How is an aging athlete using human growth hormone to extend his career any different from any one of us taking a blood-pressure lowering drug to extend our life?

via Ray Lewis’s Deer Antler Spray Was Another Imaginary Drug Scandal.

MAYBE BECA– USE ONE IS LIFE AND DEATH

We don’t want to lose the human aspect of our game. Getting old in life is natural, just like getting old in sports. You don’t want someone hanging on ’til they are 150 years old. And it doesn’t make sense to be able to play like you’re 20 when you’re 40.

I can’t relate to someone who does that (Barry Bonds).

Recovering from injuries is what we want medicine for, not tacking on unnatural muscle.

SO deer-antler spray isn’t as bad as HGH. Good. “Are we drawing arbitrary distinctions between substances that are OK and substances that aren’t?” Hell yes we are.

The average sports fan is not blind. You might catch us in the moment (Mark McGwire), but we can see now.

Maybe it is arbitrary, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.