December 18, 2007
Big Byrd
Paul Byrd and MLB sat down Monday to discuss his HGH use. Byrd says he used it under a doctor's supervision for a medical problem:
HGH was banned by baseball in 2005. The Chronicle reported Byrd made his final purchase of HGH a week before the ban began.
I would like to know what drug replaced HGH to treat Byrd's problem.
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On that topic, and similar to what has been said in response to Pettitte's statement, I wonder if it's starting to dawn on fans that using HGH for recovery from most ailments/injuries isn't really an excuse.
If Byrd says that he took it for a pituitary ailment, and stopped when it was banned, it has to be that there is some other treatment, allowed by baseball, that works just fine. Similarly for Pettitte, we know that there are numerous ways to recover from tendonitis. Simply put, it's laughable to think that they (as well as others who have used similar excuses) just happened upon HGH as their treatment. It's a choice, and it's a choice made knowing exactly what ancillary benefits are thought to come with it.
Now, as one who isn't all that concerned with the PED "scandal" and especially so when it concerns usage before the time they were truly banned, I'm not really even speaking to the acts themselves. It's just that, as someone with, well, half a brain, I'm a bit insulted by the excuses.