Comments on: MLB warns against performance-enhancing ground up deer antlers

By: macjacmccoy

macjacmccoy — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:32:52 +0000

HGH makes your muscles grow thats a fact. Now if they cant prove having bigger muscles helps your performance well then their idiots.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:11:10 +0000

…but players wouldn’t use it if it didn’t have an effect!

/sarcasm

By: spudchukar

spudchukar — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:48:15 +0000

However, shine a bright light in my face and I freeze up like a statue.

By: evanhartford

evanhartford — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:28:45 +0000

Here’s a thought. Instead of allowing players to consistently stay ahead of enforcement ala Deer Antlers and the next big PED, why not simply list out the all the approved supplements, medicines, treatments etc and basically ban EVERYTHING that ain’t on the list. If an athlete “discovers” something that they think should be approved, they can submit it to the league and let them evaluate it and make a decision. If it is discovered that an athlete used something that ain’t on the list, they get nailed.

The SEC does this by banning all “fraud”, including the stuff they conclude is fraud after the fact. Essentially, your only way of being innocent is asking for permission instead of forgiveness. This would definitely make players think twice.

By: ditto65

ditto65 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:11:06 +0000

That thumbs down has to be personal.

For the record, I in no way frown upon or mock people who use salmon eggs for bait. I only mention that I reflect on a childhood memory.

I apologize if I have offended the thumbs downer in the past.

By: Kanonen80

Kanonen80 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:00:10 +0000

Let me guess: all the players involved are Dodgers, and the deer-spray comes at the recommendation of the McCourt’s “healer”?

By: ditto65

ditto65 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:36:30 +0000

I still think of the trout frying the eggs when I see someone using salmon eggs for bait.

By: kingjoe1

kingjoe1 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:12:46 +0000

F PETA, damn things grow back,

By: trevorb06

trevorb06 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:08:53 +0000

Lets see some pics and vids.

By: rollinghighwayblues

rollinghighwayblues — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:06:07 +0000

I took deer velvet for two months starting in March, took 240mg daily and saw no excessive physical change due to the product. Craig’s original deer extract story is what made me do research on it and decide to try it out. I work out four days a week but the deer extract did not enhance my physical appearance or athletic ability whatsoever. I took the most potent form of the product, Southern Cross Velvet was the company name.

By: heyblueyoustink

heyblueyoustink — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:01:13 +0000

witch doctor billy.com

By: trevorb06

trevorb06 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:58:27 +0000

They should do something more productive like pray. That’ll make them play better.
#sarcasm

By: halladaysbiceps

halladaysbiceps — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:56:01 +0000

I just thought of something. Raul Ibanez started hitting like a madman in the month of July, leading all MLB in rbi’s for the month. Was he spraying deer antler spray on his bald head?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:55:49 +0000

If I were the league office, I would be most concerned about the use of powdered rhinoceros horn to improve performance with road strange. The last thing MLB can afford right now is another Steve Garvey.

By: trevorb06

trevorb06 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:55:24 +0000

tusks*
EDIT FUNCTION

By: trevorb06

trevorb06 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:54:11 +0000

We need to keep these guys away from traditional eastern medicines. If not we’ll have rhino horns, elephant tucks and bear bile being shipped to the US at an alarming rate.

By: basiltharat

basiltharat — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:53:30 +0000

Always thought that was one of Avery’s better spot-gag cartoons. He did, of course, have a well-established knack for gags about hunting.

By: halladaysbiceps

halladaysbiceps — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:53:12 +0000

Lol!! Exactly. Who’s passing this on to the players, a witch doctor?

By: heyblueyoustink

heyblueyoustink — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:51:32 +0000

He runs like a gazelle in the outfield……wait, is he really grazing during the 7th inning stretch?

By: dlevalley

dlevalley — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:49:18 +0000

One of my neighbors growing up was a research chemist. His work was basically testing the effects of various animal products.

During high school, he discovered that ground-up deer hooves could cure acne or something like that. I always felt really bad for his daughter, who was a year or two older than me, because I could imagine him trying to get her to test out his deer hoof paste for her acne…

By: halladaysbiceps

halladaysbiceps — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:44:58 +0000

I had not heard about this before today. This is the silliest think I have ever seen. Increased growth by spraying ground up deer? What’s next? Faster speed by ground up cheetah?

By: heyblueyoustink

heyblueyoustink — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:44:41 +0000

Besides, think about how upset John Buck must be at all this. Tsk Tsk you looney major leaguers, think about the families of your comrades!

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:41:06 +0000

It’s that players are taking it — and the league is at least starting to get a bit worried about it — despite the fact that there is no evidence whatsoever that it actually enhances athletic performance in any way

Not sure why this shocks you, try to keep track of the number of athletes who wear those titanium necklaces, power bracelets, etc. If you could convince some athletes they’d play better with their underwear on their head, Hanes stock would go through the roof.