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Rafael Palmeiro tested postive for the steroid stanozolol

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Rafael Palmeiro tested positive for the potent anabolic steroid stanozolol, the same substance Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson of Canada took in 1988, The New York Times reported on its Web site Tuesday night.

Johnson was stripped of a gold medal in 1988 after testing positive for that steroid.

According to a source with direct knowledge of baseball's drug-testing program, Stanozolol, known by its brand name, Winstrol, was detected in the Baltimore Orioles first baseman.

"It's a mildly strong to strong steroid," Dr. Gary Wadler, a professor at New York University and an expert in sports doping, told The New York Times. "Potent is the word I would use."

On Monday, the 40-year-old Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days under the toughened major-league policy that took effect in March. Tuesday, Seattle Mariners pitcher Ryan Franklin was the eighth major-leaguer to be suspended under the new steroids testing.

Palmeiro's suspension came five months after the player appeared before a congressional panel to dramatically deny he had ever used steroids.

While he didn't deny testing positive for the drugs, he insisted Monday that ingesting them was an accident.

"When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth," he said during a telephone conference call. "Today I am telling the truth again that I did not do this intentionally or knowingly."

Without giving specifics, the four-time All-Star left the impression that the banned substance was contained in a supplement that was not prescribed. He said it was an "embarrassing situation" and still did not know what caused the positive test.

"Why would I do this in a year when I went in front of Congress and I testified and I told the truth?" he said. "Why would I do this during a season where I was going to get to 3,000 hits? It just makes no sense. ? I'm not a crazy person."

On July 15, Palmeiro joined Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Eddie Murray as the only players with 3,000 hits and 500 homers.
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Originally posted by: joshsquall
I wish the Orioles would just go out of business. I can't stand this slide towards the sh!tter.
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I don't know what you are talking about...They were like undefeated one day last month...
 
Has anyone noticed how much smaller Sammy Sosa is these days? He looks like a little kid compared to a few years ago. Not proof of course, but highly suggestive to me...
 
Originally posted by: MazerRackham
Has anyone noticed how much smaller Sammy Sosa is these days? He looks like a little kid compared to a few years ago. Not proof of course, but highly suggestive to me...
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He was def. using gear
 
It's an injectable drug. You need a needle to administer it. How the fvck can he expect people to believe he wasn't aware he had it in his body?
 
Originally posted by: Rudee
It's an injectable drug. You need a needle to administer it. How the fvck can he expect people to believe he wasn't aware he had it in his body?
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It's available in pill form as well.
 
Originally posted by: joshsquall
Originally posted by: Rudee
It's an injectable drug. You need a needle to administer it. How the fvck can he expect people to believe he wasn't aware he had it in his body?
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It's available in pill form as well.
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correct... and you can drink injectable winny. It is the only injectable AAS you can drink.
 
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/...6949147.story?coll=ny-sports-headlines
"If it's stanozolol, this was a deliberate act," asserted Gary Wadler, the Manhasset doctor who's one of the world's foremost authorities on steroids.

Stanozolol has a long history in sports. "Stanozolol is a potent anabolic steroid. It's the one that put Ben Johnson on the map, the one that's known as Winstrol," Wadler said. "It comes up as either oral or injectable. The injectable is known as Winstrol-V, which stands for veterinary. It's used in animals."

Stanozolol is a "very serious" steroid, one baseball official said. While another popular steroid, nandrolone, occasionally has been associated with contamination -- about 500 cases in the past five years, according to Wadler -- stanozolol has not. Stanozolol has a reputation among bodybuilders as a steriod that gives you strength, but not necessarily size.
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yeah i cant believe he is still saying he didnt do it...didnt he learn anything from Pete Rose? People forgive a lot easier when someone is genuinely sorry and admits mistakes

we are all human and all make mistakes, but when you deny something even when it is proven you did it, thats what people cant forgive...and it doesnt help to wait 10+ years until you are ready to release a book
 
And yet his buddy, and boss when Jose first dosed him, Mr. President Bush still stands by his man. His lying, cheating, stealing money from multiple owners with his fake accomplishments buddy.

