Not real sure about your question, mate, as I've not really followed Major League Baseball. I enjoy watching competition come Olympics, but that's about it.

On a side issue, though, do you reckon those steroids would impact favourably on hand injuries? One of my sons played competitive baseball up until he was 15 (it's played pretty much as a Winter Sport regionally in Australia) and by that time hed broken just about every bone and dislocated just about every joint in both hands!

Being a tad concerned about this, I had some serious discussion, and was told that injuries of this kind and extent are pretty common amongst baseballers.

At 15, he swapped over to Football (the real, bone-crushing 'Aussie Rules' kind) and I was pretty glad about that.

I reckon it was a 'safer' pursuit!

If you use steroids while playing baseball, what good do you get from it? well, probably aside from the fact that you almost never get tired, will you be hitting better? probably running faster... but aside from all of these, what benefits do you get from it? Never played the game though, all we do here is play basketball...

Oh wow!


I'd not realised that in this day and age steroid use could be so prevalent in any major competitive sport. [url="http://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/20010504sixfourthree.html"]]If comments like these are any indication of the situation there then it's an absolutely unforgivable scenario. Yes, oalee, steroid use gives you an 'edge', increasing your abilities artificially. Good grief, it doesn't matter what the professional sporting competition is, over here in Australia if you get sprung with too much cough medicine in your system you've probably just blown your career!

Damn eh! Just what is the situation there at present, WEATHER CHANNEL? Most of the articles I found were a year or two old.

Its not "the Yankees", its "baseball" ... no need to attack the Yankees on such a general issue, really.

it probably enhances your stamina, but will you hit better? it increases stamina and strength but will it increase accuracy? let's take basketball for example, if a basketball player took steroids he'll be stronger and faster. but will he be shooting better?

I was just wondering...

Oh my! That's trying to reduce life to simple 'either/or' situations, isn't it?

Performance enhancing drugs aren't something which will magically transform a 'dud' into a 'superstar', but by enhancing strength, stamina and so on, but they will generate a better 'base' to work with. Practice is still necessary, inherent skill is still necessary, but if you gain an unfair 'edge' as a side-effect of having used such substances, then yes! Taking them has increased those factors, even if only indirectly.

what are the side-effects of steroids anyway? I'm totally ignorant of the actual side-effects that these performance enhancing drugs produce...

A google search would turn up discussion papers, but at a quick glance, you'd have to put increased aggressive behaviour and impotence at the top of the list. Perhaps the two are linked?

Lol