Comments on: Jeter named SI’s Sportsman of the Year http://riveraveblues.com/2009/11/jeter-named-sis-sportsman-of-the-year-20591/ A New York Yankees Blog Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:34:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stuckey http://riveraveblues.com/2009/11/jeter-named-sis-sportsman-of-the-year-20591/#comment-699978 Stuckey Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:33:54 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20591#comment-699978 Playing with less pain is not performance enhancing? If it allows someone to play where normally the could not because of pain, or allows someone to repeat their proper mechanics without alteration due to pain, then I'm still not sure I see the difference. Injury and/or pain is a natural occurance. It's part of professional sports... any sports for that matter. I don't see how using drugs to suppress that natural occurance is any more or less an advantage. Playing with less pain is not performance enhancing?

If it allows someone to play where normally the could not because of pain, or allows someone to repeat their proper mechanics without alteration due to pain, then I’m still not sure I see the difference.

Injury and/or pain is a natural occurance. It’s part of professional sports… any sports for that matter.

I don’t see how using drugs to suppress that natural occurance is any more or less an advantage.

]]> By: Ed http://riveraveblues.com/2009/11/jeter-named-sis-sportsman-of-the-year-20591/#comment-699938 Ed Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:11:04 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20591#comment-699938 <i>But we’ve apparently drawn a line between drugs for treating pain and injury (which if you think of a player’s baseline ability at the time of use, can easily be argued as “performance enhancing”), and drugs for boosting ability sans injury. But practically is it really any different?</i> Yes, it is different. The drugs that are allowed suppress immune reactions, causing your body to do less than it normally does. You feel better but heal slower. The banned drugs prompt your body to suppress its natural restraints and do more than it normal does. Completely opposite effect. But we’ve apparently drawn a line between drugs for treating pain and injury (which if you think of a player’s baseline ability at the time of use, can easily be argued as “performance enhancing”), and drugs for boosting ability sans injury.

But practically is it really any different?

Yes, it is different. The drugs that are allowed suppress immune reactions, causing your body to do less than it normally does. You feel better but heal slower.

The banned drugs prompt your body to suppress its natural restraints and do more than it normal does. Completely opposite effect.

]]> By: Stuckey http://riveraveblues.com/2009/11/jeter-named-sis-sportsman-of-the-year-20591/#comment-699930 Stuckey Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:39:09 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20591#comment-699930 Cortisone is a steroid too... And I'll betcha anything pro baseball players pop over the counter painkillers like Advil like candy. But we've apparently drawn a line between drugs for treating pain and injury (which if you think of a player's baseline ability at the time of use, can easily be argued as "performance enhancing"), and drugs for boosting ability sans injury. But practically is it really any different? All give you the ability to perform at a level you might not be able to otherwise. Cortisone is a steroid too…

And I’ll betcha anything pro baseball players pop over the counter painkillers like Advil like candy.

But we’ve apparently drawn a line between drugs for treating pain and injury (which if you think of a player’s baseline ability at the time of use, can easily be argued as “performance enhancing”), and drugs for boosting ability sans injury.

But practically is it really any different?

All give you the ability to perform at a level you might not be able to otherwise.

]]> By: dkidd http://riveraveblues.com/2009/11/jeter-named-sis-sportsman-of-the-year-20591/#comment-699915 dkidd Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:11:35 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20591#comment-699915 but sportsman of the year is awesome and deserved but sportsman of the year is awesome and deserved

]]> By: dkidd http://riveraveblues.com/2009/11/jeter-named-sis-sportsman-of-the-year-20591/#comment-699914 dkidd Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:10:35 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20591#comment-699914 the yankees were such a deep and balanced team this year, it actually feels harder to make a case for jeter (or tex or a-rod) as TEAM mvp than league mvp (which of course makes no sense, i'm just saying...) the yankees were such a deep and balanced team this year, it actually feels harder to make a case for jeter (or tex or a-rod) as TEAM mvp than league mvp (which of course makes no sense, i’m just saying…)

]]> By: Rose http://riveraveblues.com/2009/11/jeter-named-sis-sportsman-of-the-year-20591/#comment-699894 Rose Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:23:27 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20591#comment-699894 Well he’s accurately depicted as a cocaine user because anybody <strike>with a mustache</strike> <b>LIVING AT ALL</b> in the 70’s or 80’s used and abused cocaine. /Unfairly Stereotype’d Fixed. Well he’s accurately depicted as a cocaine user because anybody with a mustache LIVING AT ALL in the 70’s or 80’s used and abused cocaine.

/Unfairly Stereotype’d

Fixed.

]]> By: Rose http://riveraveblues.com/2009/11/jeter-named-sis-sportsman-of-the-year-20591/#comment-699892 Rose Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:20:24 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20591#comment-699892 <b>I’m going to say Eckersley in 1992 at age 37 (unless there are PED rumors about him that I just haven’t heard of).</b> Well he's accurately depicted as a cocaine user because anybody with a mustache in the 70's or 80's used and abused cocaine. /Unfairly Stereotype'd I’m going to say Eckersley in 1992 at age 37 (unless there are PED rumors about him that I just haven’t heard of).

Well he’s accurately depicted as a cocaine user because anybody with a mustache in the 70′s or 80′s used and abused cocaine.

/Unfairly Stereotype’d

]]> By: Rose http://riveraveblues.com/2009/11/jeter-named-sis-sportsman-of-the-year-20591/#comment-699891 Rose Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:18:59 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20591#comment-699891 I also just tried adding an SAT Analogy in the correct formation stating "Adderall is to College as Steroids is to Baseball" with the colons and what not...but it didn't post it...nothing happened. Weird. haha. I also just tried adding an SAT Analogy in the correct formation stating “Adderall is to College as Steroids is to Baseball” with the colons and what not…but it didn’t post it…nothing happened. Weird. haha.

]]> By: Rose http://riveraveblues.com/2009/11/jeter-named-sis-sportsman-of-the-year-20591/#comment-699888 Rose Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:17:03 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20591#comment-699888 I agree...I wrote a longer version of what I wrote above but for some reason it was blocked and didn't show up when I hit "add comment"...it included just that and more. This has happened a few times to me...not sure what's going on but oh well. I agree…I wrote a longer version of what I wrote above but for some reason it was blocked and didn’t show up when I hit “add comment”…it included just that and more. This has happened a few times to me…not sure what’s going on but oh well.

]]> By: Thomas http://riveraveblues.com/2009/11/jeter-named-sis-sportsman-of-the-year-20591/#comment-699886 Thomas Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:13:52 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20591#comment-699886 I'm going to say Eckersley in 1992 at age 37 (unless there are PED rumors about him that I just haven't heard of). I’m going to say Eckersley in 1992 at age 37 (unless there are PED rumors about him that I just haven’t heard of).

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