Comments on: Jose Reyes meets with FBI investigators

By: free background check

free background check — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:22:22 +0000

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By: onesweetworld

onesweetworld — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:20:16 +0000

December called, they want their story back…

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:37:59 +0000

Not exactly – the Palmiero Defense unfolds over a longer sequence of moves. But it’s in the same…er…ballpark.

By: jwb

jwb — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:00:24 +0000

Oddly enough, C.J. Nitkowski (remember him?)is undergoing the same treatment and blogged about earlier this week. http://www.cjbaseball.com/2009Blog/20100226.htm

By: Rays fan

Rays fan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:38:30 +0000

You mean the Palmeiro defense?

By: GimmeSomeSteel

GimmeSomeSteel — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:28:44 +0000

There’s no doubt that Reyes did this to attempt to get back on the field. Obviously, it wasn’t performance enhancing, as he never did get back.
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You can’t blame him for not necessarily sticking to the game plan the Mets medicos and trainers laid out. After all, their record isn’t exactly great–uh, good–uh, fair–uh, adequate. OTOH, it’s typically Mets that even the player’s own Plan B didn’t work.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:04:20 +0000

Or at least the bridge to it.
In any case this not knowing what I was really doing gambit, otherwise known in chess circles as the Duh-uhhhh or Myshkin defense, is really getting kind of old, don’t you think?

By: Rays fan

Rays fan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:49:41 +0000

I think Mr Reyes is trying to sell us some land east of Dominica.

By: Rays fan

Rays fan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:47:34 +0000

The point of blood doping is to increase to oxygen carrying capacity of the blood–increase the number of circulating red blood cells. Blood spinning does not utilized the blood cells; it’s use is utilize the growth factors in the plasma. Both use blood products but with a different intent and different techniques.

By: Rays fan

Rays fan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:42:16 +0000

Charles GATES--You can read about it at: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7375-rapid-healing-trick-falls-foul-of-antidoping-rules.html or http://www.healthcentral.com/osteoarthritis/c/831508/101274/spinning Basically, some blood is drawn, spun in a centrifuge for a few minutes to separate plasma from the blood cells. The plasma is injected into the site of an injury to speed healing. There is controversy over whether this is performance enhancing or not. WADA considers it as cneating, although special permission can be had if the athlete is going to be not competing for some time even after treatment. It's intended medical benefit is to speed healing to do a high concentration of natural growth factors. The cheating aspect would be to try to use it to increase exercise tolerance and promote muscle growth.

By: jwb

jwb — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:24:35 +0000

Sounds a lot like blood doping to me. Here's an overview: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2004/sep/22/cycling.cycling

By: RobRob

RobRob — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:05:22 +0000

Um… Isn’t that blood doping?

By: Charles Gates

Charles Gates — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:05:12 +0000

Anyone with a medical background know what blood spinning is? Or how it helps?