GhostofPotvin29
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Wow...
Chris Colabello suspended 80 games for PEDs
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WhatIfGodWasALeaf
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There has been rumors of it being rife in the Jays room since last season, this will further fuel that talk.
bustaheims
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They certainly haven't helped him much this season . . .
http://www.tsn.ca/jays-colabello-suspended-80-games-after-positive-drug-test-1.476705
I never heard any rumors and frankly rumors are just that, rumors. I don't think it's fair to say because Colabello tested positive that it should reflect anyway on the rest of the Jays.
How is it possible that he would have no idea? He's a professional athlete with a whole fleet of medical experts available to him.
Very disappointing, I was routing for him to turn his game around, a very likeable guy. Why was playing if the league new back in March?
I never heard any rumors and frankly rumors are just that, rumors. I don't think it's fair to say because Colabello tested positive that it should reflect anyway on the rest of the Jays.
How is it possible that he would have no idea? He's a professional athlete with a whole fleet of medical experts available to him.
Very disappointing, I was routing for him to turn his game around, a very likeable guy. Why was playing if the league new back in March?
bustaheims
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L K said:
Yup. Hard to pass this off as something he was taking for a legit reason (like some cough medications that are on banned substances lists), or was a side effect of something else (like what happened with Jose Theodore and his hair loss treatment). If he legitimately doesn't know where it was coming from, it really just means he was ignorant about what he was putting into his body. No doctor would have prescribed this to a professional athlete.
GhostofPotvin29
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Same stuff Phillies pitcher Stumpf was suspended for recently.
bustaheims
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cabber24 said:
Because he appealed the ruling/results. He obviously lost that appeal today.
Pleading his innocence:
dappleganger
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Maybe this explains his poor start to the season, having this hanging over his head.
hockeyfan1
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Not surprised to see another athlete suspended for the use of PEDS, but surprised it was the Jays' Colabello.
The particular PED used is popular as a "recovery" drug:
The performance-enhancing substance that Chris Colabello tested positive for is known to boost recovery time in athletes, not bulk up their size.
"It would help in recovery, that's its main form in this type of sport," said Dr. Stuart Phillips, a professor of kinesiology at McMaster University.
While body builders use the drug to gain a little bit of muscle, Phillips said its benefit for a baseball player would be the ability to recover faster to withstand the rigours of a 162-game season.
Phillips has been at McMaster for 19 years and specializes in the interaction between weightlifting and nutrition.
"Appreciate that a baseball player who flies around the United States and Canada, plays 162 games day in and day out, swings a bat at very high speed I would estimate around 3,000 times in a season ... that creates a tremendous amount of wear and tear on muscles, joints and ligaments," Phillips said. "This substance, if it were to enhance anything, it would help with recovery from all that type of exertion.
"The bottom line is, if he had an enhancement, he recovers a little quicker and essentially comes back a little lighter on his feet the next day."
Colabello said in a statement issued by the MLB Players' Association on Friday that he wasn't sure how dehydrochlormethyltestosterone ended up in his system.
Phillips did say the drug could be taken accidentally.
"That's a hard one to say because it is orally ingested," he said. "If there's an out, if that's the right word, from taking this stuff it is that it could have been in something like that [protein powder or supplements]. But I would imagine that the doses of which it was found [would be] unable to be masked."
http://www.cbc.ca/m/sports/baseball/mlb/ped-chris-colabello-positive-used-recovery-1.3550023
The particular PED used is popular as a "recovery" drug:
The performance-enhancing substance that Chris Colabello tested positive for is known to boost recovery time in athletes, not bulk up their size.
"It would help in recovery, that's its main form in this type of sport," said Dr. Stuart Phillips, a professor of kinesiology at McMaster University.
While body builders use the drug to gain a little bit of muscle, Phillips said its benefit for a baseball player would be the ability to recover faster to withstand the rigours of a 162-game season.
Phillips has been at McMaster for 19 years and specializes in the interaction between weightlifting and nutrition.
"Appreciate that a baseball player who flies around the United States and Canada, plays 162 games day in and day out, swings a bat at very high speed I would estimate around 3,000 times in a season ... that creates a tremendous amount of wear and tear on muscles, joints and ligaments," Phillips said. "This substance, if it were to enhance anything, it would help with recovery from all that type of exertion.
"The bottom line is, if he had an enhancement, he recovers a little quicker and essentially comes back a little lighter on his feet the next day."
Colabello said in a statement issued by the MLB Players' Association on Friday that he wasn't sure how dehydrochlormethyltestosterone ended up in his system.
Phillips did say the drug could be taken accidentally.
"That's a hard one to say because it is orally ingested," he said. "If there's an out, if that's the right word, from taking this stuff it is that it could have been in something like that [protein powder or supplements]. But I would imagine that the doses of which it was found [would be] unable to be masked."
http://www.cbc.ca/m/sports/baseball/mlb/ped-chris-colabello-positive-used-recovery-1.3550023
hockeyfan1
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Colabello interview with SN's Campbell:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/chris-colabello-full-extended-sitdown-jamie-campbell/
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/chris-colabello-full-extended-sitdown-jamie-campbell/
Highlander
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Man I want to believe him, but he may be in deep denial. However it really doesn't make sense knowing he would be tested at camp that he would do such a thing. The problem is we will never ever know and that doubt is like guilt.