Baseball Has a Steroid Problem... Again 

“Damn this protein shake is good. What’s in it?” “Tren”

Even if you want to say he’s innocent, this incident still proves one thing. He is extremely careless, everything from the motorcycle accidents to this drug testing issue proves that he puts himself before the rest of his team, and the rest of the team will suffer again because of it.

I hadn’t thought of it this way and there’s a damn good chance you’re right. The pharmacies are the same in Colombia. You go and describe or show symptoms and they’ll give you something. I asked for nasal spray once and ended up getting a spray that was just saline. So the next time I had to ask very specifically for congestion. Now Spanish is more native to Tatis than me, but it’s quite easy to believe he walked into a pharmacy showed them his neck and they gave him a spray. The biggest error is not telling the team doctor. I can’t put myself in his millionaire shoes, but I’m an idiot guy too, I could easily see myself getting a spray and using it without thinking twice, because who would think that a skin spray would contain steroids. But when you’re at his level, that phone call to the team doctor has to be placed.

Thanks man. The Tatis situation felt different from past suspensions, I'm glad someone with a following put in some time to explain how and why.

I would love a tier list of steroid excuses in sports lol

Crazy how far this channel has come. From a highlight type channel to a great commentary/reporting channel. Keep it up dude 👍

I have never been a baseball fan but generally a sports fan. When i saw one of your videos for the first time (as well as Jomboys breakdowns) its become one of my favourite sports to learn about/watch, keep up the good work and thanks

Not sure about the rest of you guys; but when I was 20-26 I had absolutely mastered making at best questionable decisions on a daily basis. We expect these young guys to have the judgement and maturity level equal to their extraterrestrial level athletic abilities. Not saying he’s not selfish or negligent, clearly he has been, but I can definitely relate to having bad judgment at that age.

Important to point out that while nba players were tested half as many times on average, the nba season is almost exactly half as many games as the mlb season

Your videos have been so good lately. I love the consistently fast pace without sacrificing the information in the story. Love the direction you're going with the channel, keep up the good work!

As a Padres fan this may be a blessing in disguise. He gets the shoulder surgery now and who knows if he even would've been a healthy, productive version of himself this year. He broke his wrist and those who come limping into the season always come limping out of it

"Known to slow down bone healing" Tatis wrist injury typically takes 3 months to heal and at the time he was suspended, he was already at 5+ months in the healing process

This channel is the sole thing that made me refall in love with baseball, the sport I loved most as a little kid.

The More Plates More Dates disclaimer was hilarious

The problem with baseball, as with many other sports is the people "in charge" of testing have zero incentive to find anything. The League only cares about viewership and thus did nothing when drugs were allowing players to hit more runs, get more bases and basically make a more exciting game. If nothing else the fact the punishment for getting caught is only a suspension of games and not banning from the sport is a good sign they don't really care.

It is a true testament to the quality of your channel that someone such as myself who has zero interest in the game of baseball, finds these videos so entertaining. Goes to show that while the game isn’t for everyone, drama is always interesting.

Keep up the great work joey. Big fan of the podcast as well

I’m not a huge baseball fan but your videos are so good I never miss one. Keep it up!

Testing really doesn't matter. The lack testing probably would make it easier to get caught because juicers might get lax in their usage and not take the precautions to not test positive. Then they suddenly get tested after all the no-testing. They'd be like "oh shit! I didn't take the diuretic." The test can be passed easily if you take an organic diuretic. (Organic diuretic is undetectable.) The increase flow of urine, dilutes the urine. The way testing is done is only a urine test initially. If you test negative for banned substances, there is no more testing. IT'S THAT SIMPLE! With this system of testing and the player is using an organic diuretic, they only way you can get caught is if you are tested right after dosing.

I’ve been a light sports fan and never really got into baseball but I found your channel about a week ago and it’s slowly getting me into the sport, love the videos man.

At the highest level of sports PED’s will always exist. For example mma fans make me laugh when they talk about USADA when we know for a fact a huge percentage of the roster is on something. Also, what happened to failed drug tests these days, we rarely hear of them.

As a Padres Season Ticket Holder. I’m still rocking with Tatis. I’ve seen the kid stay after games many times to sign stuff for kids. Everyone makes mistakes, he deserves an opportunity to move on from this. I don’t want to see any of these critics rooting for him next year

the Melky Cabrera thunder clip effect at 5:38 was hilarious. For those who don't know he got shook from the sound of thunder after the pitch

The amount of research it took to make this is amazing

I’m not really a baseball fan but I find the content that you make super interesting. Had no idea that the pro baseball world could be this wild!

