Posted on 09/26/2022 11:21:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Steroids would change which pitcher would risk throwing you one.
Most Red Sox pitchers challenged Judge—and he had a few “near misses” (long fly balls) as well as a couple of doubles.
I am not that worried about teams pitching around him at this stage of the season.
I’d like to see Aaron Judge do it. Not sure what it would mean though. The game is so different these days relative to Ruth’s days.
I cannot believe the lame Yankees announcers even dared to compare Judge to the steroid “record holders”.
Boooooo!
He’s juiced. Then again, the pitchers probably are, too.
If you’ve followed the bouncing ball since the Lance Pharmstrong debacle, you might have figured out that every sport on the planet (including professional badminton) is still doped to the gills, and getting away with it because they have adulterants and masking agents to make whatever they’re taking undetectable. I noticed more evidence of that fact earlier this year in the results of the Tour de France.
Pharmstrong’s winning average speed in the 2005 Tour de France was 41.6 kilometers/hour (the fastest of his seven “wins”), and we know to a certainty he was doped. The 2022 winner’s average speed was 42.1 kph. So if they had cleaned the sport up, it should be slower now, yeah? But it isn’t, it’s faster.
But that’s not the telltale sign. The telltale is the speed of the LAST place finisher. The 2022 TdF’s LAST place finisher averaged 39.6 kph. That makes him faster than every WINNER of the Tour de France before 1998 (except 1992, which Pharmstrong won, until he didn’t).
So now the LAST PLACE rider is faster than when the greats like Eddy Merckx and Greg Lemond won.
And this year there were this many positive doping tests at the TdF: 0.
You might be thinking that cycling is a whole different sport from baseball, so they wouldn’t dope the same. It is a different sport but the approach to doping now is one of minimal gains. Take everything that helps, even if it’s only a little. And a lot of littles add up. So they’re all taking EPO, anabolic steroids, human growth hormones, peptide, and ketones. What differs from one sport to the next is the amount of each. Cyclists, for instance, only take tiny doses of testosterone for faster muscular recovery. Baseball players take larger doses of testosterone for better arm strength and bat speed.
And the Tour de France is the most undeniable example that they’re doping with impunity, and only rarely ever get caught.
The expression they use in cycling is, “You can’t fail the drug test unless you first fail the IQ test.” In other words, it you got caught, it was because you did something stupid. It’s that cut-and-dried, and that easy a test to thwart.
Many variables like the baseball is different, the bat is different, the stadium designs, the length of the fence, the height of the pitchers mound, players training better.
Babe Ruth did his best pitching and hitting after eating hot dogs and drinking lots of alcohol.
Also the number of games per season.
Agree! They might be mentioned in a footnote regarding MLB records, as long as their drug use is included.
Sorry, that should have been "marginal" gains, non "minimal."
Take everything that helps, even if only a little bit, and take as much of everything as you can and still escape detection. In some cases the limit has a threshold (like hematocrit, or caffeine [yes, the World Anti-Doping Agency {WADA} has a caffeine limit]), so you can take it, but only so much before getting popped.
There are over 400 pitchers in the MLB.
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