Anybody still denying that the Pres put this issue on the agenda in the State of the Union as yet another piece of pork for his friends? Seriously, the sitting president bringing into the public eye an issue that his former colleagues couldn't get done in collective bargaining and bringing public pressure against a multi-ethnic union of about 1000 members. Hmmmmm.

Then Congress goes off on a tangent about how these athletes are the reason that kids try 'roids. OK, so who is famous and on Meth? That's a drug that we need to worry about! Seriously, it's too bad the public is so under-informed on these issues that they believe that 'roids are more of a national issue than meth. As a social worker with deliquent youth and child abuse victims, I see drug use and its effects pretty much daily. I have yet to come across a bodybuilder-adult or youth in my work. No 'roid-rage dads, no suicidal beefed up kids. Yes, they are out there, but the perception is that this family of drugs is ruining our youth. It's out there because of baffoons like our political leaders pulling stunts to get their picture in the paper. /rant
 
Originally posted by: superkdogg
Then Congress goes off on a tangent about how these athletes are the reason that kids try 'roids. OK, so who is famous and on Meth? That's a drug that we need to worry about! Seriously, it's too bad the public is so under-informed on these issues that they believe that 'roids are more of a national issue than meth. As a social worker with deliquent youth and child abuse victims, I see drug use and its effects pretty much daily. I have yet to come across a bodybuilder-adult or youth in my work. No 'roid-rage dads, no suicidal beefed up kids. Yes, they are out there, but the perception is that this family of drugs is ruining our youth. It's out there because of baffoons like our political leaders pulling stunts to get their picture in the paper. /rant
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It's a bipartisan effort, and I agree 100%. Steroids are and always were a mere blip on the radar in terms of actually messing people up. They're a very expensive hobby for one thing. And the death and destruction side effects are so blatantly overstated that it frankly discredits the messenger in the eyes of anybody who bothers to do a little bit of research beyond the propaganda, errr, government websites and reports.

But it's a political slamdunk and makes for a lot of grandstanding and airtime opportunities to get your name out there as a staunch defender of our precious (stupid, but precious) youth. Joe Biden knows this game well and has been playing it for 2 decades.
 
Hilarious. I'd really like to see Congress get him for lying under oath...Selig really needs to do something rather than sit back and suspend people for like 10 games for 1st time offenses. It's really ridiculous. Kenny Rogers (guy who pushed over cameraman) got a 20 game suspension or something without much thought at all. I'd say 1st offense needs to be something like 50 games. 2nd offense = full season. 3rd offense = erased from record books. Or something like that...steroids are ruining the game. Maybe it'll take a couple years for these players to start feeling the effects then we'll start seeing guys collapsing in center field due to a heart attack from this stuff.
 
Originally posted by: thegimp03
Hilarious. I'd really like to see Congress get him for lying under oath...Selig really needs to do something rather than sit back and suspend people for like 10 games for 1st time offenses. It's really ridiculous. Kenny Rogers (guy who pushed over cameraman) got a 20 game suspension or something without much thought at all. I'd say 1st offense needs to be something like 50 games. 2nd offense = full season. 3rd offense = erased from record books. Or something like that...steroids are ruining the game. Maybe it'll take a couple years for these players to start feeling the effects then we'll start seeing guys collapsing in center field due to a heart attack from this stuff.
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Well, if Selig did anything on his own initiative, he wouldn't be Selig.
 
Well, if Selig did anything on his own initiative, he wouldn't be Selig.
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Wild card. Division restructuring. Moving the Brewers to the NL (marginal). Got the drug testing started (late, but Fay Vincent and Uberoth didn't do it).

-Selig gets a bad rap because he has the charisma of oatmeal and his next good PR move will be his first, but he's not doing badly all things considered.
 
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