So you findout all the greats have been on roids...

[Houston]

Question.

Football is a contact sport baseball isn't, so why are more baseball player on roids?

 

[Primetime]

Question.

Football is a contact sport baseball isn't, so why are more baseball player on roids?

Why would a golfer take steroids? Chicks dig the long ball.

 

[brees fan]

I think they should make two leagues so we can see some juiced up monsters raking off homers (sounds kinda like the XFL minus the football) then flip the channel and watch a bunch of japs play ball...

 

[Senser81]

Question.

Football is a contact sport baseball isn't, so why are more baseball player on roids?

Because baseball never tested for steroids until now.

 

[Senser81]

Brains that apply to baseball, not Senate hearings obviously. Baseball is the most mental major sport in the world.

So, following your math that has baseball at 90% mental and 10% physical...even an already great player like Barry Bonds nearly doubled his HR output while on roids, going from a 35-40 HR guy to a 70 HR guy. I won't even get into guys like Sosa and Palmeiro, who struggled to hit 10 HR in a year then ended up hitting 500-600 HRs in their career.

There is just no way for the game to be only 10% physical and steroids to have such a huge impact on the game...so basically what you are saying is that steroids make you smarter.

 

[Vinsane]

I grew up watching baseball as a kid, starting from eight years old when the Indians went to the World Series. After that if a game was on, I'd watch it. Outside of soccer, baseball was my second favorite sport to play. Going to Indians games ranks pretty high as some of my favorite memories. And watching day-to-day coverage of the Home Run Race between McGuire and Sosa lifted Baseball into the spotlight. And that's where it all fell apart.

No one was talking about steroids in baseball until the sports "awakening". When the sport was reignited by the coverage it was getting then people who sought to make money of the awakening started digging, going on a witch hunt if you will as to "how" are they doing this. And what they found was the Salem of sports. People found out then that EVERYONE apparently was juicing. Then baseball tried to gain back credibility and integrity deciding to put the steroid testing to use. To "clean-up" the sport.

And now a couple years later as the clean-up has been done we find 103 players (correct me if I'm wrong) that tested positive. And A-Rod the sports golden child comes out and says "Hey, I'm one of them." and people don't go and throw him under the bus? They give him a week and a half coverage on ESPN, it's the A-Rod circus and everyone is invited. Baseball will forever be tarnished by the steroid era, however long it may, or may not be. I guess if your a fan of the sport you chose to turn the other cheek, and continue watching anyways, if their names go down in the record book with an asterisk stating "Tested Positive in the Baseball Era". So be it, when the record books are written and the guys without the asterisk stand out, we'll raise them as the real heroes of the sport.

 

[RainboUnicorn]

I just did a research paper on 'the effect the steroid era had on major league baseballs image'

But anyways yeah its a huge problem because baseball and Bud Selig turned their heads on the subject and ignored it.