tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416156337253608395.post5513914787502447799..comments2023-06-14T09:45:54.256-04:00Comments on One Yank Abroad: A Chance to Relax and a PED rantJordan Seabrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09646475394329832073noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416156337253608395.post-41848826682724508532013-06-12T13:31:42.384-04:002013-06-12T13:31:42.384-04:00First of all thanks for commenting. I love hearin...First of all thanks for commenting. I love hearing what people have to say and I just about always respond. Also thank you for the compliments!<br /><br />While I don't want to get too much into this, I will respond to the questions. I'm not putting protein shakes against HGH and steroids, I'm grouping them together. Not everyone, as you state, has access to protein shakes. I didn't in America in USL because the club didn't provide it and in Harrisburg I made about $600/month. I couldn't spare $30-40 a month to get a protein supplement. Is that an unfair advantage for VPS over Harrisburg City Islanders?<br /><br />Before you answer that question, ask yourself: Is unfairness wrong? Soccer already is all about money. Lionel Messi makes more in a week than VPS's yearly operating budget. FC Barcelona's training staff has a budget of over 1,000,000 euros a season. Would legalizing HGH really give a club like Barcelona more of an advantage over VPS than they already have? Or would it help ensure that players that are most important to fans and owners are as strong and healthy as possible? And isn't that the point? If we only allow things that all or most clubs can afford, then prepare to see every big player on earth get injured, as no one could play 50-60 games a season with a Veikkausliiga-sized physio budget.<br /><br />As for youth, I see no difference in HGH or steroids than protein. The type of idiots who would use it recklessly are using it already anyway. Why not legalize something that is completely safe when regulated? And to the funding aspect, I say only that being poor never stopped Brazil from dominating world soccer. And being rich never did anything for the UAE or Saudi Arabia or America for that matter.<br /><br />We're not talking about giving people poison, we're talking about giving them prescription medication. My assertion is simply that if the people who run sports didn't make them illegal, then no one would think twice about an athlete using steroids or HGH. The same way that no one here thinks twice about creatine, but if you're an NCAA athlete in America creatine is just as illegal as steroids and can get you banned for a year. Messi used HGH (as a kid) and no one cares, because he didn't do anything wrong or illegal. If someone wants PEDs and can't afford them? Too bad. I want to play for Chelsea but they don't want me. That's life.Jordan Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09646475394329832073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416156337253608395.post-29915450857044765542013-06-04T19:18:22.025-04:002013-06-04T19:18:22.025-04:00So you're pitting protein shake against HGH an...So you're pitting protein shake against HGH and steroids?<br />Everyone, rich and poor, have access to protein and it's really really cheap compared to the stuff that the "professional" athletes use.<br /><br />In small doses i don't think steroids have any downsides, but with those small doses you don't get the "up"-sides either.<br /><br />If PEDs would be legalized, every sport would be even more about the money than it is now. Where would for example VPS get the funding to keep their players pumped up on the new good stuff that must be reeeeaally more expensive than the protein shakes they get now.<br /><br />And what about the youth? Where would a young and upcoming athlete get a funding for example HGH administred by a licensed doctor?<br /><br />Well that wasn't really what i wanted for my first comment to be like so i'll end with congratulating you for a really interesting blog.<br />I really like you're writing style and it's really nice to get some inside information from my hometown team.<br /><br />Plus i liked you're throw-in against Jaro, fast thinking and a great assist on a great goal. Keep up the good work!mursutinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05797011143810639325noreply@blogger.com