There are better routes than the current - there always is.

Yep but breaking contracts is never a good idea.

xXBatmanXx: If Blue kicks them out, then who is going to pay the bills? YOU?

There are better routes than the current - there always is.

Rev. Norb: I'd just like to say that four for a dollar Tijuana tacos seemed like a good idea at the time. Please pass the toilet paper.

And your comment about conditioning is not valid either.
Just taking steroids does not really make you stronger.

Excuse me? Where did I make that connection??

Yes, they make it easier to grow muscle, but just gaining muscle doesn't automatically translate into home run mastery. Reflexes, bat speed, batting eye, plate discipline are all just as important as raw power.

You know, before the steroids era, a lot of hitters shied away from bulking up, because they found that whatever advantage they gained in power, they lost in bat speed due to having to schlep those big muscles over the plate.

So why are they bulking up now? Probably because the focus on conditioning intensified about the same time all those home run friendly ballparks were built in the '90s. Maybe they put 2 and 2 together and thought steroids would be the wonder pill to put them over the competition. Ballplayers aren't the most intellectual bunch out there. They still subscribe to a fleet of superstitions and still try to get away with corked bats even after all kinds of in depth studies have shown those bats to make no difference in helping one hit home runs.

It would help explain why the majority of guys getting busted in MLB for steroid usage perform no differently than they did after getting caught. And since there is still practically no scientific evidence to back up steroid usage and home run hitting ability, I'm left to guess that the only benefit a hitter gains by taking them is placebo-like.

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The guy that came up with that "amusing fact" is probably like all the other peabrains that think bulking up with steroids does anything to help hit home runs: Doesn't know jack shit about conditioning or baseball.

Actually, it does help, a lot. Hitting the ball harder helps.

And your comment about conditioning is not valid either.
Just taking steroids does not really make you stronger. You still have to workout and exercise. The steroids trick your body into regrowing more muscle after the exercise, thus making your workout more effective and making you stronger. Just taking steroids and not working out will do jack for you; except maybe kill you.




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Dunno if I should be proud of being Swedish after that Link of the Evening...

So 'kiss' is the Swedish word for 'pee'? That's amusing.

Btw : I discovered a really amusing fact yesterday. Only three players have ever hit more homeruns AFTER their 32nd birthday than they did before. Know who?

Bonds
Palmeiro
McGwire

Gee, how coincidental.

Wow. You need to find the blogger or whoever you got that information from and tell them to extract their self-righteously swollen head out of their ass and check their facts before spewing bullshit like that. Carlton Fisk, Frank White, Brian Downing, Edgar Martinez, and Cy Williams all pulled that off. A couple of them hit about twice as many after turning 32. Oh yeah, and another guy named Babe Ruth. But since he started as a pitcher, I'll let that one slide. And that's just after a few minutes of looking at names down the home run lists. It's probably happened dozens of times.

The guy that came up with that "amusing fact" is probably like all the other peabrains that think bulking up with steroids does anything to help hit home runs: Doesn't know jack shit about conditioning or baseball.

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I haven't LOL'd that much for a long time ....

That was insanely good. I lauged my ass off.

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Dunno if I should be proud of being Swedish after that Link of the Evening...

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On speculation and reports the record is tainted, because of his alleged steroids use, Bonds said, "This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period. You guys can say whatever you want."
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Denile is not a river in Egypt you no talent fuck!

Yeah I agree with you Creston. Let this dickhead have his fucking "fame" and "glory." As far as I'm concerned Hank Aaron is the real homerun hall of famer! Barry Bonds is a homerun hall of shamer.

Edit: sorry about the language. I don't like cheaters (lord knows we deal with those types all the time in games right?)

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This comment was edited on Aug 8, 05:27.

Bonds finally pulled his 'roids swollen noggin out of his ass long enough to hit number 756. Now that it's over, please Barry, just retire and go away

No shit. That bloated windbag has been on my tv every single fucking night for weeks, and I'm sick and fucking tired of it.
Please Barry, just quit. Just go away and leave baseball alone. Go back to your loveless marriage and pretend to be a good father, so we can then all root for A-Rod or Pujols to put the record back where it belongs : in clean hands.

Cheating asshole.

Creston

Btw : I discovered a really amusing fact yesterday. Only three players have ever hit more homeruns AFTER their 32nd birthday than they did before. Know who?

Bonds
Palmeiro
McGwire

Gee, how coincidental.

This comment was edited on Aug 8, 02:44.

Bonds finally pulled his 'roids swollen noggin out of his ass long enough to hit number 756. Now that it's over, please Barry, just retire and go away.

If he wants to earn the respect and, well, just feel like he actually earned his fame what I would suggest is have him wipe out all homeruns logged since his 1998. This snippet from his Wikipedia page I think perfectly sums it up...

"By the end of the 1999 season, Bonds was already widely regarded as a great all-around player and likely first-ballot Hall of Famer. But at an age in which most players performance begin a slow decline, Bonds' production began to accelerate."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bonds

By no means am I bashing Barry, but let's be real. If Bonds used steroids I don't care what fucking record he can pull out of his ass the fact of the matter is he cheated to get there while Hank Aaron got there naturally.

And in case you’re wondering Aaron and Bonds are both African American. This has nothing to do with race... it has everything to do with skill and talent.


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I think you're on to something here. We need a catchier name for these moving pictures though.

Motion image is just a cooler way of saying motion picture.

me: have you seen that Minesweeper motion image?
you: yeah it's fantastic!
me: yes it is!

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You wish ....

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Bonds finally pulled his 'roids swollen noggin out of his ass long enough to hit number 756. Now that it's over, please Barry, just retire and go away.

Talk about a guy who lived up to his name... he really did look like a fish, especially in his later years.

thats what you say to someone who passed away? cant imagine what you tell about your mother when she dies.

Talk about a guy who lived up to his name... he really did look like a fish, especially in his later years.

By the way Blue I think you should change the label to "Motion Image:"... just a thought.

Hmm..... I think you're on to something here. We need a catchier name for these moving pictures though. On second thought, why bother? I'm sure they're just a fad anyway.
This comment was edited on Aug 7, 22:47.