Looks like the Steroid Crackdown is working, no one on pace to hit 50!

[Journeyman]

Steve Finley leading the way (he will not hit 50 Hrs)...and even the RBI numbers are down...is this a coincidence or did the Govt. and MLB finally put its foot down and stop the artificially inflated nonsense?

Ironically Giambi, Bonds, Sosa, all hurt with bad backs...maybe the are trying to over compensate for the lack of artificial enhancement in their systems...it is ironic, the old saying is when I guy is on the juice he is more apt to hurt him self...now all three are hurt and all 3 apparently are no longer using the Roids.

If this season doesn`t prove the last 10 years were an artificial abberation I don`t know what else to tell you...its more clear now than ever!

 

[sherman]

i would agree

 

[SportsBettingTrivia.com]

Journeyman..

I said exactly that around 2 months ago..Once the firs started around steroid use I felt all power numbers would decline, and they did..

Coincidence..I doubt it..But if you are a believer in the purity of the game, the pendolum is swinging your way..

 

[Journeyman]

Players should only be judged against their era now more than ever...baseball was the one sport people liked to compare numbers more than any other..those comparisons are less realistic than ever...A player that hit 500 homeruns in the 70`s 80`s compared to a player doing it in the 90`s is no longer even debateable...totally different animals

 

[VaultedTreehouse]

The back problems are all a joke. All these roid users have a tough time when they come off and start to feel all the pain they've been too durgges up to notice along the way.

 

[JohnnyDeMarco]

I think the back problems are because when you use juice you gain a lot of weight and your body is not designed to carry that kind of weight. Thus the wear and tear is huge. Not to mention the batspeed those guys produce has to be hard on the back.