"Steroid Testing" - Baseball Still Stinks to Me.Posted Nov-23-07 14:43:56 PST Even with this "steroid testing" going on, MLB still smell rotten to me. Too many Ruthian seasons. Where did Albert Pujols come from? His rookie year nobody heard of him and five minutes later he is Ruth, Mantle & Ted Williams rolled into one very large player. I don't recall players of the 60's 70's & 80's being as wide as Pujols, Sosa, Ryan Howard, Giambi... Did anybody notice how wide Javy Lopez was 2 years ago when he hit 40 something HR's? Adrian Beltre also. How many super human performances have we witnessed in the past FEW seasons. Randy Johnson. Roger Clemens. Obviously Barry Bonds & the like. Where were these type performances the 40 years prior. One guy comes to mind - Koufax. Now there are 4 or 5 Koufax types. Willie Mays was one of the 3 or 4 greates players of all time. Until the steroid era of course. Now Luis Gonzalez is Willie Mays. AROD is statistically much greater than Mays. Gianbi was on pace to be Mays offensively. Pujols is much greater. Ryan Howard (is somebody kidding me with this guy? - 27 years old and all of a sudden he's Babe Ruth also?) I wonder what Ted Williams would have done while on HGH (once they started testing for steroids of course). How about Bruce Bochy? How big would his head have gotten if he were juiced. If memory serves, his head was (probably still is) pretty big to begin with. Imaging Dick Allen on steroids. or Willie McCovey. What a bunch of suckers these guys were to be playing the sport honestly. Will Barry Bonds' head shrink after he retires? Seriously... whats gonna happen to his head? Does it shrink back to pre juice size or will it stay that way. Which will look pretty dumb when the rest of him coincidently shrinks after retirement. Baseball as it is now stinks.
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