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More MLB Players Diagnosed With ADD Than Ever Before

Jan 12, 2009 – 1:30 PM
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Eamonn Brennan

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Now that greenies -- those helpful little methamphetamines that make a 162-game season just fly by! -- are actually being taken seriously by Major League Baseball, players are going alternate routes to get their slight competitive advantage.

What? You didn't think they would play the season without some sort of stimulant, right? Sometimes, Red Bull isn't enough.

So baseball players are rushing to their doctors to get prescribed for ADHD, and the numbers are finally in on that little stunt: About seven percent of professional baseball players are diagnosed with ADD and are getting the drugs to prove it; about one to three percent of the U.S. populace is diagnosed with the same condition.

Meaning that either baseball players are more prone to hyperactivity (and really, can you be a baseball player if you can't sit still for a few minutes?) or those same players are using the ADD drugs as greenie-replacing stimulants. My money's on the latter.

Anyway, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency is peeved, and MLB has yet another public drug-related issue on its hands. What year is it? 2009? Good to know some things don't change.
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