Poll - Greatest Living Player

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Suppose he used them previously specifically to recover from an injury. How is that different from Koufax getting his elbow shot up every time he pitched?

That's a lot more nuanced, isn't it. Even in Koufax's day, doctors had concerns about cortisone causing further damage to the joints. It wasn't illegal, but maybe it was unethical. You can make similar points about steroids, there are adverse affects from long term use, which is why they are restricted to prescription use.

Steroids turned out to be much more useful than cortisone, however, and should have been regulated by Selig early on. Instead, he implicitly condoned them, which allowed baseball home run records to become a farce.

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