VERY interesting article regarding...Hank Aaron?

by travisam on Jul 11, 2008 7:45 AM PDT Comment 33 comments

http://www.protrade.com/content/DisplayArticle.html?sp=S8687c664-c2d1-11db-9291-83f05e1a00a7

Maybe this is why Hank Aaron pretty much stayed quiet during Bonds' run.

The drummer from Def Leppard only has 1 arm.

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What has 7 arms and sucks?

Def Leppard

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by icanplaythird on Jul 11, 2008 7:53 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Def Leppard is great. To me they’re a metal band that isn’t obnoxious. Photograph is one of the great songs of all time.

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by rxmeister on Jul 11, 2008 8:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

To me they’re not a metal band.

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by leftymalo on Jul 11, 2008 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pour some sugar on me, baby

We tried to cover this song with my band, But our drummer freaked out when I got out the chainsaw.

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Jul 11, 2008 8:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I must admit

I, too, am a Def Leppard sympathizer – not to be confused with a Uriah Heep synthesizer.

Sigh, my first concert ca. 1984 oakland col.

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by zenbitz on Jul 11, 2008 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

BZZZT wrong

The Fresno bullpen

Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.

by S.F. Giangst on Jul 11, 2008 9:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

(polite golf clap)

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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 11, 2008 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sticking to the subject, that article said it’s possible that Aaron used steroids and it wouldn’t surprise me if he did, but we really don’t know it for a fact. Unfortunately, we DO know it for a fact with Barry. Still, everyone was doing it, and I think Barry is being blackballed right now. We got beat the last two nights by players I am highly suspicious of in Ramon Castro and Fernando Tatis. Castro was a .160 hitting catcher up until two years ago when he showed up bigger and with much more power, and Tatis came out of nowhere to hit 34 homeruns, then went back into oblivion, and now after two years out of baseball is hitting bombs again. As Tom House would say, the Mets outmilligramed us this week!!

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by rxmeister on Jul 11, 2008 8:16 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Nah. Check the minor-league numbers for Castro and Tatis. These guys have always been hitters.

The real mystery with Tatis is what the hell happened to him. He was a great prospect coming up, and one of the best players in the game at age 24. Two years later, he was pretty much through as a useful player.

by Evan on Jul 11, 2008 8:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I've got an idea what might have "happened" to him...

And just ‘cause a guy is a hitter in the MiL doesn’t exonerate him. If you can’t hit the ball, PED aren’t going to help you.

If you are a pretty good hitter and use PED, that is where you could see some serious improvement.

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Jul 11, 2008 8:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He wasn’t a “pretty good hitter.” He was one of the best prospects in the game. If a guy hits .303 with 43 doubles and 15 home runs in A-ball at the age of 20, it’s not surprising that he could hit .298 with 31 doubles and 34 home runs in the majors at the age of 24. That’s a normal development curve.

And if his performance in 1999 was the result of steroids, why couldn’t he keep it going in 2000 and 2001? Did his dealer cut him off?

by Evan on Jul 11, 2008 9:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

some of these guys actually don’t want to die. They do it to get the big contract, then they stop. I don’t know Tatis’ contract situation, but that might have been the reason. One of the things I always admired about Barry, (as perverse as it might be) is that he got the big 100 million dollar deal and then kept using. He gave the team its money’s worth. Players like Bret Boone took the big money, got off the stuff, and basically cheated everybody.

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by rxmeister on Jul 11, 2008 9:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m the ultimate model of integrity. I didn’t start using PEDs until after Grant made me a moderator.

2008 Giants: Scrappy! Scrappy! Joy! Joy!

by Goofus on Jul 11, 2008 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

then, it was just so your brain would recover faster. You did it all for the team….

by tyrannoman on Jul 11, 2008 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

“Recovering” would imply that there was some level of intellectual horsepower to which I hoped to return. My brain has always been stuck on “idle”.

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by Goofus on Jul 11, 2008 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

let’s see…+1 for honesty, -5 for laggerdly brain…toatal of -4 for this post.

Better luck next time.

by tyrannoman on Jul 11, 2008 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wait wait, let me feign surprise…. :O

There. We’ve done it. As Rx said above everyone is/was doing it so this whole blah-de-blah is old meme to me.

On this very subject, did anyone see that retarded article Passan wrote about Albert Pujols’ faith healing getting him back from his elbow problems? Right. Some mailbag letters came back calling Passan out for not even addressing the possibilty of PED use. The possibility absolutely exists with anyone playing this game. To not even bring it up is pretty asinine.

Oh well, Passan never impressed me anyway.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 11, 2008 8:19 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I stopped taking Passan seriously about four years ago. He’ll occasionally write an interesting piece on some AAAA player who had a hard life, but when he tries to write about anything else he’s pretty much just another member of Hackville in Nointerity County.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Jul 11, 2008 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

His thing on Brian Barton was interesting, about Barton’s dreams of going into space and NASA and stuff. Although it did make me wanted to photoshop a picture of Barton to say GOING TO THE MOON BRB

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 11, 2008 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have no idea whether Hank Aaron took PEDs but

I do think it’s ridiculous that the media treats the steroid issue/era as if it only occurred between 1990-2007. Athletes used steroids long before then and they’ll continue to use them long after the “steroids era”. The idea of testing does help a ton since it instills some type of fear in to athletes, but it will never be able to keep up with the guys that make the drugs.

by superk1ng on Jul 11, 2008 8:19 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

This piece has been floating around for a while now. The “Davey Johnson was Brady Anderson’s manager!!!!!” bit at the end gives you a clue as to the quality of logical thinking at work.

I think everyone knows this already, but Aaron’s big power spike in 1969 coincided with a huge leaguewide rise in offensive production. Same thing happened again in 1973. Aaron stayed the same; it was the context that changed.

by Evan on Jul 11, 2008 8:27 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yes, but did you know that a month before he died, Lincoln was in Monroe, Maryland, and a month before Kennedy died, he was in …

by Dan from NM on Jul 11, 2008 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

wasn’t Abe’s secretary named Kennedy, and JFK’s secretary named Lincoln?? That was the only thing I remembered from that silly comparison.

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by rxmeister on Jul 11, 2008 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

U can has tinfoil hatz

http://www.weird-encyclopedia.com/Lincoln-Kennedy.php

Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.

by S.F. Giangst on Jul 11, 2008 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

uh-oh

Henry Louis Aaron and Barry Lamar Bonds both contain 15 letters.

Both men are black outfielders whose assault on the career home run record was met with a measure of discord.

Both men have Willie Mays as their closet comp by similarity score.

Both men broke the career home run record in a stadium within 400 miles of their birthplace.

WE”RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS HERE, PEOPLE!!!

Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.

by S.F. Giangst on Jul 12, 2008 5:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sadly, that’s not true.

Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com and on it I make jokes about things.

by groug on Jul 11, 2008 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

and

Lincoln Kennedy played for the Raiders…

by tyrannoman on Jul 11, 2008 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And his agent was Lee Harvey Booth

2008 Giants: Scrappy! Scrappy! Joy! Joy!

by Goofus on Jul 11, 2008 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I remember hearing an interview with someone from the 70’s Braves about a year ago, who was talking about the use of PEDs dating back to that era. I think it was Dale Murphy…

I definitely wouldn’t put it past Hammerin Hank.

by Fresburg on Jul 11, 2008 9:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs