MESO-Rx Exclusive Howard Bryant and Steroid Hysteria at Its Finest

[Millard]

Steroid hysteria is presented at its finest in ESPN Columnist Howard Bryants book on the anabolic steroids in baseball scandal entitled Juicing the Game. Howard Bryant is an extremely talented writer with an unparalleled understanding and knowledge of the history of major league baseball. Unfortunately, his outstanding expertise in baseball history is countered by a surprisingly uninformed knowledge of steroids

Howard Bryant and Steroid Hysteria at Its Finest - MESO-Rx

Steroid hysteria is presented at its finest in ESPN Columnist Howard Bryant's book on the anabolic steroids in baseball scandal entitled "Juicing the

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[Conciliator]

Wow. That quote from Bryant you provided demonstrates gross ignorance. It's regrettable that unfounded nonsense like that gets published.

 

[Millard]

Wow. That quote from Bryant you provided demonstrates gross ignorance. It's regrettable that unfounded nonsense like that gets published.

It's amazing how people can be so knowledgeable and insightful about one thing (baseball) but disturbingly ignorant about another (steroids).

 

[Rocky V.]

Yup, another moralist band-wagon jumper. It's still evidently p/c to publicly trash steroids.

 

[rrcat]

What quote are you talking about exactly? All he says is that anti-steroid people will make up anything to the public so that steroids have a terrible name. Please provide the uninformed quote by Bryant.

 

[rrcat]

OK, read the article again, makes more sense.

 

[Millard]

What quote are you talking about exactly? All he says is that anti-steroid people will make up anything to the public so that steroids have a terrible name. Please provide the uninformed quote by Bryant.

Here's the Howard Bryant quote from his book:

"Despite the disagreement, virtually all doctors, Crusaders or not, could agree that anabolic steroids were lethal to the human system. They were certain that some of the more powerful steroids, such as Deca-durabolin, Winstrol, and stanozolol, were major threats to the heart, the liver, and the kidneys. Deca-durabolin, for example, was a particularly nasty steroid that had been in use among weightlifters since the 1960s. Users of the powerful yet lethal drug were highly susceptible to kidney malfunction and liver and pituitary tumors. To Robert Cantu, the noted Boston neurosurgeon who specialized in catastrophic sports injury, athletes were involved in a high-stakes poker game, in which the odds were against them and the risks were chilling. While most people knew that steroids could cause sterility, Cantu believed it to be less known that the drugs could affect the reproductive systems of a users children and grandchildren. That athletes were now willing to risk the future health of their unborn children for a big payday raised the stakes even further. "

Emphasis added by me.

 

[rrcat]

The few times I have seen Bryant on fisrt take ( I think thats the espn mourning show) I thought he did a good job. His quote on that AAS are lethal to the human system is a bit overblown. Probally way overblown. He probally thinks alcohol and cigarattes are health beneficial.