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[UK82]

Thinking about Pujols and Judge got me recalling the steroid era and how it really did warp the perspective of baseball forever.

Already you hear apologists saying “yeah Bonds cheated, but he would have still had Hall of Fame stats and maybe set home run records without steroids.” Possibly a borderline HOF career without steroids but bullshit on the home runs.

To me, the best example of how steroids ruined stuff is not Bonds or McGwire or Sosa. Look at the largely forgotten Brady Anderson. I was going to a lot of Orioles games in those years. Anderson’s HR totals in a six year span were 13, 14, 16, 50, 18, 18…He later admitted he used massive amounts of steroids to hit 50, then got scared and tapered and quit. So he was basically a guy capable of averaging about 15 home runs —or 50 with steroids.

Not baseball related but my biggest disappointment during the steroid era was Lance Armstrong. Got by with it for years. Lied for years and the only regret he had was that he got caught. A cancer survivor, charity organizer, etc. he was revered by many including kids. Turns out he was a scumbag all along.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Good morning D-League. It's currently cloudy and 55° here in Eastern Kentucky. Rain moves in later this morning before giving way to cloudy skies and an afternoon high of 75°.

Game Day. Go Cats!

Everyone stay safe on this Saturday.

 

[berniecarbo]

@berniecarbo

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EDIT: After I posted this he decided to hit 700 tonight as well

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Albert could always hit and I liked him, but his defense bothered me. They tried him in LF and 3B with negative results. They finally moved him to 1B and he picked it up well, became a good first baseman and at that point I went all in on him. I'm happy for him that his farewell tour has been so happy for him.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

Albert could always hit and I liked him, but his defense bothered me. They tried him in LF and 3B with negative results. They finally moved him to 1B and he picked it up well, became a good first baseman and at that point I went all in on him. I'm happy for him that his farewell tour has been so happy for him.

They had to put him in left early on cause we had that two year stint where we had Tino Martinez at first...gawd, he didn't hit at all for us like he did for the Yankees (granted none of our stadiums have ever had the short porch in right field like Yankee stadium).

Albert was a very good first baseman once they moved him to his natural position, won a couple gold gloves. And his batting stats those first 11 years of his career as a Cardinal were unreal.

 

[berniecarbo]

They had to put him in left early on cause we had that two year stint where we had Tino Martinez at first...gawd, he didn't hit at all for us like he did for the Yankees (granted none of our stadiums have ever had the short porch in right field like Yankee stadium).

Albert was a very good first baseman once they moved him to his natural position, won a couple gold gloves. And his batting stats those first 11 years of his career as a Cardinal were unreal.

Speaking of Cardinal ball parks: My first live game was when I was a kid. Dad took us to the old Sportsman's Park in St Louis. It had a screen from the right field line to deep in right center. Must have been 40 foot high. Busch put it up because he was losing to many BP home run balls to the fans. I saw Stan Musial get a double off the screen that day. A reporter once asked Stan about all the homers he lost to that screen. Stan said, "Yeah, but it gave me a lot of doubles."

 

[TheFrontRunner]

Thinking about Pujols and Judge got me recalling the steroid era and how it really did warp the perspective of baseball forever.

Already you hear apologists saying “yeah Bonds cheated, but he would have still had Hall of Fame stats and maybe set home run records without steroids.” Possibly a borderline HOF career without steroids but bullshit on the home runs.

To me, the best example of how steroids ruined stuff is not Bonds or McGwire or Sosa. Look at the largely forgotten Brady Anderson. I was going to a lot of Orioles games in those years. Anderson’s HR totals in a six year span were 13, 14, 16, 50, 18, 18…He later admitted he used massive amounts of steroids to hit 50, then got scared and tapered and quit. So he was basically a guy capable of averaging about 15 home runs —or 50 with steroids.

I think Bonds would have been in the Hall of Fame without steroids, his numbers were really good before, but I don't think he deserves in because he cheated and I think without them he is a guy that hits something like 500-550 HRs...nowhere near 762. He hit 46 once at 28...no one believes he was on them then, but hitting 45 or more (including 73) for five straight years at the ages 35-39, of course he was cheating.

