I used to be as outraged by steroids and the cheaters as anyone. But since Pettitte and the Yankees have virutally gotten a free pass I don’t care anymore.

So until the press/msm starts calling for the Yankees to give back WS titles or division or WC titles or have asterisks or whatever they need to leave everyone else alone. I mean they have been associated with about as many known steroids users as any team but they want to put an asterisk on McGwire’s record and ban Bonds?

If we were talking about (insert White Met here) there wouldn’t even be any question. Same reason the only white guy who continues to have issues in the MSM with Steroids only is there cause he keeps denying the obvious

To me, this is what’s so annoying about the PED hysteria complex. The same this drivel runs two actual PED users are caught by the NFL drug policy. Not even mentioned in the story (and that information was available when the Lupica story was updated.)

“But nobody should be surprised that people are looking to draw a line from Galea to what showed up in Reyes’ blood tests. That is the modern culture of professional sports, which means the drug culture.”

That’s also the culture of modern sports journalism, where self-righteous gasbags cherry pick the people and cases that are “destroying America’s youth” and demand that we all be outraged when they tell us to be. No innuendo to frivolous to start hurling accusations not so cleverly disguised as questions at baseball players, but in football boys will be boys I suppose.

And you can’t hurt him anymore.

Maybe a tiny baby elephant.

I don’t have much problem with this story. It’s just one of those things where there will be a question: hmm, recently questioned by the FBI about connection to hgh doc in Canada, now some kind of thyroid issue. Is there a connection? So he asks some doc. Folks speculated with Giambi when he was reported to have a benign tumor (athough perhaps that alleged link is more well-known).

Someone above questioned whether it was a race thing. I don’t think this is something white players (or non-Mets) get free passes on. Giambi, Clemens, McGwire, yada yada. Frankly, even though he isn’t a slugger, i always have had suspicions about Jeter. His head would certainly ruin your crew neck cashmere sweater if he borrowed it.

This could all be and probably is nothing at all, and I just hope Jose is fine and can play this year. Doesn’t seem like anything to panic about. I’m not a huge Lupica fan, but this is low on my list of things to get me bothered, some thumb-sucker on reyes/thyroid/hgh.

Yes, I understand it is quite common. Not sure if that is what Jose has or if he has has an underactive thyroid. Apparently he isn’t sure either.

It is more likely in women then men. About 1/50 women. 1/500 men. HCG produced during preganancy can cause hyperthyroidism. Manny took HCG. I don’t really know any of this stuff, this was just a quick bunch of google searches.

Hey, Lupica asked one doc, who didn’t say it was the cause. Could be. As a doc, you would go down the list, check things off. That’s basically what the guy said, without going back to read it.

I have no idea if that doc knows what the hell he is talking about. Could be a hell of a lot of things.

These things are things people will think about. There’s almost no way to raise it without it raising a doubt. I know someone pointed to the NY mag piece. Well, that’s another way. Saying that everyone speculating is just speculating and that just stinks. Sure. Of course they are. Speculating, that is.

The thing is, most of the folks here don’t care if he was taking it, so even bringing it up as possible strikes them as being offensive, kind of like wagering on a sick person’s recovery odds. Who cares, right?

I suppose Lupica was being a bit of a jerk. Still doesn’t bother me that much.

Regardless, Reyes was using a trainer who supplied HGH, and two weeks later, he announces a relatively uncommon medical condition that has ties to HGH.

It’s always fun to attack Lupica, but acting like this is a total non-story is sort of pollyanna-ish.

It’s ok to believe that Reyes never took HGH while still being able to acknowledge that it looks a little fishy.

Similar to OJ, it’s all just circumstantial evidence. ;-)