A-Roid.

Wow. Performance enhancing drugs. Why do people do it? For a variety of reasons.

As much as I love pro wrestling, I am not about to risk my livelihood messing with that stuff. Have I ever taken steroids? No. HGH? No. I have taken supplements that you can buy from GNC when I first started working out. Protein powders and amino acids were all I ever took. I have been off of supplements for about two years now. Why did I stop using them? Listen carefully....

Whenever you read a supplement ad, look on the bottom. In the fine print, you will see something that say something like "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration....". Why is that? We all know supplements are not food. When the manufacturers are asked if they are drugs, they say no. When they are asked what supplements are, they respond by saying they "cannot be clearly defined". If someone makes a product that you ingest and cannot define it as either a food or drug, why in the fuck would you want to put it in your body? And these are the legal supplements we are talking about!

Sports culture is big in this country. Now, so is supplemental culture. MMA is starting to make waves. Through the pages of MMA mags, there are supplement ads. In every field of competition, every athlete is looking for an edge, a shortcut, or a little boost. Even on the indy level, some of the most well-known wrestlers are jacked-up roid monsters.

What message does this send to the kids? Work kind of hard, pop a few pills, and you too can be a star? Hey, this is just my opinion, folks. I know I can't stop guys from doing roids. It just pisses me off that taking performance enhancers - as dangerous and life- threatening and life-shortening as they can be - has become acceptable. It unevens the playing field and tarnishes accomplishments. It sucks. And thanks to A-Rod, Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and a bunch of other guys, America's past time has become a joke.