I swear, Baseball Doesn't Exist has got to be one of the best baseball channels on RU-vid if not THE best! Keep the videos coming, they're outstanding in their research and the clips you use. Brilliant!

2:12 That is the most excited baseball player I think I’ve ever seen

If you are a multi million dollar athlete who has a world class training staff at your disposal, how could you possibly "accidentally" take anything? If I knew my season and my livelihood was on the line, I would run EVERYTHING by my training staff before taking ANYTHING. It's ridiculous, his GM was beside himself and spoke to Tatis' lack of maturity. This is yet another example of the San Diego Padres not being ready to be winners on an organizational level.

I still think it was a poor choice to vilify the 'steroid era players' of the 90's and early 2000's as much as the media and some fans did considering the history of it in the sport (as well as other sporting leagues). If a player gets caught with a banned substance in their system, suspend them, and move on. The MLB has never fully recovered attendance-wise, viewership-wise, and their reputation since that era. Baseball fans have a bad habit of romanticizing the game so much in their head on how it should be played and how it 'use to be', but then forget there was weird and nutty shit happening in every era of the sport that doesn't make any decade more or less moral than the other

You're my favorite sports youtuber right now. Every video you make is a banger. Please never stop these types of videos!!!

damn this is the last of your commentary videos i have not watched :( CHEERS to all yr hard work

My favorite RU-vid channel. Keep making high quality content. Thanks! Need merch 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm from DR and I played professional baseball, and now, 5 years later after watching this video, I think I took peds but I didn't know!!! Now I'm thinking about it 🤔 and yea i improved a lot, I was told it was a "vitamin B" 🤣 this is a serious problem.. About Tatis, I believe in his history because: #1 he took one of the worst. #2 his father, an Ex-MLB player who took peds too, have enough information to give the best one and hide it, not the worst which barely improves the performance and #3 Tatis always was seen like an irresponsible child who always was taken dumb decisions, isn't weird that he never listened to the couchs and doctors, for me it's not a surprise, IMHO

Every athlete should be responsible of what goes into their body

Performance enhancers are extremely common in all professional sports, it has never gone away. It's pretty common with serious athletes starting in high school. Even the testing protocols from the different leagues are made extremely lenient (intentionally), to where as you would have to mess up pretty badly to get caught. If you have ever played in a major professional sport or worked for one of the teams, you would get a better picture of the reality. Between the MLB, NBA, and NFL - I would say about 98% are enhancing in one way or another that would technically be against the rules (but most could still pass the testing). Let's be honest - it's all about the money to the teams and athletes. The better the athletic output, the more money to be made. Drug testing is strictly to keep the every day fan believing everything is being done completely naturally. You can't just deny enhancers are being used, it's pretty obvious. But you can't tell the truth, you don't want to inspire generations of youth to take dangerous substances. Definitely a conundrum.

They should adopt the Pro cycling testing protocols. When not at an event, those cyclists can be tested on 2 hours notice any day of the year. They have to provide their whereabouts for everyday of the year in advance and there is a notification window of change in location - they can't change locations last minute. During events, they can get tested anytime. They have even woken competitors up at 6am for testing during the Tour de France. Procyclists are not unionized, so I am guessing that's what keeps testing standards more in player's favor in the American pro sports.

As always: your content is excellent, but the background music is distractingly loud.

It's a great day when this channel uploads. Quality over quantity. Edit:The Pirates mascot went to prison for selling the team coke? That's a very 80's story.

Amazing work getting actual footage of Tatis crashing that dirt bike at 11:10.

There needs to be an investigation into the 2021 Giants. They went from every player having by far a career year to back to normal as soon as proper steroid testing returned. They also have a bodybuilding manager. I said this was going to happen all last year. They tested nobody during COVID the proper way. Just trusting that the urine the player gives you is their own is a joke way to test

Thank you for your work Joey! Shedding light on a controversial subject.

2 years ago, I realized the speed swing for a HR was 112 mph. This year the mph AVG is 106 mph or less

One time I got a frantic call from a friend that needed a urine sample for his drug recovery. He convinced one of our friends to do it that is super straight edge, in great shape, and it was positive for cocaine. He kept laughing saying he was being pranked because there's no way he can test positive for any type of substance, and the original kid ends up getting dropped from the program, so the next day the kid gets blood work done because he was so mad that he was being accused of "doing that to his friend" and it was completely clean. He says the only thing he drinks besides water is coffee sometimes and a pre-workout when he needs a boost. The point is I hear people doing jail time over these drug tests. How accurate are they? I'm leaning towards thinking that the original kid lied to get out of the program purposely, but idk...its something I still think about a lot lol

The test per season bar cited in the video compares MLB per season to NBA and notes it is half as often. When one season is twice as long as the other in games played, it sort of makes sense they could/would test twice as much, no?

