If there isn’t a game/race/match on TV to watch. I’m not watching TV.

If he just gained 100 pounds I could see that happening naturually with a good fitness regimine. I wrestled at a flabby 170 when I was 14, and wrestled at a solid 260 when I was 18. To be clear that was not all “muscle”.

If it was 100 lb of “muscle” most likely he was using “something” But it could have been OTC.

But, I agree with the general premise that society and the media are wholly un-informed when it comes to these issues.

There’s a huge double-standard in how muscle growth is perceived by much of the mainstream media and many fans when it happens in baseball vs. football.

Either ANYONE gaining 100 pounds in a few years should raise your suspicion, or muscle increase shouldn’t ever be enough to raise your suspicion.

Personally, I don’t find Matthews’ growth that hard to believe. I’m sure he’s eaten a ton, taken a lot of legal supplements, and worked his ass off. There’s no reason the same can’t be true for numbers of baseball players who’ve been tainted by slander.

…then the Brewers would be in the Super Bowl?

/sigh

Just because Joe Blow can’t hold a training regimine and diet required to maximize their body’s growth, doesn’t mean someone else can’t. Look at those P90X commercials. You see guys blow up in 90 days. Sure, results aren’t typical, but you have to admit that with proper training you can get pretty ripped without the juice.

The difference between the two sports really is summed up by Carlin’s iconic bit. And it becomes even more pronounced now, 30-40 years later or whatever it is. Football is violent, reckless, powerful – look at what’s happening today to Cutler. Dude tears a knee ligament, and everyone who views it from afar is calling him a wuss. It’s a sport that is only about ignorance and violence, and yet pretends (based on BS playbooks and such) to be cerebral – no, it’s not, it’s a bunch of chemicalled-upped dudes running at each other to injure each other for about 12 minutes over a 4 hour stretch. Everything covered in the media between the two is hypocritical. For example, baseball games are too long, but NFL games are fine? Please. There’s more action in one inning. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. It would be interesting for an entire book or sociological study, to determine this hypocritical stance, where it developed over the last 20-30 years, why, etc.

Anyone who thinks these football players are the size they are and as fast as they are without the same type of enhancements that people like Jeff Bagwell are accused of using is ridiculous. Now, what is natural? Who knows, who cares. Anyone who read the story / knows about the velvet deer antler stuff knows, we are now into the twilight zone – naturally occurring substances can be “enhancers.” Well, duh, that’s why Jack LaLanne and the guy from Beauty and the Beast ate a dozen eggs and rare beef. Protein is good. Similarly, HgH is good.

It’s just a weird thing that American fans/media talk about football players and baseball players and the stuff they do to help them perform differently.