During last night’s Yankees game, broadcaster Michael Kay spoke of how the home run has been devalued and listed a bunch of reasons why there were so many now, from steroids to smaller ball parks. Also: the "tighter baseball."
Ten years ago after I watched scrawny Brady Anderson of my team, the Orioles, hit 50 home runs in a season, I went to Yankee Stadium and interviewed a bunch of players about whether the ball was juiced. Almost to a man they said it was. Mel Stottlemyre’s the one guy I remember right now, and he used the concrete floor to demonstrate his point. The ball was jumping out of the park in a way few of us had seen it do before, players and fans. I wasn’t the only one who talked about the juiced ball then.
But my point is this, when I wrote it up, friends said I was indulging in a conspiracy theory. I believe MLB did a study to prove they weren’t juicing the ball, cut it open, pictures in Sports Illustrated and probably the Times. Well they were; and now it’s conventional wisdom. These things happen…
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when the a spokeman for the establishment uses conspiracy theory/theorists it is a cover. the truth has been seen and a way back into the hole has to be found – 'conspiracy theory/theorists'.
I follow the National League mostly, but I believe that Brady Anderson was "pumped up" the year he hit 50 homers.
Brady Anderson reminded me of guys like Lenny Dykstra and the boxer Vinny Pazienza. All three at the beginning of their careers were thin and agile. Then all of a sudden, they had mysterious muscular growth spurts with the help of chemicals.
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