Aside from the name making you think it's some horribly evil drug that makes you grow a third arm out of your chest, I wonder if HGH actually made Bonds a better hitter, or if it made him appear to be a better hitter because it kept him healthy at a time when he was struggling with injuries. Right before he allegedly started taking it, and right after he stopped, he started suffering from serious injuries, and I wonder if the difference between a clean and a doped Bonds had less to do with his performance and more to do with whether or not he was still playing baseball.
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"I pretty much popped everything cold turkey. We were doing steroids they wouldn't give to horses."
-- Tom House
"I was very fortunate to have a pitching coach by the name of Tom House...Tom, I really miss those days that we spent in the weight room and out on the field working together."
-- Nolan Ryan's HoF Induction Speech
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