With all due respect ...

... you really have no idea:

"The testosterone creams and lozenges, the human growth hormone, the IGF (insulin-like growth factor), the pregnenolone (steroid that may hide the use of anabolic steroids), the clomiphene (fertility drug also used to increase testosterone levels), the DHEA and the GHRP 2/6 (banned hormones said to increase output of HGH, and all the rest of A-Rod's complex drug regimen amounted to what the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Wednesday called 'the most potent and sophisticated drug program developed for an athlete that we've ever seen.'

And that includes Lance Armstrong's sophisticated protocol."

Popping a bunch of pills on a schedule now qualifies as sophisticated. The pills that gave Alex Rodriguez the immense power to hit baseballs to the warning track.


"We have ever seen" seems to be the key phrase.


World War II, a mathematician was charged with developing the most efficient armor for fighter planes. The initial study involved examining the bullet holes on the planes. Seems obvious. Put the armor in the places where planes get hit the most.

But, no.

These were the planes that made it back.

The planes that got shot down? We can't study their bullet hole patterns.

The answer is in the data we can't see. The planes that made it back survived the attack. The planes that didn't make it back needed to be strengthened. So the armor needs to go where we don't see the bullet holes, ensuring maximum protection.


It should go without saying, but here it is, anyway.

The most sophisticated doping regimens are precisely the doping regimens that are evading your detection.