Comments on: Placido Polanco “had a series of injections to relieve pain” http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/22/placido-polanco-had-a-series-of-injections-to-relieve-pain/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:43:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bleedgreen http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/22/placido-polanco-had-a-series-of-injections-to-relieve-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-167364 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:21:15 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73217#comment-167364 Isn’t Advil ‘performance enhancing’? If you have a massive headache and your legs are sore, you can’t run as well or concentrate at the plate. Pop 2 Advil, headache goes away, leg soreness goes away… so you can run and hit. So you’re … enhancing your performance with drugs… no?

]]> By: The Common Man http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/22/placido-polanco-had-a-series-of-injections-to-relieve-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-167260 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:40:41 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73217#comment-167260 Well, I’m conflicted about PEDs (I enjoyed the ’90s and early ’00s, but then didn’t we all), so I’m not actually trying to make them sound better than they are. I’m just interested in the question. But you’re right that no one has raised the stem cells = PEDs argument here, to the best of my knowledge. Sorry for the distraction.

]]> By: Jonny 5 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/22/placido-polanco-had-a-series-of-injections-to-relieve-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-167231 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:12:00 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73217#comment-167231 Who’s harshing on Colon for stem cell injections? No one here. Dude, you can’t lump these together with PED’s in an attempt to make other true PED abusers look better. It just doesn’t work that way.

]]> By: Utley's Hair http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/22/placido-polanco-had-a-series-of-injections-to-relieve-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-167219 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:07:06 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73217#comment-167219 Painkillers are designed to improve performance?

]]> By: The Common Man http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/22/placido-polanco-had-a-series-of-injections-to-relieve-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-167214 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:05:33 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73217#comment-167214 Are stem cell injections illegal? I don’t think they are. But there’s no doubt that both treatments are designed to improve performance, right?

]]> By: Chris Fiorentino http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/22/placido-polanco-had-a-series-of-injections-to-relieve-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-167171 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:24:47 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73217#comment-167171 I don’t think he got stem cell injections did he? Or HGH? Or PED? I believe these were simply pain-killing injections. The day that these are illegal is the day that sports as we know them cease to exist.

]]> By: The Common Man http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/22/placido-polanco-had-a-series-of-injections-to-relieve-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-167163 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:18:04 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73217#comment-167163 “had a series of injections”

How is that not performance enhancing? I suppose if they don’t work…but otherwise, how is that different from what Bartolo Colon had done?

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