SF Giants star Melky Cabrera caught using testerone and suspended 50 games- he admits he took a banned substance. Are modern athletes stupid or what?
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2012/08/15 19:56:36
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The SF Giants' star player Melky Cabrera was suspended for 50 games after he tested positive for testerone. In a statement, the "Milkman" hero to bay Area kids this year, said "“My positive test was the result of my use of a substance I should not have used,” Cabrera said in a statement released by the Major League Baseball Players Association. “I accept my suspension under the Joint Drug Program and I will try to move on with my life"
Cabrera, 27, the most valuable player of the 2012 All-Star Game, is hitting .346, the second highest average in the National League, with 11 home runs and 60 runs batted in, for a Giants team that was tied with the Dodgers for first place in the National League West entering Wednesday’s games. He has the most hits in the major leagues with 159. he earned $6 million this year and was earlier negotiating for a contract extension but that abruptly ended last week- we now jnow why
What a moron. We now know why he played so well.
Cabrera, 27, the most valuable player of the 2012 All-Star Game, is hitting .346, the second highest average in the National League, with 11 home runs and 60 runs batted in, for a Giants team that was tied with the Dodgers for first place in the National League West entering Wednesday’s games. He has the most hits in the major leagues with 159. he earned $6 million this year and was earlier negotiating for a contract extension but that abruptly ended last week- we now jnow why
What a moron. We now know why he played so well.
One of the things I think we should take a look at is outdated misconceptions about PED use and its effects. When you see something like this, when you see PED use or steroid use whats the first thing that comes to mind? Let me help, power hitting. We're use to the idea that players use these things as a mean to "power up". At first it was hitters, but thanks to Pettite and moreso Roger Clemens the thought eventually included pitchers. We get visions in our heads of people crushing massive homeruns or throwing incredibly hard strikes.
Now look at Melkys numbers - .346 with 11 home runs. Thats not a power line. Thats a high average line.
When Mark McGwire famously admitted using steroids a couple years back he indicated that he used them as a means to recover, to get on the field more and to stay there. 163 game sched wears everyone down. And because of this performance isn't consistent, machine like. You have good days and bad and good weeks and bad. But if you take something that helps you recover faster, keeps you focused, then you get that consistency.
McGwire got raked over the coals for that idea. People said he admitted but not correctly because...
One of the things I think we should take a look at is outdated misconceptions about PED use and its effects. When you see something like this, when you see PED use or steroid use whats the first thing that comes to mind? Let me help, power hitting. We're use to the idea that players use these things as a mean to "power up". At first it was hitters, but thanks to Pettite and moreso Roger Clemens the thought eventually included pitchers. We get visions in our heads of people crushing massive homeruns or throwing incredibly hard strikes.
Now look at Melkys numbers - .346 with 11 home runs. Thats not a power line. Thats a high average line.
When Mark McGwire famously admitted using steroids a couple years back he indicated that he used them as a means to recover, to get on the field more and to stay there. 163 game sched wears everyone down. And because of this performance isn't consistent, machine like. You have good days and bad and good weeks and bad. But if you take something that helps you recover faster, keeps you focused, then you get that consistency.
McGwire got raked over the coals for that idea. People said he admitted but not correctly because he didn't admit that he did it in order to actually hit home runs.
Thing is, I think McGwire was right and we should have listened. PEDs aren't about hitting homeruns and getting mph on a fastball, its about recovery which has always been the biggest issue in the sport. Its about staying on the field and trying to consistently do what you are able to do. And this has been an issue throughout the history of the sport. Before roids it was stimulants like greenies. Again, look at Melkys numbers and I want to ask something, whats up with 3 perfect games and 2 no-nos this year from pitchers? Starting pitchers are one of the toughest groups so far as recovery goes. In the past few years we've seen an abundance of stellar pitching performances. Is this evidence of pitchers using and recovering easier?
My point in all this is that we shouldn't be worried about numbers. You don't inject something in your ass one day and start hitting 400 foot bombs and striking out 10 guys the next. What people did on the field was what people could do on the field. The only difference was that they stayed on the field longer - which is a health and recovery issue.
Which leads to why we should have an issue with PEDs - not 73 home run season, but the health of players. The reason these substances aren't allowed is because they aren't healthy, they hurt the athletes. If they were healthy then they'd be legal and this would be moot, PEDs would be an advanced form of something like gatorade thats designed to help athletes recover faster. So health is the key issue which means that to care about it at all you need to care about players themselves. If thats the case then we should foster an environment where people can come forward to talk about what they used and why and how it affected them, instead of persecuting them.
So stop worrying about the HOF and stats and start worrying about the players. ONe thing I'll give Melky is that he was honest about it. Contrast that with Braun over the offseason. He stuck to the usual deny deny deny, going so far as to attack the credibility of a tester as a scapegoat.