Steroids

[Bashbrothers]

The article covers Bonds.

 

...and it mentions that people often have a year that exceeds what they otherwise do normally. 

 

...and it says that Bonds was the victim of a terrible injustice.

 

...and it does absolutely NOTHING to disprove that Bonds used steroids.

 

Furthermore, it goes on to talk about guys that have had that "inexplicable" career year, and how common it is.

 

The problem with this defense of Bonds is the track record of everybody else that had such years and claimed to be clean.

 

McGwire claimed to be clean, and later admits to steroid use over a 10 year period, including his 70 HR season.

 

The other half of your handle's namesake: well, you know

 

Sosa claimed to be clean, and tested positive in 2003. I'm sure he didn't use in the years he was blasting the living sh*t out of baseballs.

 

ARod admits to using in a certain time period. It coincides with his hitting 10 and then almost 20 more HRs than in the season prior.

 

If you don't want to look at anomalies because you feel that they aren't appropriate in a discussion of steroids, that's just picking and choosing to suit your needs.

 

If you think anomalies don't help win WS titles or shatter records, which is where everybody's problems truly lie... well then: they do.

 

Anomalies are important. They are the cases which grab the attention of people. They are the things that give the organization that you root for a title in 1989.

It wasn't trying to disprove whether he used steroids or not.  It was saying whether or not steroids actually caused his spike.

 

[sneaky_flute]

Continued steroid use greatly exceeds what can be achieved in the gym without them. There is a natural limit to how much muscle tissue can be added through exercise. Anyone who has ever undertaken an exercise regimen can tell you about reaching a plateau, beyond which no increase or improvement can be achieved no matter how long or how hard they continue to work out. Continuing to take a chemical that accelerates tissue growth removes that natural restriction. There are limits to what steroids can do as well, but the threshold is much higher.

i realize that, but most baseball players don't become hulking bodybuilder types. barring any hormone disorders, men can get pretty damn big without steroids.

[nate]

Lol... Was this study funded by Barry Bonds?  What a moronic proposition.  Steroids provide a very big advantage... don't believe it?  Just compare numbers.