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Gary Matthews Jr. Named as Customer of Steroid Vendor

The Albany TimesUnion Fishwrap covered the lightning raid of an Orlando Florida pharmacy (by law enforcement officers too ball-less to pursue violent criminals who threaten our everyday lives) for alleged violations of federal and state prescription laws.

While the many NFL players who used its services will likely get off scott free (although an unnamed physician for the Pittsburgh Steelers is reported to have purchase $150,000 in testosterone and Human Growth Hormone), the paper blithely outed one MLB player:

The customers include Los Angeles Angels centerfielder Gary Matthews Jr., according to sources with knowledge of the investigation.

For the ordinary fan, I suppose the only solution to this is to get out that John Fogerty CD and crank up Centerfield and pull out that old notebook and log whether the tears well up before or after the lines "Rounding Third and Heading For Home"...

Hope the men in blue had fun playing cops while more kids became crack addicts today.

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Internet Pharmacies
If this is true, then GMJ and other athletes would have to be huge idiots to use their real names to order steroids over the internet.

I wouldn't take this as evidence of guilt.

by akathelorax on Feb 27, 2007 12:43 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

agree
innocent until proven guilty ... no word on when or where or what ... and of course, the source is unnamed ... as are any players who play on teams in the vicinity of NEW YORK...

by Rev Halofan on Feb 27, 2007 12:45 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Team 'Roids
Monkey Twin Powers: Activate.

These guys are/were obviously users, right?  I mean, come on.  Am I off on this?

by Bilko 420 on Feb 27, 2007 1:40 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Roids, Roids, Roids
The sudden power spike at age 32 by GMJ is mighty suspicious, but if he doesn't fail any drug tests then I don't care.

I just think that whatever testing that baseballplayers are subject to, then other professional sports and congress should have the same rules.  Can you imagine a Senator being outed for toking a little weed?

by elricsi on Feb 27, 2007 2:34 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Or a President
for the use of a certain oral injection...?
Fire Mickey Hatcher. An entire generation of Angels offense depends upon it.

by scareduck on Feb 27, 2007 2:38 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Stupid Question
but Oral Injection?
No offense? Howie, Kotch and Napoli will change your mind.

by hauldog on Feb 27, 2007 2:44 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

maybe
he is talking about Clinton

by Hutch (someone took my name) on Feb 27, 2007 7:06 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

but that's legal
poor judgement-yes, stupid-yes, illegal-no
Come on already.....PLAY BALL!!!

by ladybug on Feb 27, 2007 8:17 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Sudden power spike?
you mean the 2 HR improvement from 17 to 19 from 2005 to 2006?  Or are you refering to the 5 HR spike from 2001 to 2006?
No offense? Howie, Kotch and Napoli will change your mind.

by hauldog on Feb 27, 2007 2:45 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Power spike came more in doubles
17 to 25 to 44 (2004-2006).

Innocent until proven guilty.

But this isn't good news.

Let's hope GMJ still has a good year, regardless.

by ligtreb on Feb 27, 2007 3:44 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Look on the bright side
if he never tests positive, but the story is still true, then it means last year wasn't a fluke, but that there was a reason for it, and a reason for it to continue.  Of course, it comes at the expense of having a cheater on the team, but hey.

Yeah, that's pretty retarded.

by Caseys Kiss of Death on Feb 27, 2007 4:21 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

here is what I want to know
if HGH is being legally, presumibly safely, used by lots of people as an anti aging agent, why am I not?  Why aren't more people turning back the clock.    What's good enough for celeb's is good enough for me.
If GMJ was using it legally, than we have no issue.  I thought I read somewhere he has a legal prescription.  I could be wrong though.

by LosAngel on Feb 27, 2007 7:45 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

I was wrong
it was David Segui who took legal HGH.

by LosAngel on Feb 27, 2007 7:53 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

HGH is only licensed for...
Growth hormone deficiency either in children (usually related to certain genetic syndromes or inadequate renal function)or adults (usually related to some type of pituitary abnormality).

It's not licensed as an anti-ageing agent, it's not licenced as a muscle-building agent.  If a doctor prescribed it for those reasons, they'd be legally responsible for any negative consequences of treatment as it hasn't been approved by the FDA for those uses.

Interestingly, one of the side-effects of chronic use is it makes your skull bigger - i.e it makes you big headed.  In that case, you kinda wonder why it's taken them 4 unproductive years to pin anything on Bonds.

by The Limey on Feb 28, 2007 11:24 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

like Sosa
you can see it in his face. Bonds is obvious too... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17384233/
Come on already.....PLAY BALL!!!

by ladybug on Feb 28, 2007 2:17 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

To be honest...
...you don't need a test for HGH that relies on measuring levels of it in the urine, plasma, blood etc.

Rather than looking for these direct markers of things as proof, they should be assessing their unique effects:

You measure the size of the hands, feet, head - those bits that really shouldn't grow any more after 18, rather than the chest, arms etc - and in anyone in whom there's a marked increase, you ban them.

by The Limey on Feb 28, 2007 2:29 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

In that case
I'm pretty sure the HGH gnomes injected my gut and my ass while I was sleeping

by Higz on Feb 28, 2007 5:00 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Nice
Yahoo! is currently running this story larger than life on their front splash -- with a whole lot of Angel red.

Federal authorities are investigating Gary Matthews Jr.
An era of rampant performance-enhancing drug use in baseball leaves fans with a moral dilemma.  

Prosecutor: Athletes received illegal steroids in online ring

by Bilko 420 on Feb 27, 2007 7:54 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Anything in his contract
that allows us to void it if he tests positive?  That would be pretty sweet in the long run.

by Caseys Kiss of Death on Feb 27, 2007 7:58 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

wouldn't that be part of the physical
when he was "hired"? If not, seems like it should be.
Come on already.....PLAY BALL!!!

by ladybug on Feb 27, 2007 8:19 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Bonds
Is the only player that I have heard of having something like that in their contract, and his is amphetamine related I believe.
No offense? Howie, Kotch and Napoli will change your mind.

by hauldog on Feb 27, 2007 8:36 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

If and when...
...things go suouth for Sarge Jr., it's Quinlan at third and Figgy in center. Chone could prove to be the Halo MVP of the decade.

As for testing, no way Jose [pun]. HGHs, the wave of the future, don't show up on tests.

by Ralph Zig Tyko on Feb 27, 2007 9:07 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Always
good for a laugh Rev. I've learned my lesson about reading this and eating at the same time.
Lamest poster of all-time.

by ineptituderunsamok on Feb 27, 2007 10:40 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

and put down the glass of milk
or out yer nostrils it may shoot if i have done my job.

by Rev Halofan on Feb 27, 2007 10:52 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

It
was clam chowder actually, and it didn't quite make it out of the nose.
Lamest poster of all-time.

by ineptituderunsamok on Feb 27, 2007 11:31 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

god damn it
Hope he's innocent or hope this voids the contract.

In any event, I always think of Tim Salmon when this comes up. I bet that Tim Salmon did not use steroids, and if he did, would have put up Rafael Palmeiro numbers.

Eat My Angel Dust.

by Angels95 on Feb 28, 2007 8:04 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

No doubt
If Salmon would've just used, it could've settled this argument once and for all -- that yes, Salmon was indeed a truly great ballplayer.

by Bilko 420 on Feb 28, 2007 8:30 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Bizarre!
I had no idea HGH whitened teeth and freshened breath too -- did you guys know this?

by Bilko 420 on Feb 28, 2007 9:02 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

well yeah....
Human Grin Hormone
Come on already.....PLAY BALL!!!

by ladybug on Feb 28, 2007 11:13 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

check out those
CROWS FEET - they go all the way to the back of his ear canal...

by Rev Halofan on Feb 28, 2007 3:33 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

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