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Re: Former commissioner Fay Vincent calls on Selig to hire an investigator to look into Bonds situation <FONT COLOR=BLACK><b>[</font>Reply to #<a href="read.pl?1-2515">2515</a>]</b>
3/11/06, 10:18am
I'm pretty certain that if MLB doesn't have a list of banned substances (which I thought they did), they have a list of APPROVED "supplements".   When Mark McGwire was using Andro it wasn't on the banned list and now it is.

What the PLAYERS should be doing is NOT putting anything in their body that the team's trainers don't give them.  That way, there's no question about what they're taking - and if there is, you can pinpoint the person to 'blame' easily.

>Major League Baseball needs to be more cut & dry & very
>specific about what is considered legal & illegal. You have a
>number of drugs/performance enhancers/supplements out there
>that need to strongly considered & then ruled on by a
>committee.
>
>Obviously we have steroids out there. But, what about other
>growth hormones in general? Moreover, what about things like
>Creatine, Andro? What about anphetamines? Ephedra? I would bet
>that there are more baseball players who take Ephedra than any
>other drug out there. It certainly gives you that "pick me up"
>or "kick in the ass". Ephedra is really just like a form of
>legalized speed, although it does serve other purposes.
>
>Baseball HAS TO MAKE CLEAR what is legal & what is illegal!



[redsoxchick from Boston/MA]
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