Could the WADA be any more annoying?
I’m really sick of the preachy idiots at the World Anti-Doping Agency. Here they are complaining that MLB isn’t serious about "integrity" because they won’t just jump all established collective bargaining rules and suck blood out of their employees.
We continue to read statements from the MLB commissioner and MLBPA representatives questioning the appropriateness of implementing blood testing in their league. This is nonsense.
Here’s a new opportunity for you, then: now you can read a statement from an internet asshole with no affiliation whatsoever with MLB who also questions the appropriateness of blood testing. I have issues with the idea of my employer sticking needles into my body in an effort to prevent me from sticking needles into my body, and it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that baseball players do, too.
The blunt reality is that a number of doping substances and methods, including HGH, are currently detectable only through blood testing.
Here’s another blunt reality for you to masticate upon: HGH has never been shown to do anything useful for baseball players. Or, really, for anybody at all. At most, its effects appear to be a small increase in overall mass (or a large increase, like acromegaly, at truly heroic dosage).
International scientific experts agree that HGH is found in extremely small quantities in urine and that a potential detection method for this substance in urine is years away. Joint blood and urine testing is the only way to go for sports organizations to ensure that they use proper means to protect the integrity of their sport.
Oh, right. The integrity of the sport. I forgot about that. I guess that high-minded excuse trumps logic, reason, and evidence. Just one question: if we catch somebody using HGH, do we hang him or press him?
Blood sample collection has been conducted for years in many sports around the world without any problem. So why do others still refuse it?
Because it’s invasive, unwarranted bullshit, and it’s being justified due to an overreaction to a non-problem. If that’s really not enough reason for you, well, I just don’t know what else to say.
Well, I mean, I can think of a few other things to say — you know, like about your financial stake in MLB going along with your righteous zeal — but Jeff Passan’s already said it. So I’ll let him have the last word here.
