Just hours after Rick Ankiel powered the Cardinals to another win with two home runs and 7 RBI against the Pirates, the New York Daily News revealed that Ankiel received a shipment of human growth hormone in 2004.
According to records obtained by The News and sources close to the controversy surrounding anti-aging clinics that dispense illegal prescription drugs, Ankiel received eight shipments of HGH from Signature Pharmacy in Orlando from January to December 2004, including the brand-name injectable drugs Saizen and Genotropin.
This may be the last straw that forever taints baseball with zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Wha? Oh. Anyway. Deadspin's got a nice, heartfelt piece on this, if that's what you need to set your mind at peace in the wake of this earth-shattering revelation. You know what would set my mind at peace? A license to kill. You want some change, do ya? *BLAM!*
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They're still playing baseball?
"Cardinal Sin", eh? It must've taken that I-Team hours to come up with that one.
RBD- It was better than their first idea: "AN-KIELING THEM WITH HGH"
What??? You mean a pitching prospect can't magically turn into a 40 HR hitter overnight??? Next thing you'll tell me is that elected officials troll for gay sex in airport restrooms. Allegedly.
Ugh. Just add another to the list of guys I can NEVER ROOT FOR AGAIN.
And WHAT KIND OF FUCKIN' MANAGER IS LARUSSA ANYWAYS?
2004? And he's barely getting busted now? When I got pulled over last night, I had to keister my
cocaineperformance enhancing drugs so as not to get caught. That why I was known as the Keister Bunny on my cell block.Can we just assume that everyone in MLB is using some sort of drug and stop talking about this? Steroids are not ruining baseball. Talking about how steroids are ruining baseball is ruining baseball.
Hey, as long as baseball is still ruined that's cool with me
Also ruining baseball: Baseball.
"The boredom is excruciating, use the Accele-Ray"
From the "Who Gives a Shit Dept": HGH wasn't a banned substance in 2004, or in 2005 when Ankiel stopped receiving shipments.
@yamabushi: but the very fabric of the universe may rip!
Is X a performance enhancer? They better not make that shit illegal, I would have a serious problem with that, and so would my hoes……..What?
nice work on the Prelude Matt…
kept me busy while the rest of these suckers were reading this yawner on HGH….zing!
LSD is a performance enhancer, kinda, as the DOC
So if you are actually performing, in baseball, you're on HGH or steroids?
Does this mean that tomorrow, theoretically, that I could walk into a classroom and accuse a straight A student of doping?
God that metaphor sucks
who cares anymore? Let him shoot up whatever they want especially Coke. Maybe the game will finish in less than 3 hours if everybody's wired.
He's not the only one getting named today:
[sportsillustrated.cnn.com]
Although the only people busted up about Troy Glaus using HGH are those few Blue Jay fans. That's right, all 10 or so of you.
HGH is about as interesting as Fernando Vina on BBT.