well I am kind of tired of arguing. drugs that enhance the performance of athletes are used everyday. That is my point. If you want to disagree with me fine. But you hear about them being used all the time. Shit they opening talk about Romo getting shot to help him deal with the pain so he can play. They were not talking about injecting him with cotton candy. You say you don't care about the legal ones. I don't either. And I don't care about the illegal ones either.
Being able to fight with roids in your system is illegal now. But roids are just one drug that can be used to gain advantages in the ring. Appetite suppressant, diuretics (coffee), and as I said those focusing drugs like aderall or ridlin. As long as it is ok to use in the sport and have physican's note you are good. Roids, hell no. But there are a lot of PEDS that are totally acceptable. That is just how sports are these days.
Players from Teams Across the Nation Choose LASIK
One player who has undergone this procedure is Denard Span, center fielder for the Minnesota Twins. In fact, he credits LASIK with getting him out of the minor leagues, where he was stuck for several years!
As a left-handed hitter, good vision in his right eye was essential for Span's batting, but his was only 20/40, meaning that an object 20 feet away would look as blurry to him as an object 40 feet away would look to the average person. Oftentimes, Span wasn't even sure what pitches he was swinging at. After the surgery, he said, "At least now when I walk back to the dugout, I know what pitch I was fooled on. It's helped me in the field, too. It's definitely made a world of difference."
Before undergoing LASIK, Mark Hendrickson of the Florida Marlins had vision so bad that he couldn't see his catcher's signals. He was legally blind in one eye, and had 20/50 vision in the other! After surgery, his vision was 20/15, which he believes doubled his chance to stay in the major leagues.
Other players who have undergone the procedure are Mark Redman of the Colorado Rockies, Greg Maddux of the San Diego Padres, Jarrod Washburn of the Seattle Mariners, Troy Glaus of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Paul Byrd of the Cleveland Indians.
Could LASIK Give an Unfair Edge?
The popularity of LASIK amongst players has not gone unnoticed by some critics, who liken the procedure to steroids, as a form of cheating. How could vision correction be considered cheating? Well, for some patients, the LASIK procedure results in vision that is even better than normal, such as 20/10, where the patient can see an object as clearly at 20 feet as a normal person would see it at 10. For this reason, sometimes players with near-normal vision consider the surgery, however many doctors would advise against going for this sort of "enhancement." Like any surgery, LASIK has risks and potential complications including dry eye, infection, and vision problems.
If you are an athlete who is considering vision correction to improve your game, please visit your eye doctor for additional information, and to discuss the potential risks as well as the benefits.
Surgery to help increase eye sight, drugs that block pain, drugs that help you shed weight, supplements that help you maintain weight. Team doctors put in work to ensure they give athletes the edge the need without breaking rules set in place. Trust me most guys are taking advantage of science to keep the checks coming and to compete at the highest level. They ain't doing it with just hard work and a cook.
So in closing. I do believe PBF and Manny are using PEDs. I just don't think they are using illegal peds.
