“ I think we’re going to have to either give up baseball or give up the hypocrisy and the phoniness and pretending that steroids are an evil thing…. They are the march of science and modern life. It’s crazy to imagine that athletes, of all people, are going to refrain from using whatever science makes possible for them to enhance their performance. „
Zev Chafets, author of Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame
06/11/2009
, in 05/28/2009
“ The nationwide war on steroids by two San Francisco BALCO prosecutors and one former IRS agent has always been about personal advancement. These federal officials realized that by targeting a few baseball players and track stars for taking steroids they could make names for themselves. The irony is that thousands of American police officers are major steroid users. Yes, there has been too much ado about steroids. I’ve been writing for years about the subject for Yahoo Sports and Playboy because readers are intrigued. But the deeper story is that steroids are prevalent throughout society. Prosecutors using athletes as scapegoats are simply playing the celebrity gristmill. „
Jonathan Littman commenting on Freakonomics blog article
10/24/2008
“ Jose Canseco discusses the health benefits of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
Yes, you heard me right: Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier. Certain steroids, used in proper combinations, can cure certain diseases. Steroids will give you a better quality of life and also drastically slow down the aging process.
If people learn how to use steroids and growth hormone properly, especially as they get older - sixty, seventy, eighty years old - their way of living will change completely. If you start young enough, when you are in your twenties, thirties, and forties, and use steroids properly, you can probably slow the aging process by fifteen or twenty years. I’m forty years old, but I look much younger - and I can still do everything the way I could when I was twenty-five.
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