Love ur uploading more. Ur videos are prolly some of my favorite on RU-vid. Jomboy breakdowns and anything u make I watch asap. My mom has even started watching ur vids.

His upload schedule has gotten more consistent, And it's been only 8 days since he last uploaded! That's insane.

MLB has 162 games. NBA has 82 games. The per season makes perfect sense in that aspect.

So there I was minding my own business when I hear TNT by AC/DC coming from my pocket. I wonder why is Grandma calling at this hour? I answer. She says help help I've fallen and I cant get up. I have to go help granny right away, I run out the door and start heading to her place and quickly realize that running is not my best idea as she lives 5 miles away. I try to order an uber but nobody is available. I call for a cab but they don't run to the area. So I decided to throw up my thumb and see what took. Thats when a black van pulled up beside me. Before I knew what was happening they had me in the back with a bag over my head. I tried to ask where they were taking me and they struck me over the head knocking me out cold. When I woke up I was in a hospital in Mexico and I had no idea what was going on. A doctor came over and explained that they found me outside the doors in bad shape and had fixed me up. I asked for a phone to call my family and tell them I was ok and to check in on grandma and he left to get me a phone. That's when I saw it out of the corner of my eye. A bag of blood. Hooked right up to me, I must have needed a transfusion. I squinted my eyes and I was just a ble to make out the donor information label... B. Bonds... And that's how I tested positive. Not my fault

This channel makes me question everything i know about baseball. Me: Tatis and Jose Altuve are cheaters BDE: No he’s not here’s proof. Me: Ok then that makes sense.

"Dominican born players make up 80% of positive tests despite making up only 10% of the league's population" That sentence is structured so similar to a certain something that I wonder if it was intentional.

This is one of the most informative videos I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. Truly a BDE masterpiece.

Judge is on something. He's now hitting over .300 and 20 plus more Hr's than last year and has played about the same amount of games. He also looks just as jacked as all the players back in the day that looked like wrestlers.

Hey bde, I’ve been watching you since your Josh Donaldson vid, I love when you post this type of quality content

I don't ever say this but this channel deserves way more subs. Amazing content as usual brother!

Just so people know, HGH is actually potentially quite devastating to Healing when it comes to tendons and ligaments. Turns out that so is Advil or Ibuprofen basically. So wow hGH can do some amazing stuff and is really bad for many baseball injuries from the thrilling motion at least as most of those will directly involve tendons and ligaments

unfort he def needs some growing up, hopefully this checks him good because he truly is a great player

The night before tatis ban, My Old Man and I went to go see him play on the San Antonio missions vs the rough riders. It was awesome and then the very next day while at the gym I get a notification of his ban 🤦‍♂️

Never tought I'd see Therese Johaug(the norwegian skier) in a baseball video.

This whole situation reminds me of the late great Australian cricket star, Shane Warne, getting banned for a year from cricket in 2003 for taking a diuretic, which could be used as a masking agent for other PEDs...hence why, at the time, it was on the banned list. Subsequently, it was shown that what he took wasn't strong enough to mask any steroids or anything else...so it was taken off the banned list. He told the authorities he got it from his mother, who told him it helped with fluid retention. He accepted the ban at the hearing saying that although the substance wasn't technically a PED, he should have known better and checked with the team doctor that what he was about to take was on the ban list. Same with Tatis Jr here. If his story is true, he should have checked with the team doctor that what he was taking was legit. And the ban is punishment for not checking, assuming that he's not lying. If he is lying and he was taking PEDs then, that's a different story.

I recently learned that I had ringworm on both feet, went to the drugstore, and used it. The next day Tatis got suspended and I passed a drug test

Tatis didn't break his wrist in a motorcycle accident. He broke his wrist punching an uber driver in the face while he was intoxicated. They ended up paying the driver off and came up with the motorcycle alibi!

Would love to see one about minor leaguers and their pay and living conditions

It DOES make sense, it adds bat speed which adds to your power increasing your HR's. Barry Bonds used the excuse he didn't know what his personal trainer was injecting him with. Every single one of these Dominican players run back home the day the season ends and starts using again to get ready for the next season. Some even invite teammates who not surprisingly seem to be "bigger" at the start of the next year. Steroids are legal in all of these Latin countries so I'm not surprised to hear most players run there to prepare for the next season. The only reason why the MLB stopped testing was COVID, they didn't want to lose fans because their favorite player might get caught and have to be suspended for some time.

