TomBrady'sGoat
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Re: Ot: 2000 Nyy*
Argh, searching for this stuff is a pain right now. I'm not coming up with any links, so I can only ask you to listen and consider what I say (rather than being able to back it up with evidence). What I'm referring to is the fact that the US Government classifies HGH with steroids. Baseball had a (weak, unenforcible) policy that whatever the government considers illegal steroids are not allowed in baseball. Ergo, HGH was not allowed by baseball.
They didn't specifically ban it, but I don't know if they really needed to. Besides, the initial drug program was fought hard by the union and MLB had to make concessions just to get it approved. Is it really an excuse that HGH wasn't banned in the initial policy when the player's union wouldn't allow it to be?
It wasn't banned by MLB until 2 years ago.
HGH wasn't banned by MLB until Jan. 2005
By Tom Haudricourt
Thursday, Dec 13 2007, 02:54 PM
Human Growth Hormone, the performance-enhancing substance Eric Gagne was accused of purchasing in 2004 in the Mitchell Report released today, wasn't added to the list of banned substances by Major League Baseball until January 2005.
http://blogs.jsonline.com/brewers/archive/2007/12/13/hgh-wasn-t-banned-by-mlb-until-jan-2005.aspx
Argh, searching for this stuff is a pain right now. I'm not coming up with any links, so I can only ask you to listen and consider what I say (rather than being able to back it up with evidence). What I'm referring to is the fact that the US Government classifies HGH with steroids. Baseball had a (weak, unenforcible) policy that whatever the government considers illegal steroids are not allowed in baseball. Ergo, HGH was not allowed by baseball.
They didn't specifically ban it, but I don't know if they really needed to. Besides, the initial drug program was fought hard by the union and MLB had to make concessions just to get it approved. Is it really an excuse that HGH wasn't banned in the initial policy when the player's union wouldn't allow it to be?