Dan Gould

No, but he averaged 40 per 162 games. 20th lifetime in HR per AB. His 462 is 30th on the total HR list. Hardly an example that helps your case. Not only is it a poor example for his "case" (which is nonexistent) but Canseco is the poster boy for how, in a no testing system, steroids can keep you in the league for 17 seasons. With a .266 career batting average and a severe defensive liability, only Canseco's steroid-fueled ability to hit taters made him a major leaguer. Hey, if Dave Kingman could hang around as long as he did in the pre-steroid era, I don't see where this is much of an argument... No, the argument is exactly the same. An ability to hit homers = a job in the majors. Kingman did it with a big uppercut swing; Canseco, by his very own admission, did it through use of steroids.

All I'm askin' is that you manage to win one from them this week. I like our chances against Toronto; just give us a tiny bit of help, 'k?

I may be wrong, but I could swear that Jim Sangrey was just called "conservative".

Worth Waiting For IS by Joe Williams.

Andrew Hill appeared on that program: I have an audio recording of this, you'd hope that somewhere out there someone would have a recording of the Morgan/Silver episode.

No, but he averaged 40 per 162 games. 20th lifetime in HR per AB. His 462 is 30th on the total HR list. Hardly an example that helps your case. Not only is it a poor example for his "case" (which is nonexistent) but Canseco is the poster boy for how, in a no testing system, steroids can keep you in the league for 17 seasons. With a .266 career batting average and a severe defensive liability, only Canseco's steroid-fueled ability to hit taters made him a major leaguer.

And as for this discovery, I am presuming there will be some sort of National Geographic Channel special about it, which I will definitely try to catch.

Just taking a guess here, but I think it is a little easier to generate speed while swinging a long thin tubular piece of lightweight metal that flexes with your arms entended than a bat made of wood hanging over your shoulders. I don't think you can compare the two games so directly. Beyond that, there's also the fact of massive technological improvements in golf club construction, all designed to allow anyone, large or small, to 'grip it and rip it' 250-300 yards. It is a completely false argument from someone who specializes in them. Same can be said for the baseball equipment. WHAT???? Nothing of any significance whatsoever has changed in the manufacture of wood bats. There is no question whatsoever that golf clubs have changed dramatically in the past 10-15 years.

Just taking a guess here, but I think it is a little easier to generate speed while swinging a long thin tubular piece of lightweight metal that flexes with your arms entended than a bat made of wood hanging over your shoulders. I don't think you can compare the two games so directly. Beyond that, there's also the fact of massive technological improvements in golf club construction, all designed to allow anyone, large or small, to 'grip it and rip it' 250-300 yards. It is a completely false argument from someone who specializes in them.

Clem, Thanks for the links. I'd forgotten about the part where they put the park over the new underground parking garages - but I wouldn't have imagined that they're putting artificial turf over them. I figured it was dirt and grass and sports fields and a few trees. Unfortunately, I'm too young to know about the Dodgers thing ...

I don't think that word means what you think it means... I know - but the similarity was hard to resist.

How ironic that you use the word "rectify" considering that it is you who has inserted his head rectally on every salient point in discussion. Why don't you consider why everyone else disagrees with you, and whether that is any indication that it is time for you to reconsider your logic-impaired beliefs. OR, you can simply start by answering my question, raised many times now: Why, if strength is not remotely related to home runs, did Bonds undertake such strenuous "efforts" to become bigger and stronger?? Why did Bonds change from a decent power hitter to an extraordinary power hitter at such a late stage in his athletic career, and why do you think it is merely coincidence that his home runs jumped after he packed on 30 or 40 pounds of muscle? In the immortal words of John McEnroe, ANSWER THE QUESTION!

Clem, please explain how terribly corrupt the deal was. My understanding is: A) The Yankees agreed to turn the site of the current Stadium into park land. B) The Yankees are financing the construction entirely on their own, so there is no public money going into the stadium (I don't know what the cost/who is paying for the infrastructure work required for sewer lines, etc) Unless you can tell me that the new park is 50% or less the size of the old park, I don't see the "insane corruption". On top of that, it keeps the Yankees in that poorest Congressional district, where I am sure they employ a significant number of disadvantaged youth as ticket takers and concession workers. Hardly the best jobs in the world, and it is seasonal after all, but its still better than moving the team to the Meadowlands (or the west side). I admit I did not follow the process of how this got done but aside from the usual way that big businesses gets what they want, I'v never understood your oft-stated vehement objections.

