No. 1 and No. 2 all-time batting average leaders at the D-I program I cover are BOTH on the Mitchell Report. but when they went pro, i became immediately skeptical at the power numbers they were putting up and, sure enough, they came during that "Roid Era. and both, I have to admit, did fess up to doing it when I talked with them after all of this stuff came out. they didn't go an O.J., Rafael, Barry, Rocket, etc., when asked about it. they came "clean"--excuse the pun--with it.

 

Without hesitation. And that also applies to most of the people voting no in these polls.

 

the better question is would you take performing enhancing drugs to triple, or quadruple your current salary? Go from making 50k at some local weekly to 200k at gig anywhere you choose, plus all the perks that go with that......appearance fees, book deals, etc. which may add another 100k/yr.?

 

Financial security for my children, and their children, and their children and their children to do something that might not have any lasting effect on me?

Take the steroids that A-Rod too for five-six years? Shit, that is less time than I spent in college, and I am guessing the stress of college did not add any years to my life.

 

I would, but that's not what A-roid did... he was just trying to keep up with the joneses.. .he had the talent and ability and was probably already rich when he started taking them, allegedly of course. I think whas he did it was a cold-hearted look at the future. He knew what was going on and wanted to stay in the hunt for some all-time records.
But if someone walked up to me, right now, in my life with a $250 million dollar deal.. hell yeah baby.. hell yeah.

 

Forget $250M. I'd take them if the PEDs guaranteed my job security for the next 30 years.

 

No question.

I'm in the minority here, but I honestly struggle to grasp what's so wrong with what A-Rod did. Steroid abuse wasn't against MLB rules, nor do I think it was illegal to take primobolan (only to distribute it). So A-Rod really did nothing against the rules. His actions were appropriate for the climate Bud Selig fostered.

I also don't think primobolan is known to have many negative effects. It doesn't seem to be any worse for your body than, say, alcohol. If I'm correct, then I don't see what he did to be any more of a performance enhancer than Lasik.

To take it a step further, steroids seems to be somewhat arbitrary. Science has changed humans during significantly during the past 50 years, and there seems to be little rhyme or reason in what we deem socially acceptable. Lasik has arguably improved performance more than anything in the past 15 or so years.

 

Yes. It was against the rules.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/format/memos20051109?memo=1991&num=1

And it was against the law, too.

Of course, there was no testing for steroids until 2003 but that's a separate story ...