There's something to that. I don't think that was key to hitting 70 homers or that made it "easy" but it makes a difference.
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He was still a bizarre oddity.
A) Amphetamines are not remotely in the same category as the kind of steroids Bonds took. B) Getting huge on steroids wasn't a possibility in the 60s.
That's fair.
That's not actually true, but you're welcome to keep thinking it. Ever heard of "park factors?" Juiced ball? The balls are made the same as they always were. The league has expanded many times without seeing a sudden spike in home runs. The only thing that was significantly different about the late 90s was the muscles…
Where's the evidence that steroids significantly made pitches harder to hit? Was anyone throwing 110 mph? No. Was the ball breaking more than it does now or it did in the 60s? No. The only thing steroids did for pitchers was let the best part of their career last longer. It did the same for batters. Bonds dubious…
I bet he can find that evidence. I would, but I'm so done arguing with people who don't understand steroids.
I've seen that too, but the statistical correlation is what it is.
I think mentioning Hitler was going for a send-up of Godwin's law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27…
It's become a bullshit word but it sometimes does mean something, especially during corporate mergers. Those don't happen in sports very often.
Too bad he's not a girl. He'd be awesome at softball where the chop is a lot easier to pull off.
Hell yeah. They're the worst. Whenever the townsfolk try to reign in some of the drunken shenanigans around here we always get a load of little bitches saying "You need the students! Without the students, this town wouldn't exist, man." My response is, yes, we need some students, but we don't need all of the ones we…
I think a spinning head-kick like in Karate Champ would be the funniest.
Then he could have just said. "Don't go berzerk" and left it at that.
Good story, but you need to look up what a drop kick is.
I'm around college students all the time too and enjoy good old-fashioned "Get off my lawn!" curmudgeony sometimes too, but you're making a very unfair generalization.
Many of them are assholes, but most of them aren't. They really aren't. I estimate that about 5% of them cause 95% of the problems.
Exactly. There's no reason for him to lecture them about the ultimate futility of being a sports fan. He just comes off as a judgmental asshole. It would have been sufficient to just remind them that celebrating isn't a free pass for vandalism or making excessive noise on a Monday. Surely, Storrs has bars and/or an…
Yes. You can still have a personal connection to a school even if you didn't actually earn credits there. I didn't go to Penn State but I've lived most of my life next to it, my parents taught there, and most of my friends went there. I'm connected.