Bode Miller argues steroids concern overblown: Performance enhancing drugs for everyone!
Add commentsSteroids are all rage in sports talk today. Floyd Landis clings to his soiled yellow jersey, no doubt thinking up his 12th outlandish, completely illogical excuse for his cheating right now. The journalists who wrote the Barry Bonds roids book are being threatened with jail time if they don’t spit on the first amendment and reveal sources they promised confidentiality. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem is being forced to do his embarrassing tap dance on the subject more and more.
Heck, even TravelGolf.com’s own Tim McDonald became the seventh or eighth blogger here to write about steroids, proving it’s an issue that concerns the own-oxygen-wheeling, nursing home set.
My man Bode Miller scoffs at all this uproar from the unenlightened, wimpy man masses. Yes, that Bode Miller, the Winter Olympics international punchline turned minor league baseball highlight catch man (no joke, Bode made SportsCenter for his grab in a one-game stint this summer).
In an exclusive interview from Lake Tahoe earlier this summer, Bode all but cackled when I asked if performance enhancing drugs were hurting sports.
“What do you call aspirin?,” Miller shot back. “What do you call Creatine? What do you call vitamin C? Those are all the same thing. It’s not any different than anything else. I don’t know why everybody takes issue with (steroids).
“I think they should not worry about it and let athletes do what they want to do, to be in proper training, proper diet. I wish the most performance enhancing stuff on everybody in their life.
“I would wish you to enhance your performance as much as you could. Something that kills or causes bodily harm, that’s not performance enhancing.”
Yes, I believe Bode urged me to use steroids. That’s the kind of love he has in his big heart. And he never even saw me attempt to play golf.
For the complete interview with Bode Miller, stay tuned to BadGolfer.com.
Just don’t bug me. I’m busy. Is it the clear and then the cream … or the cream and then the clear … Damn it …
Maybe, I need to call Bode. He’s always good for advice.
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Kiel Christianson:
While Daddy "Mac"Donald says its time to test for steroids, I don't think it's an issue. For all the added distance you may get from 'roids, your "roid rage" will counter it and your concentration will be shot. Anyone who plays enough knows 300 versus 310 yard drives don't make the difference, 27 versus 31 putts per round do. The money used to test for drugs on tour would be better spent either promoting a continued clean, gentlemanly game of golf, or just marketing Michelle Wie...
here's a link to some common side effects of steroids -- the reason in the first place its ILLEGAL and also banned.
http://sportsci.org/encyc/anabstereff/anabstereff.html
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As I wrote here, the danger of steroids in golf is not really about extra length off the tee. You're right, Brandon, 300 vs. 310 is not that big of a deal. But steroids can (or DO?) help pro golfers artificially recover from the nagging aches and pains that will slow them down over the course of the season (especially the older guys).