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  1. mul21
    Cubs are 41-42 since April 23 (they started 5-13). Man, if they'd been able to win even 4 of those games in that 12 game losing streak, they'd be 50-51.
  2. mul21
    Nothing like getting bent over when you completely jam a guy.
  3. mul21
    Not true. Amphetamines were made illegal without a prescription in 1965. So, they were in fact illegal for over half of Aaron's 23 years in MLB. And why do you get to be the arbitrator of all that is or isn't okay in terms of PEDs?
  4. mul21
    That actually would probably work pretty well since they're sliding Melancon into the closer role and will need a set up guy to fill his slot. What do they have that would be worth it? And do they need OF help as well?
  5. mul21
    Who cares how many games they win in the regular season? I want them to build a team that can win in the playoffs. BOOM. Meatball one-upped! =D>
  6. mul21
    Neither Coleman nor Rosscup are on the 40 man. I'm curious to see if Cabrera looks good for a few weeks in Iowa out of the pen if he gets a shot some time in August since he's already on it.
  7. mul21
    You were right the first time. It's $5M next year and the prorated portion of $5M of the $18M he was due this year.
  8. mul21
    The waitress is holding it with the hand you can't see.
  9. mul21
    Let's just go ahead and ignore the fact that the only OF spot Vitters can play is LF while Lake is in the process of showing he can play anywhere in the OF. Also, I don't get the Vitters hate, but he's certainly not as valuable as Lake if they hit exactly the same.
  10. mul21
    Gah, yeah, that was horrible.
  11. mul21
    So what happened to all the hand wringing about Klinsmann sending messages to people? Was it effective or coincidence?
  12. mul21
    Um yeah that's what roids do. Sometimes. Horse steroids do. What year did Bonds's head get big. That was the year I thought he started. Maybe before 2002. It's pretty well documented that he started taking them after the 1998 season because he was pissed Sosa and McGwire were getting all the attention when he thought he was a far superior player to them. He started juicing out of his mind at that point and turned into the incredible Hulk.
  13. mul21
    Bo Jackson says hi.
  14. mul21
    We have the physical evidence on Bonds, not Aaron. I give people the benefit of the doubt. Same for Pujols. You have no "physical evidence" because nobody was looking and testing, yet you've had people in the game talk about how PED usage goes back decades. Of course. But has anyone accused Aaron and seen him take them? No, so I give him the benefit. We know ARod took them. I'm not keeping anyone out of the HOF with no evidence, steroid era or not. You said yourself he admitted to taking them once and we all know that once you go green you never get clean.
  15. mul21
    So then you have a theory as to how many more he hit because of them? Outside of his one crazy season, bonds managed to tack on about 7-10 from his best pre-usage power seasons, and he was one of the greatest hitters of all time. Shaving off about 10 home runs from each of McGwire's big power/full/full-ish/around 100 games played seasons still has him around 450 home runs for his career. You're really saying that the guy hit most of the home runs in his career simply because of PEDs? I don't think you can really use Bonds' HR totals as a baseline since he was getting pitched to about once every 4 or 5 PAs.
  16. mul21
    You're on a very slippery slope when you're using examples of past players who almost certainly were using greenies like they were candy. Greenies at the very least. PEDs as we know them have basically existed since WW2, and really took off in sports in the 60's. That people willfully act like PEDs outside of speed weren't around prior to the late 80's are just flat out wrong. Yeah, but that whole old school baseball mentality that extra muscle would slow your swing/pitches down makes me think that it would be a much slower adaptation to use in baseball. You don't really hear about widespread use in football until the 70s, so even if that's late, I would think the 70s is about the earliest baseball would have seen any significant use.
  17. mul21
    This I have trouble with this in a general sense. You are going to have an increase, but is it completely uniform across the board or is it going to be more of an increase at the top end and then tail off significantly with the fringy talent and guys who aren't using?
  18. mul21
    Is that why they've banned amphetamines as part of the drug program and why we've continued to see a precipitous drop in offensive numbers since they were banned even after steroids were pretty well gone?
  19. mul21
    Hank Aaron used [expletive] PEDs. Regularly. Were they legal? Could anyone legally use them? Um, no, amphetamines have certainly been illegal for a very long time. Just like steroids have been for a very long time.
  20. mul21
    You're on a very slippery slope when you're using examples of past players who almost certainly were using greenies like they were candy. And TT, you're certainly correct about you examples, I guess I was looking at it in a much more general sense (i.e. not really specific players) with a pretty heavy emphasis on HRs and not WAR numbers.
  21. mul21
    Tell that to Bonds who only became once in a generation after he took them. PED's made multiple once in a generation players (Bonds, Sosa, ARod). None of those guys would have been that good without them. Bonds and ARod were going to be clean HOFers, but we'll never know for sure. Oh my. This is delicious. Bonds' line through 1998: .290 .411 .556 .966 164 OPS+ 411 HR 99.6 WAR Yeah, I think we know for sure. I think Bonds is a tough example to use because he was so good all around and would have obviously been a sure fire HOFer without the cream and the clear. But you certainly can't deny he wouldn't have ever become even a 50 HR guy without them.
  22. mul21
    Tell that to Bonds who only became once in a generation after he took them. PED's made multiple once in a generation players (Bonds, Sosa, ARod). None of those guys would have been that good without them. Holy smokes are you comically wrong about this. No he's not. All of those guys would have been really good players but none of them, especially Bonds and his comically ridiculous seasons, would have put up anywhere near the numbers they did. I mean seriously, go look at the post in another thread talking about Rich Aurilia hitting 37 HRs and the top 9 guys in the MVP voting averaging 49 HRs.
  23. mul21
    Your point stands for sure, but that isn't the greatest example. He was getting significantly penalized for playing in Coors and it being like a little league park at that point. He would have gotten a whole lot more votes if he played in Wrigley or Busch and put up those numbers.
  24. mul21
    He's one of SCS' favorites. Other than that, no, I know nothing other than he did well in the DSL when he was way too old for it.
  25. mul21
    He's already rehabbing in double A. This was a guy that was supposed to miss the whole year and probably be done with his career, and now he'll undoubtedly be pitching game 1 of the World Series. Not so fast my friend....... http://www.ksdk.com/rss/article/389513/3/Carpenter-describes-the-numbness-that-has-returned
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