Is that so? And you know this how? Have you surveyed every player in the Mitchell Report? So you really think Barry Bonds didn't really want to suddenly double his home run output, he just wanted better "recovery capabilities". How utterly ridiculous. Exactly which rules have changed? The rules about steroids haven't changed, the rules about cheating haven't changed. Cheating is cheating. Using steroids is no different than using a corked bat or scuffing the baseball. It's cheating. That's not what I said. I said the difference is a ball that gets caught and a ball that goes over the fence.
Yep, it was Ted Williams. My father was in the stands at Fenway Park the day Ted Williams hit his last home run. I heard the story about a zillion times when I was growing up ...
the Mitchell report was a joke. Steroids/PEDs aren't anything magical. Again, your cherry picking a player who was already a cream of the crop hitter before using any drug. Majority of players DO NOT have the genetics Barry (or any other of the top HR hitters) have. Take any average player in the league right now, put him on what Barry did - and i'll guarantee he'll still be an average baseball player at the end of his career. if you don't think enhancing there recovery capabilities is a primary concern, then you don't understand the stress a baseball season puts on the body, and you also don't understand the time commitment that must be put in to get huge like Barry did and still being able to recover to play a full season of baseball - which goes into you not understanding how a player that does not have the genetic potential that Barry had will not be the type of player Barry was. the rules on steroids will change, only if for the reason these sports want to continue raking in billions $. So another HR hit when it should have been an out will not effect a batters hitting average or ability to have a long hitting streak? what you're saying is that instead of a batter going 1 for 4, he'll now go 2 for 4 (or 0/4 --> 1/4 or many other combos) because of that extra home run that would have been an "out" had they not been on any steroids/PED.
I'm going a little off topic here.--When you look at pro- baseball players that played 20+ years ago(for the most part before all the steroids were used by many of them),most of them were slim,in shape often with a 'naturally' athletic build.-- Then a few years later, when alot of them started using steroids they got big,heavy with 'artificial muscles' as I call it.--Some of them looked like freaks.---Nowadays supposedly alot less of them are using steroids,and I noticed alot of these players have become out of shape,even fat,flabby,you all get the picture.--What the heck happened to these players.Alot don't even look remotely like athletes anymore.
