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First and foremost, weekends off are awesome. They should come around more often.

It's been a whirl-wind sports weekend, with baseball slipping further out of people's minds as football season begins and 80% of everyone's favorite teams are now basically out of contention. Including mine.

So, what happened this weekend... Oh, it looks like Troy Glaus and Jay Gibbons received some steroids and HGH. Sweet.

I think we should prepare ourselves for some sort of meltdown. Your favorite player, my favorite guy? Maybe he's taken HGH in the past. Maybe he doesn't speak great English and was confused by a steroid prescription, or something.

Maybe, he's just a dirty cheater and shot juice into his veins to get an edge in the game.

Whatever the case, it seems names are starting to come out of the woodwork involved with this Florida pharmacy investigation.

Gibbons received six shipments of HGH, two shipments of testosterone and two shipments of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) between October of 2003 to July 2005 -- after both substances were banned by baseball. The "after" part, sadly makes him a cheater, so there will be no victimizing the Baltimore Orioles outfielder here. Gibbons enjoyed his best season in 2003, before taking the substances, when he hit .277 with 23 homers and 100 RBIs.

Toronto's Glaus received multiple shipments of nandrolone and testosterone, all between September of 2003 and May 2004, also an underhanded move. But he sucks anyhow, so really... who cares besides the players on his team that didn't make the All-Star game those four years he did.

These two, including Rick Ankiel, are the latest athletes to be linked to Signature Pharmacy for illegally getting prescription medications.

They certainly will not be the last.

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