2021 MLB Regular Season thread

No way, those are spectacular!

 

Oh, I got something worse.

 

I knew someone would remind of me of just how many people are relentlessly clueless about that entire discussion. Thank you for not disappointing me.

 

And thank you for continuing to prove you can’t take a joke for even a half-second. As though I don’t remember the dozens of Braun posts. But who knows, maybe you’ll surprise everyone and not respond to this.

 

Next time you make an attempt at a joke, try including humor. It helps.

I'm sure you remember many of the related posts. Understanding them, well, that seems questionable.

In the case of Laureano, he isn't disputing the positive test. He's playing the same game every player seems to turn to these days, suggesting that he somehow ingested PEDs by accident.

 

Or the Father's Day baby blues for teams with red, like the Angels.

 

Nope. You couldn’t resist. 15 years for me here and you haven’t evolved at all.

I’ve been back here a couple years now, and I can’t recall a single fight between us. I make one throwaway joke and you go full Rex Banner. You just can’t help yourself. But that’s fine. I won’t engage anymore.

Not sure if you’ve ever watched Justified, but Raylan Givens had a great line that I’m going to paraphrase here: “If you run into an asshole one day, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes every day, you’re the asshole.” Do whatever you want with that. It seemed apt here.

Have a good life.

 

Interesting piece here suggests it's possible for foreign players to ingest Nandrolone in meat, but I'm gonna guess nobody's getting popped for inadvertent ingestion in July or August, when they haven't eaten a meal out of the United States since February.
The Strange Realities of Inadvertent Doping

 

And therein lie the vagaries and ambiguities of facts and truth.

This isn’t all that farfetched, and the analytical chemistry and food science communities have been aware of the possibility of a transfer of drugs from food-producing animals to humans for decades. The possibility of nandrolone-contaminated meat leading to a positive drug test presented itself as an issue at the 2000 Olympics. By 2008, researchers advised Olympians to refrain from eating “indefinable meat dishes (such as pasta filled with meat), which could be made from low-quality meat,” boar meat, and pork offal. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) issued a statement in 2011 urging athletes to use caution when consuming meat. The U.S. Anti-Doping Association (USADA) issued its own guidance on clenbuterol, suggesting that players avoid eating liver, liver products, and “unusual or exotic meat products” when not in the States.​

But it’s not just non-U.S. meat products that have been scrutinized; trenbolone and zeranol are on the prohibited substances list, but they are also on the list of synthetic hormones approved by the FDA for use in food-producing animals. In a rare case, it was determined to be unlikely than an athlete had intentionally consumed zeranol, and her positive test was attributed to consuming zeranol-tainted meat.

To date, no official warning or guidance regarding meat has been issued by the MLBPA, although players are generally told that they must take responsibility for everything that goes into their bodies. But there are disparities in food safety regulations from country to country, and as baseball continues to enlist players from around the globe, educating future prospects on the possibility of unintended doping will continue to be a challenge. To this end, MLB is undertaking an educational effort directed towards younger prospects in Latin American countries.

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So an athlete could legitimately say they ate certain meats without knowing they contain prohibited substances.

At the same time an athlete could manipulate the truth by knowing certain meats will lead to positive results but still claim "Welp, I didn't know that!"

 

That's one hell of an overreaction. My apologies if my responses were a bit over the top. People have been jumping me for eight years about this crap and it gets really old. Normally, I'm a far kinder, gentler sort of OOP, but a few topics bring out the old habits.

 

Absolutely fair. We're good.