AL Notes: Twins, Cruz, Astros, Reddick, Rays, Indians

Agree and disagree, if anything he gets more of a break imo. I remember all those things by year, didn’t remember the year nelly got busted.

Remember, you don’t have to take clean cut steroids like palmeiro and his winny -v(real dumb move). Winstrol or winny v, common street names for stanzolol, also dries the joints out for most users and thereby has a negative effect on the joints and ligaments. Only reason people use it is because it’s mild effects for muscle growth(you can gain strength without too much size most times, therefore slide under the radar a little better than something that you’d blow up like a cow on). Probably a much shorter detection time on oral winny vs taking testosterone as well. Test can remain in your body up to 9 months if you take a long acting ester(cypionate / deconate ) Remember, steroids aren’t something you shoot in your rear ended and wake up looking like the hulk the next day. I can promise you, line up 3 men and give them the same drug and same dose and you will get three different results every time. I literally mean every time. It’s genetics, your base level of muscle and how your body responds to the juice. If it wasn’t anyone could take 2,000 mg test a week and be a pro bodybuilder. My example is Brady Anderson. Hits in the teens, then 20, then 50, then back to 20. It’s clear he benefited the most but why? His genetics, he always was lean and had a good solid build. Never was a big guy, but had a good dense base of muscle, he always buffed out but once he took the sauce he looked like a statue. So you can go from Calvin Klein model to statue of Greek god in a few months of training and gear with good genetics, yes, that is true. Still need to work your butt off unless your that gifted genetically. However, you cannot look like big papi and become a statue just from taking a few months of gear. Look at bartolo, here’s a guy who took it and looked like he just came outta McDonald’s(probably still does). So you can see, if you are overweight steroids don’t give you some miracle. They may help your performance some I won’t deny that, but they don’t produce a statue. To be a statue you already have to be in shape and have a good base, without the base you are nothing. I’m not advocating it, so if anything this is part defense and part argument to your post. In defense, Nelson was already a good hitter. He also has good genetics or he wouldn’t be playing at 40, juice or no juice.

So imo not saying he’s still on, but not sure how you can rule it out knowing all that. He’s 40 hitting 40 still, With a 300 avg. Some guys had taken undetectable drugs or drugs like growth that would require a blood test. So please don’t act like you can’t easily bypass the testing, That’s my only knock. Even an idiot from Baltimore like me could beat a test. Ask around on here, I’m just “a regular moron”.