I'm sure this must to have been mentioned before but if you're stronger, wouldn't it make sense you could possibly swing something (perhaps a bat) a little faster??? I know "stronger" and "faster" are not the same thing but could this be possible??? m~ Of course it is true. Force=Mass X Acceleration Anyone who becomes stronger can swing a bat quicker, creating greater force. I find it amazing that everyone can identify the reason why Bonds' home run rate jumped in his late 30s - increased strength due to steroid abuse - yet Goodie still can't offer an alternative explanation. Oh, except that he has "the gift".

Its pretty simple - there is less regulation/lower standards for label requirements on things like dietary supplements in countries like the Dominican Republic. I don't believe it is coincidental that a majority of players caught in the current testing regimen have been latinos, and they usually claim not to have known what they took. The Player's Union and MLB has worked on this issue by trying t make sure that foreign born players know what is legal to take and what isn't, and how to avoid mistakenly using something. Ortiz is just acknowledging that in the past he may have unknowingly taken a protein powder or other supplement that would have led to a positive steroid test, had there been one in place.

The simple question then remains, why didn't Bonds hit homeruns at the same rate before he bulked up? Somehow, his miraculous, non-steroid induced, increased muscle mass caused his bat speed to increase. Not according to our friend: but then again, no one from MENSA is trying to track him down based on his statements here.

The simple question then remains, why didn't Bonds hit homeruns at the same rate before he bulked up?

this is the funniest quote a FEW more dollars ???.....it's 28 million !!!!!! Its even more deceitful. The Yankees budgeted 25.5 million. The Red Sox offered 18. Presumably the Astros offered the same 22 million as last year or maybe a bit lower. So the Yankees "won". But did Roger say "OK"? No. His evil agent came back and said "the price is 28 million" and of course the Yankee said "deal". Anyone believe it was coincidental that A-Rod's record setting salary is 27 million?

How fast does that skinny kid swing the club? then tell us that bat speed is in no way related to muscle power, and then put a bat in your grandma's hand for a demonstration.

Weinstock reacted vehemently and profanely to this assertion when I asked him. Stated unequivically that he had no knowledge of who was a junkie. And he really objected to the lengthy statement from Jackie McLean that appears in "Four Lives in the Bebop Business" about how he was screwed by Prestige when he was with them.

That company has been in deep trouble with a bunch of state AGs. Like most of these companies, they sign you up for "autoship," keep billing your credit card and never give any refunds. And the pills don't work. So I've been told.

Back to the game itself: Sorry Yankee fans, but this was surely a great night for Yankee Haters. 2-1 game in the eighth, two outs, a broken bat sixty foot roller puts a man on base. He tries to steal, the tag is applied to his derriere with his hand eighteen inches from the base - and he's called safe. A bloop single off Farnsworth and a blast off of Mo later and the Yanks fall to six games back. Seriously though, this hardly begins to make up for all of those games stolen in April when A-Rod was Mr. Walk-Off. The baseball gods give and they taketh away.

Don't bring it up, Mark. The facts are that he testified that he used a cream that he claimed was an arthritis balm and a clear substance that was flaxseed oil. As far as Goodie is concerned: This doesn't matter because the authors of the infamous book "broke the law" in getting the transcripts of the Grand Jury testimony. It doesn't matter because there is no proof that "the cream" and "the clear" which were designer steroids created by BALCO were actually used by Bonds - even if everyone else who received the cream and the clear from BALCO did in fact receive and injest steroids. I am still waiting for our sadly delusional friend to explain WHY Bonds added such muscle mass if it doesn't help him hit home runs. If he ever answers that, then maybe he can move on to explain HOW Bonds defied the history of baseball by becoming better in his late 30s and 40s, and he can also explain why no one should notice or care that one critical event happened between his transformation from decent home run hitter to extraordinary home run hitter: His hiring of Greg Anderson and BALCO, and his massive gain of muscle mass. A gain of muscle mass that came in such a short period of time that experts regard it as a "smoking gun" signifying steroid abuse.

Well, the league took notice: Torre suspended one game, Proctor suspended four.

I just found out that the parent company of 4X Made Easy and Wizetrade is suing the operators of the infomercialscams.com and infomercialratings.com websites for, get this, "trademark infringement"! Their claim is that by using terms like "4X made easy" in their meta-tags for puposes of Google searches, the sites are trying to create in the minds of consumers that there is a connection between the two companies. Unbelievable! Yeah, the company is trying to associate itself with a scam artist that gets the worst reviews on the website. Here is the text of the suit; over here is a copy of one of the initial "threat" letters that they received. I cannot imagine that this suit could even go to trial, it is such a blatant attempt to silence a critic. To their credit, Public Citizen has agreed to represent the company.