Let me state this clearly for anyone reading this drop…
Ken Griffey Jr. is my favorite all-time player. He was my generation’s G.O.A.T. Honestly, Barry Bonds was my generation’s G.O.A.T., but I could never get close to Bonds. He played in the National League throughout his whole career and I could never get Bonds to sign shit for me. Back in the days I used to troll the press gate at the OG Shea Stadium because that is where the visiting team would enter the ballpark. Even before Barry Bonds had become the single season home run champ he was hard to touch.
I don’t favor Griffey Jr. over Bonds because I couldn’t get Bonds to autograph some shit for me. I fuxed with Griffey because his style was so much fresher than anyone else in the game. His swing was so gorgeous and elliptical. Most big hitters yanked the baseball after making contact with it while Griffey Jr. just seemed to let the ball go in any direction but always on a line. The only thing better than watching Griffey bat was watching him play centerfield. He made some of the most incredible catches I had ever seen. As a routine…
Now here comes the tough part. I think that Griffey Jr. tried to use steroids but his body rejected them and this is what caused his debilitating injuries. I feel like Griffey learned about steroids while with the Mariners. There are several Mariners players I’m sure were users who prA’li influenced Griffey.
Bret Boone, Jay Buhner, Edgar Martinez and Vince Coleman are all players I suspect of using HGH or steroids during their playing careers. They were all lean players who ballooned into bulky hulks during the 1990s. I don’t want this to become a scary witchhunt for which players may have used steroids in the days before baseball had outlawed these drugs and treatments. These players also knew of the risks that were inherent in receiving these treatments but just like the NFL stands for ‘Not For Long’ and those players willingly accept the negative side effects of steroids so did the baseball players.
The potential from steroids was something that trumped jaundice, prostate cancer and even bone density decomposition. The potential from steroids use appeared to be immortality. A chance at the Hall of Fame is what allows players to retire comfortably. For fifteen years that the the top tier pros remain in their sport some have twice that amount of time selling their signatures as Hall of Fame players. I love baseball and I don’t hold a grudge against any of these players for sipping the ambrosia of immortality. Maybe Barry Bonds will let me get his autograph one of these days.
I would be shocked if Jr used. In fact he and Jeter would be the two guys that would even make me catch outrage off of roiding. He was wonderful in his 20s and hurt a lot in his 30s, that’s how it’s supposed to go for athletes. I love Jr. too cause he was the first hip-hop baseball player(hat backwards, etc). He made it cool for a teenager in the 90s to love baseball.
could be……………outside of grant hill………can’t think of a star player who has been as snake bitten as griffey jr.
Lots of missed pauses there, professor!
I’ve always favored the pitchers: Randy Johnson, Jim Abot, Orel Herscheiser, Fernando Valenzula, etc. It was just something about the ability to make that little ball do magic tricks @ will that I thought was the shit.
What made me notice Griffey Jr as a kid, more than his incredible skill was that dolphin over-bite. My cousin has one just like it, & I used to say she was him in drag.
Really though, he was something to watch on the field, I agree. When he would catch the ball, or hit it for that matter, he had a look on his face like, “psshhhh, nigga please…”
You so crazy… I say if Jeter or Griffey ever get caught w/ this junk I’m packin up my things and bouncing to a country w/ an affinity for a different sport…
not a big baseball fan but why did it seem like every time Griffey Jr. got injured……he was rounding the bases and then it looked like he caught 2 in the back from a sniper?
he would literally be running at top speed and the hamstring pull would ground him like he was a prisoner running for the gate who just got hit by the guard at the tower with the rifle…
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Speaking of roids….and he’s never been linked to them directly…but has ANYONE ever….EVEr…EVER see a man bulk up the way Daryl Strawberry did over the years…?
look at a photo of him his rookie year and the latter day playing days pics …
dude went from shawn bradley/snoop dogg size to being diesel ….
and he battled drugs AND cancer….
There are 2 names I haven’t seen on the recent list, but were on the original list, Jeter & Griffey. I think Jr saw dudes getting their girth on (II) and tried too much in the weight room. And he went to Cincinnati. Not known for the best trainers in the world ya know?
Should’ve signed with NY.
Anyway, I’ve seen this list for 3 years it’s pretty much the same:
musclesportmag.com/2009/07/01/
unconfirmed-baseball-steroid-list-reveals-104-names/
jose canseco should do a remake of ‘”know the ledge”
sip the juice………..i got enough to go around
Get,
Straw WAS juicing. Believe that. He threw away his career by abusing drugs and alcohol and then he went in hardbody with the HGH. Shit wiped out his scalp immediately but he was brawlick and came back for a few years.
$yk,
Thx for that list. No Brady Anderson? Hmmm.
