John Chasey of San Jose, Calif. waves a rubber chicken after San Diego Padres' starting pitcher Brian Lawrence walked San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds during the third inning in San Francisco, Tuesday Sept. 13, 2005.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Posted on 09/19/2005 11:02:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Bush/Rove conspiracy ...
John Chasey of San Jose, Calif. waves a rubber chicken after San Diego Padres' starting pitcher Brian Lawrence walked San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds during the third inning in San Francisco, Tuesday Sept. 13, 2005.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Time to bring the fences in a few yards?
drop prices amnd move the fences out further. :)
Finally, pitching is coming into vogue?
'bout damn time too.
enough of these 23 - 2 games
nuf to make a manager commit hari kari at the 7th inning stretch, well in Japan at least ;-)
No Steroids = Fewer Home Runs
Speaking of Bonds does anyone think he would have been back sooner if there was no testing this year? LOL
That's the obvious knee-jerk unthinking reaction, of course.
Quite a number of PITCHERS have been busted for 'roids this year. People are mistaken if they think only power hitters are using 'roids.
I'd submit that one of the single greatest contributors of the decline is the use of RFK stadium, replacing Montreal's Olympic stadium (and what people forget is the many games the Expos were playing in a bandbox stadium in Puerto Rico.
It's been found the power alleys of RFK are an incredible 390 feet.
He's only tied in second place with 44 homers. Banged another one tonight, but we still lost by one run. Ortiz is also leading in RBI with 136.
Manny Ramirez might be having a little home run slump, ONLY 36, but he's tied for 3rd in RBI with 125.
Trying to kill the sport, eh? (grin)
Baseball is at it's best during great pitching duels. Nothing like it.
I don't know about anyone else but I see a big change (for the better)in umps calling balls and strikes. They are actually getting really close to calling the strike zone as it should be but in the past wasn't.
Amen!
If I have to apologize to Canseco I may have to shoot myself...
If you read the article, you'll find that some of those knee-jerk unthinking folks are the players themselves.
Sometimes a duck is in fact a duck.
I hazily recall seeing stories a while back saying that 'roid use didn't benefit pitchers as much as hitters. Maybe someone else has a link . . .
Exercise: count the number of "power hitters" who are saying that they need to drop a few pounds for next season "to get a bit faster" or some such excuse. I'm betting it will be more than a few.
Personally, I think all of the home run records in the past ten years probably need to be thrown out. Not that they will, of course . . .
I can't believe it took to the 10th post to say it. I love baseball but it seems the last 10 years' records should all hasve asterisks next to them.
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