Scott Gray (CT) Commentary - Brady Anderson the Steroids Poster Child

[Jagwar]

I heard this sports commentary driving to work this morning on Connecticut WTIC 1080. I just about tried to strangle Scott Gray through the airwaves.

http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2013/08/09/sports-commentary-8913-the-poster-boy/

The pressure under which Anderson entered his first major league season was unfair. Unlike Yaz, he did buckle, and he was shipped to the Orioles, who held the same high expectations and felt they?d come to fruition once Anderson was out from under the intense media scrutiny in Boston. This time when Anderson succomed to the pressure, and the way he responded, would mark the beginning of a dark era in Major League Baseball, which has yet to get out from under the cloud. In 1996 Anderson lived up to his advance billing by hitting 50 home runs. There was only one group of people on the planet that didn?t smell a rat.

Baseball historians, the ones who still care about the integrity of the game, now designate 1996 as the beginning of the ?steroid era?, and Brady Anderson as the poster boy of the dawn of it all.

:angryfire:

[The Wedge]

Do baseball historians REALLY designate that, because I think that's horse hockey. Canseco founded the 40/40 club in 88. And if you ask me Canseco is the poster child.

[Jagwar]

Do baseball historians REALLY designate that, because I think that's horse hockey. Canseco founded the 40/40 club in 88. And if you ask me Canseco is the poster child.

I posted this in the comment section

So... you have proof I assume that Brady Anderson used steroids, right? Because hitting 50 HR in a single season, and never doing it again, is slam dunk positive evidence. And if steroids were responsible for his 50 HR season, did he just decide he wasn't going to use them anymore for the rest of his career?

Hey Scott... by all means, tell us which "baseball historians" have ever gone on record saying that Anderson was the poster child of the steroids era?

[LayzieDES]

Sounds more like Brady kicked his puppy & he has a personal agenda.

[The Wedge]

Somebody should tell him to go look at Roger Maris' stats. The closest HR total in his career to 61 was 39. There were seasons he didn't even get 20. That settles it, Roger Maris is the poster child.

Moron.

[O-The-Memories]

I think by poster child he means that he had a Brady poster in his room as a child, and he never quite get to look like him. What a jerk.

[Spoonless]

Anyone who thinks the steroid era started as late as '96 has some seriously tinted glasses when looking previous to that.

[weams]

Sounds more like Brady kicked his puppy & he has a personal agenda.

I think Briana Mom was Gray's fiancee...

[Gurgi]

I think Davey Johnson is a better canidate for the poster child of steroids. Anyone see what freaking homerun numbers he put up in Atlanta?:scratchchinhmm:

[weams]

I think Davey Johnson is a better canidate for the poster child of steroids. Anyone see what freaking homerun numbers he put up in Atlanta?

Tom House.

[El Gordo]

1971-1978 - Tom House

House said that he used steroids during his eight-year Major League career, though he wasn't specific about which years. House estimated that "six or seven pitchers on every staff were fiddling with steroids or hGH" while he was playing. Tom House also says that steroids were rampant in the 1960's. This comment represents the earliest date that steroids were implicated in baseball. While this time-frame seems reasonable, House was still in the minor leagues at that time.

http://thesteroidera.blogspot.com/2006/08/earliest-accounts-of-steroids-and-hgh.html

[24fps]

1971-1978 - Tom House

House said that he used steroids during his eight-year Major League career, though he wasn't specific about which years. House estimated that "six or seven pitchers on every staff were fiddling with steroids or hGH" while he was playing. Tom House also says that steroids were rampant in the 1960's. This comment represents the earliest date that steroids were implicated in baseball. While this time-frame seems reasonable, House was still in the minor leagues at that time.

http://thesteroidera.blogspot.com/2006/08/earliest-accounts-of-steroids-and-hgh.html

Steroids swept through the SWC football programs (and presumably other conferences as well) during the early-mid '70s. It makes no sense to assume that baseball was somehow magically immune to the allure of increased strength and endurance virtually overnight - the calling card of steroids at the time.

That being said, it would nice if a few more people stepped forward to corroborate House's claims as to the widespread use of steroids during that era.

[Ohfan67]

1971-1978 - Tom House

House said that he used steroids during his eight-year Major League career, though he wasn't specific about which years. House estimated that "six or seven pitchers on every staff were fiddling with steroids or hGH" while he was playing. Tom House also says that steroids were rampant in the 1960's. This comment represents the earliest date that steroids were implicated in baseball. While this time-frame seems reasonable, House was still in the minor leagues at that time.

http://thesteroidera.blogspot.com/2006/08/earliest-accounts-of-steroids-and-hgh.html

Total BS. Human growth hormone wasn't even produced in sufficient quantities to sell until 1985. It's chemical structure wasn't even quantified until 1971. Total garbage.

[Ohfan67]

Steroids swept through the SWC football programs (and presumably other conferences as well) during the early-mid '70s. It makes no sense to assume that baseball was somehow magically immune to the allure of increased strength and endurance virtually overnight - the calling card of steroids at the time.

That being said, it would nice if a few more people stepped forward to corroborate House's claims as to the widespread use of steroids during that era.

House would have needed a time machine to use HGH in the 1970's. either he was misquoted, he's a liar, or just plain confused. The HGH claims are unequivocally not possible. HGH was incredibly difficult to isolate in any quantity until in cell production was developed in the mid 80's.

[WEAVERMAN]

What a complete jerk.