The one ridiculous one I remember from the steroid era was Brett Boone. He never hit 25 hrs, never had 100 RBIs and then shows up one season with these huge forearms and batted .331 with 37 hrs and led the American League with 141 RBIs...before that season he had only one season where he had more than 74 RBIs. He was this little second baseman and then all of sudden he is participating in the HR Derby.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Thinking about Pujols and Judge got me recalling the steroid era and how it really did warp the perspective of baseball forever.

Already you hear apologists saying “yeah Bonds cheated, but he would have still had Hall of Fame stats and maybe set home run records without steroids.” Possibly a borderline HOF career without steroids but bullshit on the home runs.

To me, the best example of how steroids ruined stuff is not Bonds or McGwire or Sosa. Look at the largely forgotten Brady Anderson. I was going to a lot of Orioles games in those years. Anderson’s HR totals in a six year span were 13, 14, 16, 50, 18, 18…He later admitted he used massive amounts of steroids to hit 50, then got scared and tapered and quit. So he was basically a guy capable of averaging about 15 home runs —or 50 with steroids.

Another one almost as bad as Anderson was Luis Gonzalez. He hit 57 home runs at the age of 33, which was 26 more than his previous high, coincidentally set a year earlier. It gets overshadowed by the fact it happened in the year where Bonds hit his 73 home runs.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Sir,

Did you happen to know Roy Rich in E'Town? Curious... (He owned E'Town Exterminating.)

I did not know him, but we may be kin.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Fill up the car and truck, start your generator to make sure she runs, put on the storm windows, put the stuff that can fly away in the garage; then stack up some good DVD's to watch!

Stay safe.

 

[BBUK]

I did not know him, but we may be kin.

I looked him up after I posted. He died in 2020 (86). I worked for him about 6 months. He wanted to make me his supervisor then but I turned him down. (He ran an excellent company but I had my own vision by that time and started working on it. I think somehow that hurt him in our relationship but I never wronged him nor he me that I know of.) His son Shawn and I got along well. Five to ten years younger than me and I was in my mid-twenties when I knew him.

Just thought I'd mention it in passing when I saw the last name. Roy was engrained in Kentucky for sure. Used to pass out the tickets to ball games...(Business stuff...) I knew he had graduated from UK and was an Alum. (He stayed active doing things with UK but I was not privy to them other than in passing.) (I was too busy..."catting" around...)

 

[BBUK]

Good Morning all,

Had my biscuits and over-easy eggs... with coffee it hit the spot. Yes I am sore but My Darling was ready to go again. We do love it on the ocean. When we lived in South Carolina we stayed on the ocean, almost daily after work and never tired of it.

A cleaning day for me, I will be milling around in my office and Garage. A cool day it seems but things will heat up. Have a great day...

GO CATS!!! (REFINE yourselves!!!)

 

[BBUK]

It is seriously coming to this... seriously... (Please do not take this as politics) If any of you do please let me know and I will delete it...

The Air Force today....

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 79°F and clear. Today's high could reach 96°F.

Game Day. Go Cats! Plan on tuning in at 6 pm CST.

Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 79°F and clear. Today's high could reach 96°F.

Game Day. Go Cats! Plan on tuning in at 6 pm CST.

Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.

I just gained two pounds.

 

[warrior-cat]

Afternoon Legionnaires!

Got up early this morning and took my daughter to the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge to do some community service required by her online school as part of their curriculum. We did some clean up on the bike trail and a lake shoreline there for our part of the community service. We had trash bags for trash and recycle items. When we returned with our bags my daughters online administrator was just bringing theirs back (her and her husband and kids) and she looked at ours and said "Wow, you guys really filled up your bags". They just don't know how well we military guys can do Police Call. When we got there, there were a lot of people already getting their bags and grabbers so, the only area left was the bike trail and lake shoreline which no one else wanted. That meant there was a large area to cover so we had quite a bit to pick up.

My daughter who does not do much physical working out, or anything else, hung in there better than I thought because I was moving along, and the terrain was rough. There were a lot of spider webs and other bugs flying around which bothered her a bit, but she took it like a trooper. I told my daughter her mother would have never made it because she freaks out around insects (especially spiders). I was supposed to go fishing today but when my wife told me what she (my daughter) needed to do I knew my wife would have gone but, really hoped I would take the task myself. So, being the great husband I am (heh, heh, heh), I did my manly duty.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Fill up the car and truck, start your generator to make sure she runs, put on the storm windows, put the stuff that can fly away in the garage; then stack up some good DVD's to watch!

