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reflect
HGH is not a PED. MLB needs to stop with its witch hunt and start paying attention to actual science. Drugs that don’t enhance performance don’t need to be banned.
TheMichigan
Hey buddy, you just blow in from ignorance town?
dstuart
You’re just trolling, right?
dstuart
You’re trolling, right?
tylerall5
Pretty sure HGH encourages muscle growth among other things, therefore improving performance.
davidcoonce74
Because guys with lots of muscle are good at baseball.
McGlynnandjuice
He’s not wrong, in studies done on HGH, people with normal levels of it didnt see any changes in muscle growth or performance; though people with low levels or thyroid issues saw fantastic benefits. It is also worth noting that the studies samples were fairly small
TheMichigan
Exactly, any scientific study that has a unreasonable sample (aka a small sample size) should be almost immediately discarded. I mean, unless the case is isolated where there is only a possibility of a small sample size (like creating a new element) most “scientific” studies with small sample sizes are pretty much hogwash. Also, it’s not like there is a small sample size of people who take HGH, so a study like this on a topic so broad and it has a “fairly” small sample size should raise some red flags imo.
It’s like me polling 100 people out of the 90,000 people in my city and asking them who’d they’d vote for mayor, and then actually take that sample seriously.
Basically, HGH is a steroid. And it has been linked to significant muscle growth for most people who take it. And should be banned as a PED under the current drug rules.
TheMichigan
Not a steroid* it’s a growth hormone. Gotta love 6:00 comments.
McGlynnandjuice
I mean it had a small sample size for safety reasons, so you’re not going to get a sample in the thousands. I believe that it’s banned purely for safety reasons, and that the performance effects aren’t really that great, but it should still be banned nonetheless
Ian Shay
It helps you muscles recover or something, giving you an advantage over everyone else so it needs to be banned
Polish Hammer
Neither is blood doping but both are banned in international competition.
greatdaysport
Why is this guy even news. He’s been done for years. There’s more interesting stories out there.
9lives
I felt the same about the Adam Jones story so I did this incredible thing called ‘not reading it’.
bastros88
Quack Quack
BaltimoreMatthew23
How is he coming back after he hasn’t pitched in the majors since 2008 and hasn’t actually been good since 2004?
mikeyank55
Perfect signing opportunity for Sandy Adlerstein. The Mets have two simple requirements which Gagne meets:
Cheap contract
Freak show potential
66TheNumberOfTheBest
I saw him in the WBC. If the plate was two feet more to the right of the catcher, he would have been pretty good.
I imagine not pitching in a decade would leave you a bit rusty, though.
What’s he got to lose? Good for him.
Polish Hammer
He’s pitched in the past decade, in a third rate much not league and struggled there. Why he thinks he can pitch in the majors is jut silly.