BDE is back! Keep up the good work 🔥🔥🔥⚾️⚾️⚾️

I don't follow a single sport, and I've been to exactly three mlb games, but I watch these religiously. Great channel.

I don’t even watch baseball but I watch every one of your vids, keep it up

5:25 aint no way💀💀💀💀💀💀 aint no way that the guy i saw playing at the national dominican baseball league actually did that💀💀

steroids users are usually Dominican

I’m old enough to have been able to watch about half of the career of Barry Bonds, and it was a ton of fun watching that man. I wouldn’t say I’m “pro-PED” but I can’t deny that those juiced up guys played some very exciting baseball

2:44 "the biggest PED scandal in sports history" Lance Armstrong: 🤣🤣🤣

Your videos rock man! I hope to get that good someday.

Love to see the uploads more often! Keep up the grind

I recently started getting into baseball and I’m addicted to this channel already

to be fair not trusting the team doctor or and doctors is very understandable for him and where he’s coming from lots of doctors in the Dominican republic can be shady at times

80% of postive tests, 10% or the league's population... Why do these ratios sound familiar...

Every year young boys die cuz steroid use in DR, and is just as you said, they had no choice and their couch or management just see them as a gold car for drain money from them. Is very sad, baseball is the national sport in DR and a lot of children had plenty of dreams crushed by poor advise or management cuz steroid use.

when a MLB player is caught with steroids, you can almost assume the player is from Dominican Republic lol

What makes for the best/most ridiculous excuses? When a player tests hot for a banned substance, or when a player gets injured off field doing something stupid and/or prohibited in their contract?

Tatis's hitting numbers have gone south since he came back from his suspension. He's like Ryan Braun - just an ordinary player w/o the 'roids. Shades of Jason Giambi, Albert Pujols, and Miguel Cabrera. Once they get the long-term MEGA-contract, they can get off the 'roids and start to suck.

Bear in mind Tatis Sr was also a known juicer, so cheating runs in the family. Even on the infinitesimally small chance he isn't lying, he has an obligation to not use substances without checking with the team doctor. Shows his immaturity, especially after the motorcycle incident.

It's really funny to me that there are still people who think there are any athletes competing in major sports who aren't on PEDs.

I was in an 80's band called the prevention. We were better than the cure.

Just to clarify: clostebol do be used in a composition with neomicin. While not used to treat ringworm specifically it is used to treat hard-to-heal or ugly eschars/ulcers in general. Neomicin is not an antifungical agent (thus do not work in ringworm, it's made to treat bacteria). The thing is that what's usually keeping lesions from healing instead of getting that ugly is a local secondary bacterial infection/infestation of the lesion. The idea is that the neomicin will drive off the tending bacteria while the anabolic properties of clostebol will stimulate proper muscular and subcutaneous repair in the affected area.

Yep, I tell people all the time they were using peds even back in the early 1900s lol athletes have always looked for ways to get an advantage and that's never changed and never will change

I am not a baseball fan but I love this channel so much. Excellent stuff!

It is very hard to continue to play with a lengthy schedule. Nutrition, Mobility and flexibility, sleep, etc. Demand is high!

See that happened to me, I took an inhaled medication for my asthma and it turned out to be crack.

Any player that had a dad that played in the majors knows that they shouldn't put any substance in their body with out testing it. He stupid if he didn't

Tatis saying he didn’t take peds was like saying Barry bonds was not on drugs

5:32 dude was trying to play 4D chess

Tim Raines most certainly wasn't the only player to carry blow on themselves. He just didn't mind admitting it. 💯

NBA is 100x worse when it comes to steroids and your explanation proves that. Very good video!

I love how different baseball culture is from other sports. Tatis gets caught and everyone is calling him a liar and a cheater. Deandre Hopkins tests positive and everyone is just like “see you week 9”

Tatis had a year to wait for his injury to fully heal when he got popped for this. How is that equal to a player using it to play better at an unfair advantage?! Tatis was rehabbing....not playing.

the discussion of number of tests and how stringent only matters if there aren't known PEDs not on the list for testing .

Always has had a steroid problem. A majority of athletes in every major sport are juicing. It's very easy to pass a test when you're juicing, especially when you have Drs dedicated to helping you pass a test.

Meanwhile, Trevor Bauer is suspended for 4x the number of games from unverified accusations

I got called a racist by guys in my fantasy baseball league when I mentioned the fact that Dominican born players are more likely to get caught using PED's. This was a couple years ago, before this video, but I can't wait to show them these facts

I guess that's why they called him "Rock" Raines. Also, Stan-OZ-o-lol

Your videos just really suck me in and make me want to watch them! Great job as usual!!