February 15, 200917 yr I believe that Bud Selig is the one to blame on this issue. The season that the ball was flying out of the ball park as we watched Sosa and McGuire vie for the most homeruns, he had to know that the players were using performance enhancing drugs. Position players went from hitting 15-20 homeruns in a season to 45-50. He let it go because there were fans, many fans, in the seats.
February 15, 200917 yr I believe that Bud Selig is the one to blame on this issue. The season that the ball was flying out of the ball park as we watched Sosa and McGuire vie for the most homeruns, he had to know that the players were using performance enhancing drugs. Position players went from hitting 15-20 homeruns in a season to 45-50. He let it go because there were fans, many fans, in the seats. :thumb::thumb::thumb:
February 16, 200917 yr Contrary to some belief, Bud Selig has been very good for baseball right now. Oooooo-kay. If you say so.
February 16, 200917 yr Contrary to some belief, Bud Selig has been very good for baseball right now. I actually wouldn't totally disagree with this. But it hardly compensates for his years of ignorance and incompetence. Oh yeah, and arrogance.
February 16, 200917 yr Oooooo-kay. If you say so. Did you know that the wild card was his baby? And that has been phenominal for baseball.
February 16, 200917 yr Did you know that the wild card was his baby? And that has been phenominal for baseball. We wouldn't need the wild card had there not been so much unnecessary expansion during the '90s on his watch. They may have went to the WS this past year, but we still don't need a team in TB (or Miami, Colorado, etc.)
February 16, 200917 yr What Pete Rose did was much worse...and it's not close. What's not close is everyone else's thoughts on this. Looks like you are in the minority. I think the people of BGP have spoken.
February 16, 200917 yr What's not close is everyone else's thoughts on this. Looks like you are in the minority. I think the people of BGP have spoken.Everyone's thoughts from a site heavily dominated by Cincy fans. Sorry, if I don't write that one down in stone. What Pete Rose did compromised the integrity of the game, where fans have to worry about the outcome of the game being fixed or not. That is much worse than steroids.
February 16, 200917 yr One question...how does anyone know Pete Rose never used steriods? Because he said he didnt? LOL! Like Pete has any credibility. I remember reading an article several years ago about Pete. The article was about Pete running with bad and notorious people during his playing days. The article was also about how Pete was one of the first to bring strenous off-season training into baseball. The article talked about how Rose could be seen at a local gym in Cincy regularly during the offseason working out and hanging out with the owner. Per that article that gym owner was a known steriod dealer and I think even served time. Does this mean he ever used? No, but dont be so sure he didnt either. Steriods were RAMPANT in sports in the 1970's and 1980's!!! Contrary to populart belief...Canseco DID NOT introduce steriods to sports. What most people dont even understand is back in those days you could buy them at basically any pharmacy. The new rules on how steriods were monitored by the FDA werent even put into effect in 1991. BTW...Pete Rose is probably my favorite Bball player.
February 16, 200917 yr What exactly is a "performance enhancing drug?" That's one example. However, I'm looking for a definition so we can see what else falls into that category. I think these are good questions and here would by my answer: Any substance that is banned, being used by the athlete during the peroid when the substance was banned. If it wasn't banned at the time it was used, then imo it wasn't cheating.
February 17, 200917 yr We wouldn't need the wild card had there not been so much unnecessary expansion during the '90s on his watch. They may have went to the WS this past year, but we still don't need a team in TB (or Miami, Colorado, etc.) It's funny you mention teams that have all been in the World Series this decade, IMO, it shows it was good those teams are around.
February 17, 200917 yr I actually believe there's a chance that Maris used some performance enhancing drug.
February 17, 200917 yr I think these are good questions and here would by my answer: Any substance that is banned, being used by the athlete during the peroid when the substance was banned. If it wasn't banned at the time it was used, then imo it wasn't cheating. Exactly ...
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