steroids

Allegedly juiced-up Boston cops under investigation

adamg — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:19:50 -0400

As many as a dozen officers have been summoned to appear before a federal grand jury investigating steroid use and after-hours parties in the Boston Police Department - an offshoot of a probe that led to the convictions of three patrolmen last year, according to three law enforcement officials familiar with the case.

Earlier:
18 years for corrupt Boston cop.
Somebody in the Boston Police Department stole a lot of drugs.
Police commissioner: Swift, forceful, aggressive action against any police corruption.
Corrupt cop to the klink.
When crooked cops testify against other crooked cops.

On Harrison: People need to get over steroids already

tblade — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:12:35 -0400

Yes: any substance that has harmful effects on a players’ health should be banned. And Harrison should be punished for breaking the rules. And I’d love to see harmful steroids and supplements eliminated.

First, many of us break the rules every day - stealing from work, lying on taxes, speeding, intentionally running red lights, watching or listening to copyrighted material online, bloging at work thus stealing company time, etc, and no one calls us "liars, cheaters, and thieves" - yet we are.

The fact is many of our favorite players use steroids, HGH, banned performance-enhancing substances, etc - they just haven't been caught (I'd bet a large sum that Harrison isn't the only well-loved Patriot who has used questionable substances). I'd also wager that almost all championship teams of the last 20 years across all leagues include prominent users, so the Pats’ record is no more or less tainted than anyone else.

Steroids were prevalent in baseball during the 70s. But up until the last few years, testing in baseball has sucked. This means it is possible that many of your 70s & 80s "pre-steroid era" baseball heroes juiced. Yet they will never be held accountable because we can't go back in time and test them. All the while they can act "shocked" and "disgusted" that today's players juice up.

Will the Globe or Herald finally break a Boston steroid story?

adamg — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:45:09 -0400

Now that a marginal player from back in the day has admitted to shooting up (to a non-local media outlet), David Scott wonders if the local papers will do some investigative work:

... The Steroids Scandal has been barely played out in Boston and that needs to change.

With Crawford now in play, it opens up the entire 2000 and 2001 rosters and those are rosters filled with names that have been whispered before in this whole mess. (Need to throw away some more money, Joe Sullivan? Forget the Clemens "comeback" bullcrap. Send Shaughnasty out to get Carl Everett's (now with Seattle) reaction to the Paxton bomb. ...