@ raysfan1: politicians don’t “make any more money” from lobbyists either. I meant it to mean more “perks” if you will. And that is not all that different to any other kind of business, just the money is greater. I would guess that most of the athletes go to private practice doctors and not someone working for Humana or Kaiser, as well. So, to your point: if 25% will be private practice and 2% are open minded then you have a few that can be found to put an athlete in touch with the right contacts if not prescribe HGH for a “diagnosed” condition.

I’m certainly not saying most doctor’s handle their business in a shady gray area. What I am saying, is that there are some that are willing to “bend” the rules a bit. While not completely illegal, may lean to the slightly unethical. Add to that the money that an athlete is willing to shell out and I’m sure there’s a middleman w/access to whatever is wanted.

LOL Give it up, he was as guilty as fk.

Ditto to Indaburg’s post.

“Rodriguez appears 16 times in the documents New Times received, the paper said, either as “Alex Rodriguez,” ”Alex Rod” or the nickname “Cacique,” a pre-Columbian Caribbean chief.”

Along with other MLB players names. So unless a bunch of muscle beach guys all decided to pick MLB player nicknames………… Occam’s razor. Seriously guys, we already have players linking their fathers etc. to the clinic (Max Gonzalez for weight loss?) there IS a MLB connection here. We’re starting to wander into un-reasonable doubt.

I agree it must be crazy expensive which makes one think the Yankees would never take it out without expecting to collect on it, but then again the insurance company wouldn’t want that sort of risk if they thought it could be easily collected upon. Normal insurance works on the concept that there’s a large pool paying premiums that don’t ever have claims. I really don’t understand how the business works in a tiny universe of ballplayers where injuries are so commonplace and where every older player is eventually going to have at least semi-plausible arguments that some condition is ending his career.

While I myself use Ron Burgundy.

To your point, I’m amazed that he’s been tried convicted and sentenced without so much as a passing reference to due process. It’s like if you pit the phrase PED and ARod in the same paragraph there is a firestorm of accusations and condemnation. No point in waiting for the facts, .. lets get straight to the execution. But, what if all this is BS as it relates to ARod?

Hey I get it, .. it’s not like he didn’t earn his reputation but there is a certain lynch mob mentality to all this stuff the last couple of days. I think I’ll hold off until something more that wild ass speculation is available.

In the mean time the rest of you HBT folks, Stay Classy.

While I myself use Ron Burgundy.

To your point, I’m amazed that he’s been tried convicted and sentenced without so much as a passing reference to due process. It’s like if you pit the phrase PED and ARod in the same paragraph there is a firestorm of accusations and condemnation. No point in waiting for the facts, .. lets get stright to the execution. But, what if all this is BS as it relates to ARod?

Hey I get it, .. it’s not like he didn’t earn his reputation but there is a certain lynch mob mentality to all this stuff the last couple of days. I think I’ll hold off until something more that wild ass speculation is available.

In the mean time the rest of you HBT folks, Stay Classy.

As for masking a problem… well, for some people, it’s a biochemical disruption that the pills help to callibrate. I’ve witnessed great improvement in some patients that were terribly depressed while taking “happy pills.” It’s true that some studies show that some of these pills are only slightly better than a placebo but without a test to definitively diagnose mental health diseases like depression, it’s something of a guessing game.

I don’t know if this is BS, tired of this PED shite!

@ paperlions: I’m not saying your completely wrong, but doctors get lots of “benefits” by prescribing what they are suggested to prescribe. Has very little to do with “what works v. side effects,” but rather what puts more $$ in their pocket. Not ever doctor and not everytime, but way more than you think.

/end rant