An ongoing investigation into the traffic in steroids and HGH (human growth hormone) has yielded some unexpected names, according to reports in the New York Times and elsewhere. Rather than the usual litany of fair-to-middling baseball players, the most frequently cited figures in the latest probe are entertainers -- specifically, rappers like 50 Cent, Timbaland, and (inexplicably) Mary J. Blige. We're not the only ones to be a bit stymied at why a musician would need to take 'roids; while, admittedly, they're cheaper than a personal trainer if you want to hulk out the way Timbo has of late, a personal trainer can only symbolically shrivel your generative organs while shouting motivational slogans at you, rather than literally causing them to curl up and wither on the vine the way steroids can.
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