Comments on: Get used to Bartolo Colon-style stem cell procedures, because they’re going to explode in popularity

By: tadthebad

tadthebad — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:38:29 +0000

Color me ignorant, but aren’t PIDs and stem cell injections similar in that they each represent an advancement in medicine towards repair of one’s body? I don’t consider them equal, but perhaps similar enough in terms of inhancing performance, no?

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:32:18 +0000

Joey The Bat agrees.

By: grizz2202

grizz2202 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:49:05 +0000

I agree. Your comment reminds me of the Star Trek movie (yeah, I know, shaddup) where they go back in time and Bones sees people of our time going into surgery and calls us barbarians. Then he whips out some device and BOOM! Chekov’s cured.

By: scatterbrian

scatterbrian — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:41:31 +0000

Bartolo Colonoscopy

By: royalsfaninfargo

royalsfaninfargo — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:41:56 +0000

I think you raise good points craig. I personally dont know enough (or anything for that matter) about this kind of procedure to be for or against. One interesting thing to note is whether MLB will require players who do this to notify MLB or their respective teams.

By: krhallo

krhallo — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:37:56 +0000

This is absolutely an insane debate. We are questioning whether to allow athletes to heal their own bodies or have a physician cut on them. Insanity.

By: rebarratige

rebarratige — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:20:20 +0000

It ain’t Christian.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:11:28 +0000

The way I see it, this is against God. When folks is all busted up and broken down, they should stay all busted up and broken down. If God wanted us running around on two legs and standing upright, he would have made us bipeds in the first place.

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:09:01 +0000

He’s a witch!! BURN HIM!!!!

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:07:59 +0000

He’s a professional athlete (inset fat joke here everyone). Let’s not forget that he was a damned good pitcher not that long ago, who generally gained velocity late in games. It seems very Fountainhead to me that anyone who is better than ‘slightly-above-average’ is now subject to witch-hunting reporters/bloggers/commentors.

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:04:19 +0000

Isn’t injecting yourself with your own oxygen rich blood considered a banned procedure in the Olympics?

By: Alex K

Alex K — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:01:36 +0000

People who jump on Bartolo Colon probably bounce really high.

By: rexryanisablowhard

rexryanisablowhard — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:59:01 +0000

Advances in medicine will have impacts on sports, and now that the applications of stem cell therapy are moving from labratory to real life application, there is no telling the impacts. Heck, if Sandy Koufax had the Tommy John surgery option, he might have pitched another 5 plus seasons. Same with guys like Gale Sayers and Billy Simms who had their pro careers shortened by knee injuries, or even Mickey Mantle. Today they are back in less than year after ACL surgery. If this is a true medical breakthrough in the sense that it has a legit application in modern sports, then the Bartolo Colon surgery will be commonplace within 2-3 years.

By: Brian Murphy

Brian Murphy — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:58:10 +0000

If we can’t use cells out of our own bodies on ourselves to become better physical beings, why do we exist?

By: jamie54

jamie54 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:45:49 +0000

Can I have some of those Einstein brain cells floating around Harvard, Oxford, or wherever they might be preserved? Surely would help me out, lemme tell ya. Medically if these help a ball player or better yet anyone, individual’s rehabbing from an accident, etc., all for it. Betterment of human kind so what’s to argue with?

By: rexryanisablowhard

rexryanisablowhard — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:42:12 +0000

By: wrigleyivy

wrigleyivy — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:40:39 +0000

COME ON! HE’S THROWING 95 IN THE 9TH INNING!

By: bigxrob

bigxrob — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:38:08 +0000

I’m sure the national media would not be at all concerned with the procedure being performed on NFL players

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:35:14 +0000

I still think there is a big difference between legal medical procedures and illegal performance inhancing drugs. Anyone who has competed against other athletes who have used PEDs knows full well that it is cheating, as do the users of the PEDs themselves. The confusion of the ignorant equating stem cell injections versus PEDs is comical though. And I am definitely with you that the stigma of PEDs will disappear over time, I just don’t see how that makes PED use ok – past, present, or future.

By: drmonkeyarmy

drmonkeyarmy — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:30:21 +0000

I don’t know why anybody would have a problem with this. You will probably get a bunch of thumbs downs though….just because.

By: yankeesfanlen

yankeesfanlen — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:28:29 +0000

I think they should do this kind of stuff first on MSM writers so they’ll get smarter and realize that medical procedures are used in many good ways.

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:27:54 +0000

If it isn’t illegal or against the rules of Major League baseball, as illegally-obtained PEDs always were, then it shouldn’t be a problem for anyone. What’s the problem here?

By: chrisdtx

chrisdtx — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:27:39 +0000

I fail to see how Colon’s procedure differs significantly from Tommy John surgery. Replace the word “elbow ligament” with “stem cell” and it seems to be the same deal.