Arkady Renko

There's a Purdue University in Australia too or are you an international student?

No truer words have ever been said by a mistranslated ad slogan.

It simply should be that all the professional leagues have to adhere to the testing and punishment that is done in the Olympics. Their system isn't perfect, but it is the best one that currently exists.

This is a very good point. This is something that we often forget. I think, therefore, that the only punishment these people will get for their past transgressions is to their public image. Baseball cannot punish players who break rules made ex post facto. Still, I still believe that we talk about accomplishments, calling the past 15-20 years the steroid era is a fair thing to do. It is obviously nothing official, but I think it is a reasonable thing that the media and the fans can do.

The Olympics strips all medals if an athlete tests positive for steroids and other performance enhancers. DQing a whole team in a team sport, as you propose in your hyperbole, is unfair to the players who did not cheat on the team. It is true that the science for cheating often will be ahead of the science testing the cheaters but in the anti-doping agency both worldwide and in the United States keep an extra sample to retest if no methods are uncovered. This happened recently actually. In the end, the best we can do to eliminate this from sports is what we have to do. Some people will get away with it, but some people get away with murder and rape, but we punish them anyway. (I am not equating cheating with murder and rape.)

Sorry, didn't see this. Didn't mean to repeat you in my last post.

Taking steroids isn't going make it easier to make solid contact with the ball, but being buffer allows you to drive the ball farther. Balls that used to be pop-ups become home runs and balls that used to be infield line drives become doubles. If steriods didn't make a difference, why do they even bother taking them? To look good? If being stronger in general doesn't help being a slugger, why do players spend so much time in the weight room now? Not to mention the fact that steriods don't just help you build muscle but also help you recover more quickly: something that is very crucial in keeping up your batting average and slugging in the summer months. Why would bad pitching be the root cause? The population in both the United States and in other baseball nations have increased significantly. The pool of quality pitchers has grown along with expansion. I don't see why the quality of hitters would increase but the quality of pitchers wouldn't. You could argue that bad pitching has helped not everyone, but the elite hitters, but that doesn't explain the random increases in powers coming from players like Brady Anderson in recent years. I can buy that pitching and smaller ballparks have contributed to the situation, but the sole cause? C'mon.

He did, but when other records are broken with help from the 162 game season, they don't mention this fact as often. I think the true testament's to Ruth's greatness was how much better he was compared to the players he played against. Didn't he have more home runs that all other teams combined one year? Along with a 162 game season, Maris did have the majority of people rooting against him along with scattered death threats. So he had some disadvantages as well. I think the recent era should be treated like the whole live ball v. dead ball era has been. Basically a general separation of accomplishments made in different periods. It hurts the innocent players, but that seems the fairest way to treat this.

Maris at least still has the AL record.

Maybe you should write a letter to their C-E-NO! Haha.... oh wait those commercials are about as funny as nails on a chalkboard.

Huh? How does this connect to the thread?

Huh? I was talking about two different time periods and showing how attitudes about Travis Henry so quickly changed. If that wasn't clear, my B. I suck at writing clearly. I really ought to get a refund for my crappy education. (Not being sarcastic.)

Once I saw that the news was posted, I had a feeling that the thread was going to devolve into snide comments and personal attacks over politics. Thanks for not letting me down.

Last time I heard it was Henry for Josh McCown and a pack of Michelob.

We need more dancing bananas and large pictures in our posts.

Combine stats are overrated. I think teams find gems when they ignore them and draft players who perform well on the field.

As far as reality shows go, the Contender is worth watching, IMO. Unlike other reality shows, these folks are actually trying to get something they have dreamed about their whole life. It makes boxing compelling. I agree with you on the storytelling problem. I think networks are too quick to yank good shows before they build an audience.

Very glad to hear it! Is she all right otherwise?

It also says that at least one team clocked him at 4.65. Why does this guy need two agents, by the way?

Would it be possible to put all of these threads on the same topic in one place?

Hooray, we finally get to talk about this issue on the Stadium Wall!! Oh wait, it has already been debated ad nauseum... http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=20802

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Didn't Lupica propose that the AFC and NFC championship games be played on neutral fields so that the Bills wouldn't keep going to Super Bowls?

I completely agree. I think Locke just felt like he needed to go there and that's it. For all he knew he was preventing a bloodied Boone by going to the plane wreckage. I just don't want Locke to be evil. It would just be too predictable.

Biggest mistake ever by Donahoe was letting that stud go.