he stopped getting them shipped in 2005. guess when his numbers started dropping?

The NFL is rife with steroids and the issue has been largely ignored. It's been a joke. It is only recently that the NFL has mandated suspensions and more testing. The first offense it four games, which is substantial.

I'm not sure what drugs are screened for, but with the celebration of increased size and speed (along with more vicious hits), I've always wondered if football is serious about this drug enforcement. It's really only this year we'll start to find out.

I think it makes Jay Gibbons look like he's not too bright to not have had some type of go between (a la Bonds).

With the current finger pointing at Ankiel and Glaus, do you say "I think the Cardinals and Angels or Blue Jays now have a tarnished reputation"? Have the Yankees been tarnished due to Giambi and Sheffield? I don't think so. This is a personal issue and it just tells me some players aren't as careful as others.

The O's tarnished image is due to years of ineptitude.

I don't think anyone believes that PEDs significantly raise one's ability. They help an athlete recover and gain a bit of strength, which are advantages. That being said, it now seems Jay Gibbons got his contract while playing juiced up. If he had been this bad before sans PEDs, perhaps even the Orioles FO would not have given the contract. Regardless of the juice or not, the contract was stupid, but it sure makes it sting a bit more to know what was (most likely) going on.

Hey, please don't throw Miguel Tejada's name in there like he's ever been anything more than accused by Jason Grimsley (later retracted) and a bunch of idle speculation by people with hard-ons to find PED users. Palmeiro shamefully tested positive, Grimsley admitted all his wrongdoings, and Gibbons has been officially linked in a real investigation. Roberts has been as "linked" as Tejada has.

This doesn't make it more difficult at all.

 The whole "everyone's doing it" argument is crap. Everyone is not doing it. A bunch of guys are? Fine. They're cheaters. You cheat? You're one of them. The fact that there are a lot of cheaters doesn't make any individual cheater less culpable for his actions. So I'll vent my anger at Bonds all I want, thank you very much. And if by "self-righteous", you mean "in possession of some morals/ethics" as opposed to "don't give a shit and will happily cheat to get wealthy" then yeah, color me guilty.

"more and more difficult to express shock and vent self-righteous anger at Barry Bonds."

I don't know if it's self-righteous because every player who tests positive receives a lot of slack.  Bonds receives a lot more attention and hate because he's breaking hallowed records.  If Gibbons or Glaus were sitting on 68 homers now with 19 games to go, there will be a huge media uproar about these reports and the level of scorn placed upon the players would rise quite a bit.  But Gibbons is a nobody.  Glaus is a high profile name but not elite status like Bonds, A-Rod, Pujols.  Look what happened to Palmiero.  Plus Barry is a jerk.  So some of the anger stems from that.  

if he "accidentally" got caught in a trash compactor. but that's just me.

A newspaper report probably isn't enougth but if the O's can get their hands on the same pieces of evidence as the SI, they may be in business.  

But I am pretty sure we all hate Gibbons

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