HOF ballot coming up

[David W]

Originally Posted by HOF Auto Rookies

Good points, it certainly does help with recover and I certainly looked at that route when I got injured. But regardless if you take steroids, doesn't make you better. Matt Lawton, Chuck Knoblauch, it did nothing for them. You still need to have the God given skillsets, and steroids don't change your genetic code or your muscle type fibers, so you still need to be able to see the ball and hit the ball. Does not help optical focal or hand eye coordination.

I was on steroids this spring (prescribed for a torn tendon, prior to surgery this summer). Initial diagnosis was tendonitis, I could not run without limping and having it swell up. I got a steroid shot from the doctor and within 8 hours I was playing basketball, with no pain. This would last for 2-3 weeks, then it would swell. Got a second steroid shot, playing softball, basketball, and soccer - no pain.

That is the benefit of steroids, quick recovery from injuries, including serious ones like mine where the outside tendon in the foot was torn in half and required surgery in June which has taken 5 months to recover from.

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Originally Posted by David W

I was on steroids this spring (prescribed for a torn tendon, prior to surgery this summer). Initial diagnosis was tendonitis, I could not run without limping and having it swell up. I got a steroid shot from the doctor and within 8 hours I was playing basketball, with no pain. This would last for 2-3 weeks, then it would swell. Got a second steroid shot, playing softball, basketball, and soccer - no pain.

That is the benefit of steroids, quick recovery from injuries, including serious ones like mine where the outside tendon in the foot was torn in half and required surgery in June which has taken 5 months to recover from.

Cortisone?

[David W]

Originally Posted by HOF Auto Rookies

Cortisone?

I'm not sure what the steroid was, it was injected into the tendon

[Touch'EmAll]

For whatever its worth, right or wrong.......let them in.......BUT have the proven PHD users collectively in the same room in the Hall and call it the "Steroid Era" time era room.

So they do get in, but kinda sorta have an unseen asterisk by placing them all in same room.

And feel free to let in Roger Maris and Bo Jackson. Talk about famous, they were two of the most famous of all players of their era's.

Jeez, how many TV commercials were made with Bo Jackson? He had the ENTIRE country captivated by his on field talents. He had every kid in America scrambling for his baseball and football cards. If its fame you are after, it doesn't get much more famous than Bo Jackson. Some of the recently voted in ya-hoo's couldn't even hold Bo Jackson's jockstrap, for crying out loud!