[GrindingGears]

RE: the alcholism et cetera.

There are often controverses/stimgas associated with great athletes just for the reason that they are great. In our culture we "get off" when our heros have failures or falter in their life. I'm an accountant not a psych, but I would venture to guess that it's b/c it makes them seem more "real".

In Barry's case, there hasn't even been any proof that he used roids, he has also denied it. The hype behind this 'roid issue is centered around tarnishing another individual's accomplishments. If his piss came up postive? then yes I would agree, flame away, asterix, suspension, how dare he. But until then, all the comments that discredit him are attempts to tarnish his career and there by placing him in that list I started above. I'm not asking you to buy into my point, but does that make more sense?


Onto the swing thing....

"Steroids turn routine fly outs into home runs."

Have you ever hit a home run? All the home runs I've hit were because I swung at the right angle, right time, and hit the ball with the right part of the bat. NOT necessarily b/c I swung harder. It's about the swing, and not all about the force behind the swing. Efficiency and timing, not brute force.


Agree with me on this, Barry is most likely clean (roid free) at the moment, right? With all the hype and a chance he could be tested, he is probably being extra careful not to get pinned for anything.

Let's allow Barry to show us this season if roids helped him out. I'll go as far to say he'll hit .400 this year (barring any terrible injuries) and match his slugging and BB from last year. Let's watch and see, about 150 games left to find out.

Cheers,
Philip

P.S. If you want to ***** about something, ***** about the body armour players are wearing today. IMO thats made a huge difference in today's batting numbers. Get rid of that stuff and get them off the plate, this is hardball!