[perez24]

I don’t pretend to know much about amphetamines, or steroids for that matter, so there might be a perfectly sane reason for me being wrong on this, but I’ll ask anyway.

If amphetamines help to keep me awake or give me energy, doesn’t that put me in a better position to play a day game after a night game or maybe the 11th straight game in the middle of August or even to play after a cross-country flight in the middle of the night?

[carton253]

Tony Perez - a class act. One the Reds traded him... the Big Red Machine was no more. Sad day!

[Mr. Mojo]

If amphetamines help to keep me awake or give me energy, doesn’t that put me in a better position to play a day game after a night game or maybe the 11th straight game in the middle of August or even to play after a cross-country flight in the middle of the night?

One could say the same thing about coffee. But neither are actual performance enhancers -- unlike anabolic steroids they don't make one stronger, faster, and quicker. .....and their effects are temporary.