[KurtBevacqua]

Originally Posted by Jason Moyer

If I were an athlete and there were a product available that was neither illegal nor against the rules of the sport and it helped my body recover faster from workouts and injuries I'd take it without a second thought. I really wonder if people who are critical of Bonds/Clemens/McGwire (assuming McGwire's sin was Andro, and not something else) would do anything differently in their situations.

I think it's a bogus assumption to say most people would take this stuff. I ran track at a Div 1 school and there was plenty of availability of steroids. Shoot, I remember a friend of mine who was on the football team having problems bulking up and asking the strength coach what he could do. The strength coach told him, "Obviously I can't advise you to juice up, but if you did here's how I would go about it." And the coach proceeded to give him a lesson on the best mix and use of steroids. My friend was pre-med and understood all this stuff very well. He was extremely disillusioned to have an authority figure he trusted and respected go down this path. My friend refused to juice up. This was back in the mid 80's before the federal law against steroids and before the NCAA tested for it. My friend could have done this and easily gotten away with it.

The juice was there and any one of us could have gone down that path. None of my friends did it. Sure, I knew some guys on the football team were, but the point is each person can make their own choice and to assume most everyone would sell themselves out to go down this path is false. There are still some people with integrity left in this world.