Baseball Players on Steroids
Baseball and Steroids, Runs, Hits and Lots of Errors
The first thing a new season’s manager needs to tell the players
is the difference between human growth hormones (HGH), bovine growth hormone
(bGH) and no hormones – and it has nothing to do with utters. He needs
to tell the players some side
By taking steroids and bGH a player can inflate his statistics and
his body. I don’t mean to pick on Mark
McGwire but to use him as an example In 1996 McGwire hit 50 home runs with 390
official times at bat – every 7.8 times he was at the plate. Babe Ruth did that
eating candy bars and "light drink." When listening to McGwire’s
infamous performance before House
Government Reform Committee in March 2005 there were short pauses
while viewers smothered their faces with laughter. McGwire didn’t hit 135 home
runs in two years eating bonbons.
Originally the baseball was made so you couldn’t hit it easily,
high, or far, so 60 home runs a season hitters are usually pituitary freaks.
But we want our players to be made by nature not in the lab. Remember when
baseball players were small? (For example: PeeWee Reese). Joe DIMaggio was only 6 feet 2 inches
and weighed 193 pounds. Where have you
gone, Joe DiMaggio? There is a generation out there that thinks
DiMaggio invented the coffee maker.
Like Joe DiMaggio, baseball players are symbols – of what things
were what things are and what things will be. I guess we, as fans, get what we
deserve. I just prefer not to see a some great ballplayer pumped up on steroids
riding in a convertible waving to a frenzied crowd.
