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Redbean,

HGH is extremely affordable. There's a Chinese firm that provides it for $15,000/year or so.

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I took synthetic growth hormone because of a deficiency when I was younger and it was pretty expensive. I'm pretty sure that it was >$10k per shipment (UPS didn't cool it correctly once, I'm sure they had a lot of fun with the insurance company) with them coming every couple of months or so. Real HGH comes from cadavers (dead people), and is more expensive. I had a prescription though, so the co-pay something stupid like $20. Still that's not too much money for a pro baseball player, especially if he's evading taxes [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

After looking at players' numbers from the 1990s, I'm sure that most would agree that if Bond wasn't the BEST player of the decade, then he'd certainly be in the top 2 or 3. Looking at his numbers then, I think you'd be hard to find anyone arguing that Bonds' achievements were due to steroid use. Yet during this period there was no steroid testing in baseball, and former player's account that steroid use was out of control. But Bonds was still the best. When he "leveled the playing field" so to speak, he simply went from being the best- to being a "god".

That's assuming he took steroids.