Paul Byrd Bought HGH?
Uncategorized October 21st. 2007, 9:41am
Brief Sunday morning tidbits: Huge baseball story – Indians postseason miracle-worker Paul Byrd is being fingered as a purchaser of HGH between 2002-2005, and the San Francisco Chronicle says he used a credit card to do so (why leave a paper trail, man? Come on!) … in regards to college football: yes, Cal is a fraud, wow, LSU is ballsy, and we will no longer be gambling on college football games this year, for the season has just been too wacky … nice of Scott Van Pelt to note that the extra point that wasn’t attempted yesterday at the end of Florida-Kentucky; we will be writing about this Monday (Urban had Florida to cover!) … if you’re looking for a thought-provoking movie to see today because the NFL slate isn’t sexy enough, then we recommend Gone, Baby, Gone (writing about this Monday, too) … Two NFL parlays we like this weekend: to win – Giants, Redskins, Bengals (even though they burned us last weekend), Seahawks and Cowboys (we had a bad dream last night that they not only didn’t cover, but lost), and the second one is Indy -3, Saints -8 and Patriots -16.5. All disclaimers … obviously, we’re picking Boston and Dice-K to win Game seven at home.
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October 21st, 2007 at 10:43 am
He used a credit card because purchasing HGH, in general, with a prescription isn’t and wasn’t illegal, nor was it against baseball rules until a week after his final purchase was made. If you go back in time, I’m sure plenty of MLB players purchased andro from GNC using a credit card, and this has since also been outlawed. In this specific case, obtaining a prescription through a dentist wasn’t the smartest thing to do.
October 21st, 2007 at 11:18 am
Valid points, rant. It was legal to buy it then. I guess there’s no way to find out whether or not he’s been using it now.
October 21st, 2007 at 11:24 am
Before we have to be subjected about your whining about the extra point (and the promise of more on Monday), you please note this excerpt from the NCAA Rule Book, for you see, kicking the extra point was not an option, this was a rule change in 2005:
Opportunity to Score
ARTICLE 2. A try is an opportunity for either team to score one or two
points while the game clock is stopped and is a special interval in a game
which, for purposes of penalty enforcement only, includes both a down and
the “ready” period that precedes it.
a. The ball shall be put in play by the team that scored a six-point
touchdown. If a touchdown is scored during a down in which time in the
fourth period expires, the try shall not be attempted unless the point(s)
would affect the outcome of the game.
It should be noted that this differs from the NFL, where kicking the PAT is indeed required. But not so at the college level.
So please shut up about it.
October 21st, 2007 at 11:29 am
And yes, Cal is a fraud and Oregon lost to them at home. So if a fraud beats you at home you shouldn’t be in the top 10, and thus making room for deserving schools, one of which resides in Lawrence, Kansas.
October 21st, 2007 at 11:35 am
Way to go SF Chronicle. you dug up crap about a pretty much “no-name” Indians Pitcher. Maybe you could get a shrowd of info on the all time home run king Barry Bonds’ steriod use.
October 21st, 2007 at 11:58 am
I predited the Tribe in six. If Chris Mortensen has taught me anything, I wasn’t wrong, my prediction was wrong.
October 21st, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Byrd claiming HGH was prescribed (or whatever):
http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/10/21/update-byrd-says-hgh-was-on-the-level/
October 21st, 2007 at 2:45 pm
It’s interesting that these name keep trickling out one-by-one, with somewhat interesting timing. Ankiel’s name comes up when he’s hitting the crap out of the ball, Byrd comes up when he’s having good postseason success. Certainly these names aren’t coming one-by-one from the sources to the reporters, considering they’re mostly all coming from a small handful of investigations. I know it’s all business, but something just doesn’t seem very “journalistic” when the reporters are sitting on names until a good opportunity to sell papers comes up.
October 21st, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Sick of the HGH talk. And I don’t care if Paul Byrd took it or not. Neither should anyone else.
College football is much more interesting.
I think a Florida LSU rematch could be for a spot in the title game.
BC or VT is going down this weekend. USC and Oklahoma look vulnerable. West Virginia has some tough games left. Oregon as well.
If both teams can keep themselves clean that game could be worth A LOT. We know it will for LSU if they can go unbeaten the rest of the way. Glad to see the Gators back in the top ten where they belong. They are way too good to be ranked number 15.