...the other kind.
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Dodger superslugger Manny Ramirez has been banned from playing in the
team's next 50 Major League Baseball games after he was found to have
ingested a legal substance under the advice of his doctor. The drug?
We'll give you one guess as to what it's for...
Ramirez released the following statement Thursday morning:
“Recently I saw a physician for a personal health issue. He gave me a
medication, not a steroid, which he thought was okay to give me.
Unfortunately, the medication was banned under our drug policy. Under
the policy that mistake is now my responsibility. I have been advised
not to say anything more for now. I do want to say one other thing;
I’ve taken and passed about 15 drug tests over the past five seasons.
A Major League baseball official said that if Ramirez had a
legitimate need for a drug on the banned list, he could have applied
for a therapeutic exemption. Ramirez, the official said, did not ask
for one.
Have you figured out what dumbass, who is expected to lose out on
something insane like $7-8 million dollars for this error in judgment,
took to help himself out?
...two sources said the substance Ramirez tested positive for was a
gonadotropin. Major League baseball’s list of banned substances
includes the gonadotropins LH and HCG, which are most commonly used by
women as fertility drugs. They also can be used to trigger testosterone
production. Testosterone is depleted by steroid use, and low
testosterone can cause erectile dysfunction.
“Testosterone and similar drugs are effective for erectile
dysfunction in that they jazz up your sex drive,” said Charles Yesalis,
a professor at Penn State who has testified before Congress on issues
of performance-enhancing drugs. “But far more clinicians accept that
affect with Viagra and Cialis. It’s hard for me to understand if it was
erectile dysfunction why they would use it.”
So, let me get this straight: Viagra and Cialis are not banned by
the MLB, so he used a substance that was? Dude, it wasn't worth it for
the extra testosterone-- blood flow from ED drugs would've been a wiser
move. Too late now.
Via Yahoo! Sports.
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