June 06, 2006
If steroids are cheating, why isn't LASIK? - I was skeptical from the title but people really are getting eye surgery to help them see the ball or the field that much better, even if their vision wasn't medically bad to begin with.
Use of LASIK is fair because you could go get LASIK without having to mortgage your future (that is until we discover that LASIK causes sudden irreversible blindness after 15 years). Steroids on the other hand are unfair because the sacrifice involved is considered too large by most reasonable people.
If it weren't for the long-term health effects of steroids, I think that there would be no reason to consider them cheating, much less make them illegal (I don't think they should be illegal anyway).
Hhhmmm. Apparently I'm a "very good candidate" for having Lasik (never mind the lack of $3k), but I have no interest in the surgery b/c the end result will (most likely) not be as good as my vision corrected with contact lenses. It's hit or miss whether the results will be an improvement or not. Maybe Tiger Woods was badly astigmatic, far sighted, or had some other eye anomally that did not lend itself well to corrective lenses. Or maybe William Saletan is just digging for catchy stories....
Well, he makes a point that if you upgrade to the big bling edition of LASIK, they use "wavefront technology" which I presume includes a better technology or whatever and they can more or less routinely hit 20/15 (like The Men's Warehouse, they probably "guarantee it" where "it" is ill-defined).
And if steroids are contraversial, shouldn't beating your wife</b> also be? Nice to see that this is a less important story than the oh-so triumphant return of ROGER CLEMENS. If the league lets this fuckbar start another game again, I'll be very pissed.
link: (sorry mrflip and nate) link
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Okay, if you watch ESPN then you know it's plastered with the new Major League Baseball doping story. You can find more info anywhere, but I'll link to the Arizona Republic article that broke the story. It has links to the search warrant and a list of items seized from the player's home. Furthermore, for those of you that read the article, the last three paragraphs are hilarious.
For those of you that don't: Jason Grimsley, a pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, was caught by federal agents accepting a mail delivery of a "season's supply" of human growth hormone. In his conversation with agents he mentioned other players involved, but while the statements were released, the names of other players were blacked out. There is much SPECULATION that some of the game's most respected players could be using the substance since MLB does not test its players' blood and there is no urine test for HGH.
posted by leroy at 12:58PM CST on June 08