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Post by Evil Yoda on Sept 12, 2014 10:31:22 GMT -5
Chris Davis has been suspended by MLB for 25 games after testing positive for amphetamines. This will carry into the post season. ArticleMost disappointing. I would now be against re-signing him, since his skills declined from last year *with* drug abuse. Let someone else take a chance on him. |
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Post by mmmbeer on Sept 12, 2014 10:38:38 GMT -5
no machado & no davis. That's a tough 1-2 blow for the playoffs.
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Post by alienrace on Sept 12, 2014 13:02:37 GMT -5
no machado & no davis. That's a tough 1-2 blow for the playoffs. Agreed. |
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Post by Evil Yoda on Sept 12, 2014 13:18:52 GMT -5
The drug in question is Adderall, which is given to children to stop them from behaving like children do when educators bore them.  More seriously, it is a stimulant, but for poorly understood reasons it seems to help children who suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder and its cousin Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. College students also use it, usually without medical sanction, to help prepare for finals. Davis apparently had a therapeutic use exception at one time - this is a certification that the individual has been medically prescribed the drug. But it expired or in some other way became invalid. |
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Post by mmmbeer on Sept 12, 2014 14:45:36 GMT -5
no machado & no davis. That's a tough 1-2 blow for the playoffs. Agreed. and markakis is back to scuffling... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 22:50:00 GMT -5
Back in the day, they were called "greenies." Every clubhouse had them and practically every player took them. Jacqueline Susann would have had a ball in most professional locker rooms back then.
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Post by highmc2 on Sept 12, 2014 23:35:24 GMT -5
Back in the day, they were called "greenies." Every clubhouse had them and practically every player took them. Jacqueline Susann would have had a ball in most professional locker rooms back then. This is nothing new. Just google Baltimore Orioles/greenies/Jim Bouton. Bouton exposed it all 45 years ago. Our childhood heroes were doing the same thing to get a competitive advantage. They just didn't have to piss in a cup a few times a year. |
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Post by shutout on Sept 12, 2014 23:41:51 GMT -5
Hot team right now and for the most part are just going out and beating teams with out constant late inning heroics. First game required some but over all just good solid baseball.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 23:44:51 GMT -5
Back in the day, they were called "greenies." Every clubhouse had them and practically every player took them. Jacqueline Susann would have had a ball in most professional locker rooms back then. This is nothing new. Just google Baltimore Orioles/greenies/Jim Bouton. Bouton exposed it all 45 years ago. Our childhood heroes were doing the same thing to get a competitive advantage. They just didn't have to piss in a cup a few times a year. I've read Ball Four. Bouton probably embellished a bit, but players back then had certain conditions that contemporary ballplayers don't have to deal with. Doubleheaders after night games, for example. Commercial instead of chartered flights was another. And since long-term, guaranteed contracts were unheard of, a player did what he had to do to keep his job. As Bill Veeck once observed, you didn't necessarily break the rules, you just tested their elasticity.
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Post by shutout on Sept 13, 2014 0:40:07 GMT -5
It was a different era. As a long time Cardinal fan I remember portions of Flood's actions.
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More seriously, it is a stimulant, but for poorly understood reasons it seems to help children who suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder and its cousin Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. College students also use it, usually without medical sanction, to help prepare for finals. Davis apparently had a therapeutic use exception at one time - this is a certification that the individual has been medically prescribed the drug. But it expired or in some other way became invalid.
