Major League Baseball

[livid]

Because home runs going opposite field at 450 feet isn't natural. Or when you hit a bad pitch that would normally be a pop-up to center and you have the strength to lift the ball out of the park. Nobody's saying that muscles are the only thing you need to hit home run, it just unfairly helps the player.

Barry Bonds was a good home run hitter in his early career and has very quick hands and very good hand-eye coordination, but it's ridiculous to assume that he hasn't had some sort of help lately considering when you get older, you shouldn't be hitting the ball further and you shouldn't get stronger. McGwire's a pretty obvious one too, but he did take supplements, that at the time of his playing time, were legal, but aren't anymore, IIRC.

Edited December 30, 2006 by Livid

[ACCBiggz]

*sigh* Common steroid baseball misconception.

Steroids, if anything, prevent you from hitting home runs. Does it help to be strong? Yes, but most of them already are and have extreme work outs in the off-season. What helps more? Hand-Eye Coord., and the ability to turn on the ball. 100 MPH in - 100 MPH out. That's where Barry excels, and that is what is more amazing than his HR's in recent memory. Yes the walks were a lot, but also the amount of walks that were not intentional because he knew his strike zone so well, amazing.

but it's ridiculous to assume that he hasn't had some sort of help lately considering when you get older, you shouldn't be hitting the ball further and you shouldn't get stronger.

Edited December 30, 2006 by ACCBiggz

[livid]

*sigh* Common steroid baseball misconception.

Steroids, if anything, prevent you from hitting home runs. Does it help to be strong? Yes, but most of them already are and have extreme work outs in the off-season. What helps more? Hand-Eye Coord., and the ability to turn on the ball. 100 MPH in - 100 MPH out. That's where Barry excels, and that is what is more amazing than his HR's in recent memory. Yes the walks were a lot, but also the amount of walks that were not intentional because he knew his strike zone so well, amazing.

but it's ridiculous to assume that he hasn't had some sort of help lately considering when you get older, you shouldn't be hitting the ball further and you shouldn't get stronger.

Then I suppose all the elderly body builders and people who start working out in their middle-ages aren't getting stronger? I'm sure he had help, but I'm not sure it was steroids. The supplements and medical advances in this area in the past 10 years alone helps athletes very much, and when you are a professional athlete your off-season job is to work-out, stay in shape, etc. And Barry, Clemens, etc all do this very well.

The misconception is putting steroids under these ludacris stereotypes, if Barry used steroids in the 2000's it has NOTHING to do with him wanting to be stronger, as he would be using it like a lot of aging athletes in that it aids the recovery process on your body faster, and they would all be using it to stay healthy... which in turn, would allow Barry to play all those games instead of maybe having to sit on the DL.

Steroids, if anything, prevent you from hitting home runs.