[stockstrader]

Why in the world would you make that outrageous assumption that the WHOLE LEAGUE is juicing? The whole league?....lol No wild assumptions there....(rolling eyes)
Just because the numbers are way up, the whole league,,,,EVERYONE?

Geeez,,,,,did it ever occur to you that ONLY the top home runs hitters might cause that big increase (Sosa, Bonds, McGuire, Palmeiro and a few others) because of THEIR juicing and not the whole league? The WHOLE LEAGUE? Heck, if the whole league is juicing no problem then--because Bond's cheating is NOT giving him any advantage, right?...lol

[cincinnati65]

I was demonstrating the absurdity of the argument by being absurd. The fact is that the number of total home runs during those time spans outpaced the rate of growth of Bonds's home run growth. If the only way that Bonds increase his home run totals by that much was through "juicing" and "cheating", then the whole league must be juicing and cheating.

For the 1993-1997, Bonds accounted for 2.02% of all home runs hit in the National League. For 1998-2002, he accounted for 1.71% of the total. That includes his 73 home run season of 2001!

The fact is that during this timeframe the TOTAL number of home runs hit in the National League grew DRAMATICALLY! That wasn't just Sosa, McGwire, and Bonds. It was across the board.

If you follow others' reasoning on this thread, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that the whole League was juicing.

[cincinnati65]

Further, the average number of home runs per year for the first time frame was 1957.6/year; the second, 2802.6/year. Now, surely you're not implying that little old Bonds, Sosa, and McGwire accounted for an extra 845 homeruns per year!