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Better team on paper if you are going by name recognition. I don't think you could have made a good statistical argument for the Angels being better than the A's or Rangers that year.

Scientists have determined that hitting a 98 MPH baseball is a superhuman ability. You basically have to be in the 99.7 percentile of hand eye coordination to do it + mechanics. I'd say hand eyed coordination makes them pretty athletic.

I hate the Tigers and all the bullshit narratives that won't stop now.

Both teams are playing outstanding defense so far.

I ****ing hate the Tigers.

I think Boston is going to do it.

Angels can end the Rangers season and that's awesome.

Is there less power or is there less contact? Strike outs are way up. You can't use common sense when discussing data. The evidence shows there is no increase from users and non users. Obviously, it's hard to get a sample without bias and it's not ethical to do a controlled study. It's rather easy to explain. Power is not only generated through the lower body (anybody who has played baseball can testify to this) but baseball is such a mechanically dominated game as well as hand eye coordination. Being beefy up top doesn't help you hit home runs or pitch better.

The conclusion of the thesis was that steroids have no effect on performance, and there is no evidence to the contrary to that.

Will Carroll has a medical background. I didn't say the others were in medicine. If you want more information on the medical effects: http://steroids-and-baseball.com/medical-effects.shtml Sources and detailed explanations

Sacrificing a lot doesn't mean you will have a bad offense, it just means you are suppressing your offensive value. Stealing may or may not be beneficial. But you have to hit above the break even point.

You are missing the point, yk. The article is a bit dated (All the data is still relevant) so it says stuff like this, but if you read carefully instead of trying to cherry pick this is ultimately irrelevant. Also, for people who think steroids can make you super human looking, that's wrong. I think most of these myths come from misconceptions and ignorance about steroids.

I don't get it. Bonds is/has been/still is well conditioned and this doesn't do anything to challenge the numbers.

I am surprised you don't know guys who work in stats and medicine for a living are.

Read between the lines. The implication was it didn't matter either way. The question is did it improve his performance or is the power spike due to random variation and a different ball? Saying the idea sounds crazy does nothing to disprove it.

It would be the appeal to authority if there wasn't countless data I just showed through the link. People often want to get credentials when stuff like this comes out to add validity. And it's also peer reviewed. All important in making conclusions. It is in fact, how we go about disproving everything else in science. Study, find results, conclusion, rinse and repeat. Professor Arthur DeVany Will Carroll (Medical Effects of PED's) Professors Jonathan R. Cole

http://deadspin.com/the-astros-drew-a-0-00-nielsen-rating-1372996857 "It's not as bad as it sounds. The Nielsen numbers are calculated by extrapolating a limited number of meters, in this case 581 of them. So it's more accurate to say that of 581 randomly selected Houston-area households, none tuned into the Astros game. A more significant issue is that most of the Houstonians who want to watch Astros games can't. CSN Houston has been waging a year-long battle over carriage fees. At a stalemate since the channel went on the air last October, it's still not carried on AT&T, Time Warner, DirecTV, and Dish Network. It's available in roughly 40 percent of Houston households."

Eric Walker is anything but asinine. He showed Bonds power spikes and used him as a case study. The power spike isn't as crazy as people believe. There is a reason why this guy has been a consultant for thirty years. Just because you disagree with it because of common sense most likely, doesn't make it asinine. Nothing is common sense in data. Still, ignoring Bonds completely, it's pretty obvious you didn't read the entirety of the article. Or even that part fully. Not only was the spike completely natural, but that was also when they changed the composition of the ball. That explains Bonds completely. Outside of the case study you'd be hard pressed to refute anything in there. How steroids couldn't possibly help with power as they help with upperbody and the power of a swing is generated through your lower body, no variation between users/nonusers, no difference in ERA's other than when they changed the baseball. Eric Walker and every reputable statistician who has ever done work on steroids has found no evidence for them helping.

http://steroids-and-baseball.com/actual-effects.shtml The guy who has made this thesis has worked as a statistician and a consultant for baseball teams for over thirty years. Every other statistician who has done thorough and brilliant work on PED's have found no positive effect or negative.

The movie is really good. It's a retelling of the past, but the movie, unlike the book, is more about how the underdog overcomes.

Our fans aren't fairweather. They just never show up. Win or lose.

His reddit AMA was a fantastic train wreck

Which Ranger fan said after the Rangers beat the A's in a series that the Rangers would run away with the division?

The Oakland Hills are really nice.

I like going to the games... It adds character It does look gross, but going to the games are totally fine. Everyone is really chill.