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Online Natsinpwc

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PED Busts (2025)
« on: March 31, 2025, 06:22:47 pm »
Profar suspended for 80 games.  PEDs.  Braves off to a rough start. 

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Re: PED Busts (2025)
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2025, 06:24:54 pm »
Profar suspended for 80 games.  PEDs.  Braves off to a rough start. 
personally, I'm shocked that this guy could go from a stiff from 2021-23 to an all star last year.

Offline Dave in Fairfax

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Re: PED Busts (2025)
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2025, 06:35:23 pm »
personally, I'm shocked that this guy could go from a stiff from 2021-23 to an all star last year.
I assume you mean 2012-23. He was at best a middling journeyman for a decade, and suddenly he's an All-Star. Yeah, that would raise a bunch of flags.

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Re: PED Busts (2025)
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2025, 07:32:23 pm »
Busted for PEDs.

This is why you don't sign 30-something players coming off career years following a winter with the daddy of a dude who tested positive.

I can't say there's an active MLB player I dislike more than him.  Skated on prospect hype for like 8 years, then did PEDs.  Just send Jarred Kelenic down to Tatis next.

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Re: PED Busts (2025)
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2025, 08:23:56 pm »
Fringe player gets a career year and a $42 million contract. He’ll lose $6 million, but unless he’s an idiot, he’ll be clean and accepting paychecks through the end of the deal.

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Re: PED Busts (2025)
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2025, 06:05:04 pm »
He was just trying to lose weight.  It’s discrimination against fatties.

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Re: PED Busts (2025)
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2025, 06:19:50 am »
GIven the current state of testing, across all sports, and the history of doping within baseball, it's surprizing that this seems to be returning to greater prominence now. Ever since the EPO fiasco, the testers have done pretty well at staying ahead of the dopers - it's difficult to imagine anyone falling for the 'it's something new - they'll never find it' argument. On the contrary, the likelihood of getting caught is higher now than ever. Gambling, of every sort, is clearly an issue for the sport - whether that's gambing on games, or with contracts and careers...

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Re: PED Busts (2025)
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2025, 09:02:57 am »
This one was for unnaturally high testosterone or a synthetic testosterone. Not really designer stuff.