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This is from the Sporting News. Excellent article. It mimics my beliefs on the subject. For those that don't want to read the whole article my favorite quotes are in bold.
LMAO at some of his comments.
Originally posted by Dave Kindred of Sporting NewsSports - Sporting News
It doesn't take genius to pass a steroids test
Mon Aug 12, 2:14 PM ET
By Dave Kindred - The Sporting News
Naturally, athletes were eager to pay for advice from Charles E. Yesalis. The Penn State professor knows steroids. He has written three books on the subject. He has testified to Congress. He has worked with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee ( news - web sites), the FBI ( news - web sites), the American Medical Association, the NFL Players Association, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the NCAA ( news - web sites).
So athletes sought him out. Not for help in getting the drugs that are legally obtained only by prescription; anybody smart enough to buy Milk Duds can score steroids. Nor were athletes concerned about health risks; who sweats the small stuff when you believe you're bullet-proof?
They came to Yesalis in hopes of covering up the crime.
"They wanted to hire me as a consultant to make sure they don't get caught," he says.
He says he turned down the requests, once prompting an athlete to say, "Well, Chuck, I figured you were going to say that. But, you know, I would even take it off my income tax as a business expense." They shared a laugh there.
Such a world we've made.
Steroids as business tools.
Every home run hitter a suspect.
Now we hear Major League Baseball making noises about a steroids-testing program. Though any testing is better than no testing, Yesalis says the hard truth is that not even the most stringent program, let alone the namby-pamby deal likely to come from current talks, will eliminate steroids in baseball.
"With drug testing in place in the NFL, NBA, and every major Olympic sport, there's still a steroids problem in those leagues and federations," he says. "It would be naive to think that if baseball had a steroids-testing program, they're still not going to have a huge problem."
The problem will persist because world-class athletes and chemists generally stay a step ahead of the science posse. Or, as Yesalis has come to believe after 23 years of research: "Drug tests catch only stupid, careless and foolish people."
There are, as we know, locker rooms filled with the stupid, careless and foolish. But Yesalis draws a distinction that applies to baseball's millionaires.
"If you're talking about an elite, wealthy athlete," he says, "they'll go to people like me to make sure they don't flunk drug tests."
For Yesalis, a test by eyesight is enough: "When you see mature men who have already strength-trained for years, and all of a sudden they gain 30 pounds of lean mass, I am tremendously suspicious because that doesn't happen naturally. You don't need to be a steroid scientist to know that is incomprehensible."
Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa, two suddenly bulky strongmen, have denied using steroids and pledged to abide by any testing program players help devise. Many people, including borderline omniscient sportswriters, have insisted that Bonds and Sosa pass a test because a simple test would end the suspicion.
No, it would not. Passing such a test can mean ...
1) The athlete doesn't use steroids.
2) He uses steroids daily but with a masking agent.
3) He uses steroids, but all traces are flushed out of his system within two or three days.
4) He uses a steroid recipe fashioned by a designer famous for undetectable potions.
5) He used steroids as training aids ( news - web sites) two years ago, bulked up, kept buff with madman workouts and now needs a juice refill only every January.
6) He uses human growth hormone, or insulin-like growth factor I. These replicate steroid enhancement, but no test exists for them.
The question: "So a negative steroid test really proves nothing?"
Yesalis: "You are absolutely and totally correct."
As for the positive result that identifies a user, it can happen. Inexplicable things happen. Julia Roberts married Lyle Lovett. But
Yesalis' experience suggests Gwyneth Paltrow will marry Britney Spears and Lil' Bow Wow in a three-way ceremony before Bonds or Sosa tests positive.
Beyond the athlete's ability to finesse the test, Yesalis cites circumstantial evidence that a multibillion-dollar industry might not identify all its cheaters:
"What franchise-making NFL superstar has ever been caught in their drug screening for performance-enhancing drugs? None. Who is the last world-famous Olympic athlete caught? Ben Johnson ( news - external web site), 1988. ... Even with drug-testing, I believe the NFL, the NHL, the NBA and the majority of Olympic sports have the same level of drug use as is attributed to baseball."
As if to buttress Yesalis' belief, Dr. Wade Exum, for nine years the director of the U.S. Olympic Committee's drug control program, has charged in a lawsuit that the USOC has not identified or sanctioned several U.S. medal winners who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. The USOC denies it.
Yesalis even wonders if fans care. "Oh, yes, a lot of fans say they're bothered. I'm bothered by the fact these chemically enhanced athletes are breaking records of my idol, Mickey Mantle, where my strong belief is these clowns couldn't carry Mantle's jockstrap.
"But the important question is, 'Mr. and Mrs. Fan, are you bothered enough to turn off your television? Or not pay $200 for an evening at Camden Yards?' I think we know fans are not bothered much. If anything, given the fans' love of watching the ball go over the wall, steroids have been very, very good for baseball."
Yikes.
In fact, double yikes.
Dave Kindred is a contributing writer for The Sporting News. Email him at kindred@ sportingnews.com.
LMAO at some of his comments.