See how many of those players have stayed injured for the better part of this decade? Steroids isn’t for every top tier athlete. Some bodies reject that shit.
Naw no “Shady” Brady. He caught the one day sale deal.
But like me, you can see that list has many players suffering from steroid related injuries. And like I said earlier, Jeter & Griffey were on one of the earlier lists, but I couldn’t see Jeter. He still has a 24 yr old body, same neck size and son actually got better this past season.
I co-sign that steroids won’t make everyone hit a 1000 HRs. Bonds was taking that Super Skrull sh*t though.
Bonds was retarded faithful to the regimen but the second he got off the juice his body cracked in half.
Just watched Canseco PWN McGwire on ESPN. LOL
ken caminiti’s book says that around 75% of all players were doing steroids by the late 90’s. that means you could have a list of all the guys who hit more than 40 hr’s, and almost all of them would have done steroids. it’s a shame. i have no sympathy for mcgwire tho, crying and shit, as if you could have your cake and eat it too. that’s one thing i kinda respect bonds for is that, like 50, he knows his role as a villian, so he does what he needs to get paid and understands his role. but you get mcgwire trying to get sympathy for cheating and shit, gtfoh, ur a cheater don’t cry for me.
That last shot is incredible. That’s the image MJ had in his dreams when he went and dropped the Bulls/Association for a spot with the WSox….
I grew up looking up to the Bash Brothers & collecting Fleer & Upperdeck cards. I saw Canseco playing for Newark Bears couple of years ago. sad shit. Griffey was on some next level tho. Don’t believe he used but won’t be shocked if it’s true. I’m betting a large majority of players used or at least tried the juice.
It was amazing when Cecil Fielder hit 50 and then in mid90s cats were hitting 50+ hrs like it was nothing?! c’monson.
The body doesnt reject steroids
Steroid affect the muscle[||] and its ability to heal and recover, not the connective tissue(which gets very little in terms of blood flow and nutrients(and roids)). Most of the injuries are connective tissue injuries.
The muscle of an injured steroid user is just too strong for the tendons/ligaments that hold them.
“The body doesnt reject steroids”
You don’t actually understand steroids my friend. They are artificial hormones that alter the body’s normal functions. One by-product is increased muscle mass. Another by-product can be rejection by the liver.
“Most of the injuries are connective tissue injuries. “
Maybe, in ATHLETES. That isn’t where the problem of steroids exists tho’ is it? Its the regular people who don’t have athlete DNA that get all fucked the fuck up and their bodies get slammed against a metabolic brick wall. The long term effects of steroids in athletes are internal organ tumors and heart attacks.
I would say that is the body rejecting the steroids, but what do I know since I dropped out of high school?
Prolly in the minority here but i dont consider steroid users as cheaters. By definition, cheating means to break the rules. MLB had no rules regarding steroids. So who really “cheated” the sport?
^^^ Good thought Rob.
You are correct. Like dP said, it was when that youngsta caught a bad fix is when there was an outrage because of it. There were performance enhancements in every sport.
We watch Ray Lewis perform on steroids every week and no one says a word. Steroids have always been a part of sports, always have been prescribed after major surgeries. They gave me a potent prescription of steroids when I broke my neck.
As usual we pick and choose our battles.
@getthesenets straw was sniffing coke like madman so he had to do something with that extra time i guess working out hahahaha. if he was juicing it’s like who cares he was doign everything.
also your body can reject roids what you think them shits are natural. if you taking testosterone that is different but you still have to cycle it or you will throw your body out of wack. anything you put into your body that is not a vitamin can fuck you up. even taking to much of certain vitamins can fuck you up. “The body doesnt reject steroids” so funny sometimes the body even attacks itself ever heard of crohn’s disease
Rob,
That has always been my message here. If I guy suffers from migraines and takes Advil to help him focus then isn’t Advil a performance enhancer as well? It is. The steroids outrage is bullshit.
Rob,
For the future, on DP.com the replacement for ‘probably’ is ‘prA’li’. Please respect that movement that other readers have put their money on.
@ don and rob but it creates unfair advantages for those who don’t take them. yeah some people who take roids still suck at what they do. the reason roids are a recovery tool as you stated but when you using them when you are not hurt you are abusing them. like when McGwire started getting big he was saying it was the creatine. yeah creatine can help you recover faster and get more out your workouts but no way was he just on that. i know i was on creatine myself stuff works but go off if slowly or you body gets mushy. wow don you broke your neck how that happened homie?
doesn’t the idea that pitchers were juicing too even out the score?
in terms of stats and records?
My brother hinted at this right before the Barry sh*t started.
I wouldn’t cosign his assumptions for either. Outside of Andre Dawson and Ricky, I rolled with The Kid. He used to murder the southsiders.
Still my favourite player evar!