Comments on: Is Josh Hamilton losing weight a sign of … something?

By: txnative61

txnative61 — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:45:52 +0000

I think it is a sign that Pearlman is desperate for something to write about, an affliction that Calcaterra shares. There is job security in raising arguments impossible to resolve.

By: hooockey

hooockey — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:22:11 +0000

How is it some miracle for a 240 pound man to lose 20 pounds? Losing weight is not difficult. Change diet, alter exercise routine.

I recently lost 15 pounds in 1 month. I had the flu, followed by food poisoning.

I did not just stop taking steroids.

By: mazblast

mazblast — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:54:23 +0000

If a writer is one-dimensional, delusional, or obsessive enough, he/she/it will find any variation in any aspect of an athlete’s physique to be PED-based. Up, down, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, four-dimensional, circular, doesn’t matter–”I think he’s on PEDs therefore he’s on PEDs.”

Here’s a suggestion, Pearlman–ask the man. He’ll deny using PEDs. Then get some, oh, what do you call it, oh yeah, Craig may remember this term from his lawyer days (a career for which he was far too intelligent)–PROOF.

By: dawglb

dawglb — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:05:29 +0000

I’ll bet it’s a sign of him not weighing as much as he used to. I’m not a doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

By: tonyc920

tonyc920 — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 03:43:31 +0000

Maybe he found a really good Pizza Joint ! lol

By: jkaflagg

jkaflagg — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:58:08 +0000

In the immortal words of Veep’s Selina Meyer: ” Shut your pie hole ! Get up off your deadwood and put down the corn dog…..”

By: indaburg

indaburg — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:01:07 +0000

I finally got around to reading it. I still think his insinuation was unfair.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:49:43 +0000

Pie over Cake. Every day of the week.

By: kevinbnyc

kevinbnyc — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:40:48 +0000

Over the holiday season last year, I gained about 10 lbs. Safe to assume I started doing steroids?

By: makeham98

makeham98 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:30:19 +0000

I have to get my wife off of the PEDs. That must be it.

By: tjg25

tjg25 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:57:52 +0000

The “hard questions”? Hilarious. Certainly he’d answer honestly. Lol.

By: jrobitaille23

jrobitaille23 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:26:00 +0000

In 1990, an article in “The New England Journal of Medicine” reported that healthy people might benefit from receiving synthetic HGH. Researchers found that, in healthy adults, HGH injections increased muscle mass and reduced the amount of body fat.

By: jrobitaille23

jrobitaille23 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:24:47 +0000

why is that?

By: jrobitaille23

jrobitaille23 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:22:09 +0000

http://www.livestrong.com/article/524925-what-does-hgh-do/

all you need to know about HGH. Sadly the two yahoos below couldn’t be more clueless. I have trained with a strong man competitor who was on it. He got massive. Within a month of getting off he lost 20 pounds. With him most was muscle as he stopped lifting heavy. I am sure if he incorporated cardio he would have lost more. Having discussed this with him and seen the results I can first hand attest to what HGH does. I can also google ‘what does hgh do” and find several articles refuting what you are saying. Get a clue

By: stercuilus65

stercuilus65 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:14:07 +0000

“Head size, as if we are able to measure such a thing.”

Are fking serious? Two words..Barry Bonds.

By: yousuxxors

yousuxxors — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:26:51 +0000

he went on a crack binge

By: brianabbe

brianabbe — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:16:36 +0000

Did it ever occur to anyone that 20 pounds in four months is not a stretch? A lot of people can lost that amount of weight in 8-10 weeks. I’ve done it myself. That’s easily achieved with a healthier eating regimen and specific training. I think given Hamilton’s injury history, he might have felt that he might age better without as much weight on his hips, knees, ankles, etc as well. It’s too easy to proclaim he was juicing.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:05:12 +0000

I think we could make a lot of money selling Texans on the HGH Diet. With me?

By: dirtydrew

dirtydrew — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:56:36 +0000

The next Barry Zito contract. The Angel’s will be crushed by a non roided’ Josh Hamelton and an older than we know Albert Pujols.

By: ncm42

ncm42 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:56:17 +0000

For anyone who thinks there is no reason to still be suspicious about PEDs in baseball “because they’re testing now,” I have a rich uncle who is a prince in Nigeria. If you send me your bank account number, I will see to it that he sends you part of his inheritance…

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:55:43 +0000

@jrobitaille23

PL has posted numerous links to scientific articles showing that HGH has zero benefit to normal adults. What evidence do you have that it has any benefit?

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:54:35 +0000

@jrobitaille23
There are at least three statements in your comment that are completely false and destroy your entire narrative. I’ll let you figure out which, as I’m getting sick of reposting the same stuff.

By: abaird2012

abaird2012 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:38:22 +0000

Rabble, rabble.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:35:44 +0000

Actually, I am the one that is not clueless. Feel free to find a single study in which a healthy adult taking HGH alone leads to increased muscle mass or strength. There have been a lot of studies and they all find the same thing…in adults with normal HGH levels, there is no evidence that it builds muscles or increases strength. It is most fucking certainly not called HGH because it builds muscle tissue.

HGH has no known positive effects on otherwise healthy adults with normal GH levels. At least educate yourself on the topic before spouting off.

FWIW, a person also will NOT lose 20 lbs of muscle mass in only a couple of weeks unless they are horribly ill. It takes longer than that for benefits of a steroid cycle to wear off.

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:27:21 +0000

Craig once got a 6 page comment section out of a post about dessert 3 years ago. He’s hardly desperate for “clicks” since the topic of “cake vs pie” has not been exhausted to this day. Given that he could pretty much rehash that whole thing again any time he wanted to, what makes anyone think he’s “desperate for clicks”?

Its been a long offseason, but this isn’t some filler post. Its a nationally known sportswriter engaging in some highly speculative and borderline slanderous opinionating. What should Craig do? Let Pearlman get away with this kind of low rent crapola?

You must be new here if you think he’ll let this kind of thing pass without comment. Its one of the reason he’s so widely read. I expect him to do this stuff and I’d be disappointed in his writing if he didn’t.

By: jrobitaille23

jrobitaille23 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:22:05 +0000

you are the one clueless. you take Human Growth Hormone and it helps grow muscle tissue. Hence the name Growth Hormone. You get off it and your body reverts to its normal production sometimes less for a bit as your body gets used to it. You QUICKLY lose that mass if you stop using, increase cardio and diet. Don’t go spouting off about things you don’t know about. Seriously, your statement is as false as they come and idiots who don’t know better are giving you thumbs up. Man o man. Like I said earlier, if you just signed a huge contract, are known as a power hitter, you think the most logical thing to do is go on a diet and lose 20 pounds. He might hit 32 homers this year. Might!

By: btwicey

btwicey — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:15:37 +0000

What a crock of crap.

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:14:17 +0000

Easy man. Those are facts. Most of the histrionic shouting about PEDs use here aren’t interested in facts. The like a good narrative.

By: DelawarePhilliesFan

DelawarePhilliesFan — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:06:19 +0000

Yes, he so much “didn’t care” that he posted a reply.

I again say read all of the original post, not Craig’s take

By: halohonk

halohonk — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:32:26 +0000

Trout at 240 ? gimmie a break. Is that weight or hits! Here is honks prediction for your 2013 MVP…….. 210 hits 310 avg. 40 hrs 120 rbi 140 runs 50 steals and a gold glove to boot. 21 yrs old amazing. Hes the Lebron James of MLB! All with NO peds.