Stay safe.

It would have to do a 90 degree turn to the right to slam into me. My brother would be a direct hit, he lives in the Apalachicola area. But he is a pro at handling hurricanes and has a lot of experience.

 

[warrior-cat]

IT'S GAME DAY!

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

The SEC refs took care of Auburn today. Holy moly.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

The SEC refs took care of Auburn today. Holy moly.

If I was Auburn's coach, I would take those refs out to dinner. They prolonged his firing for at least another week.

 

[BBUK]

I delved into the fray just a little on the political board today but it was just a slight venture as I have to get some sense of a possibility to effect change or I don't like wasting time. (Time is a precious commodity on this earth.)

I have been known to be called weird and some other things (deservedly so many times.) but darned if some of those are some seriously flawed characters. I'd actually like to see how they live to see if it correlates with how they type. I do doubt it does. At least I hope it doesn't mesh with how they live.. jmo

 

[TheFrontRunner]

I think we are all looking for the same thing today...for the OL to push this lesser opponent around.

Need to see some serious improvement in the OL play.

 

[berniecarbo]

Anybody recall the name Ezzard Charles (The Cincinnat Cobra)? He was a friend of Ali and Rocky Marciano. Ezzard was really a light heavyweight who fought up in weight. Beat Joe Walcott for the heavyweight championship. He was never the same after killing Sam Baroudi in the ring. Oddly enough, only a few months earlier, Baroudi had killed a man in the ring.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

I have a big pot of chili ready to go. One of my favorite game time meals.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Anybody recall the name Ezzard Charles (The Cincinnat Cobra)? He was a friend of Ali and Rocky Marciano. Ezzard was really a light heavyweight who fought up in weight. Beat Joe Walcott for the heavyweight championship. He was never the same after killing Sam Baroudi in the ring. Oddly enough, only a few months earlier, Baroudi had killed a man in the ring.

Oh do I. I am a little older and my boxing hero as a child was Rocky Marciano. Marciano knocked out Walcott for the championship in 1952. This match was with Ezzard Charles

ezzard charles vs rocky marciano - Search Videos

www.bing.com

 

[Sawnee Cat]

I delved into the fray just a little on the political board today but it was just a slight venture as I have to get some sense of a possibility to effect change or I don't like wasting time. (Time is a precious commodity on this earth.)

I have been known to be called weird and some other things (deservedly so many times.) but darned if some of those are some seriously flawed characters. I'd actually like to see how they live to see if it correlates with how they type. I do doubt it does. At least I hope it doesn't mesh with how they live.. jmo

I just got out of the shower after going over to the political forum. I feel dirty reading that liberal garbage. I get called every name in the book by some of them. It is a hoot.

You are right they are seriously flawed and their is no hope for redemption of them. I too wonder if they believe the nonsense that comes from their keyboard.

 

[berniecarbo]

Oh do I. I am a little older and my boxing hero as a child was Rocky Marciano. Marciano knocked out Walcott for the championship in 1952. This match was with Ezzard Charles

ezzard charles vs rocky marciano - Search Videos

www.bing.com

They did a computer fight in 1969. They actually sparred to make film for the fight. Ali said his arms were sore from the beating Rocky gave them. He also said only a computer made in Alabama could beat him.

Rocky Marciano vs Muhammad Ali: A lawsuit and an AI Super Fight - World Boxing News

A look back to the time Rocky Marciano fought 'The Greatest' Muhammad Ali in a computer-generated super-fight of heavyweight legends.

www.worldboxingnews.net

 

[_Rooster]

 

[UK82]

Meh, Clemson holds off Wake Forest in 2 OTs. Georgia wasn't that impressive against lowly Kent State. Tennessee up 10 over Florida in the 3rd. UK at 7. A wealth of information.

 

[BBUK]

My supper...

My Darling cooked a pile of steak..

 

[Sawnee Cat]

They did a computer fight in 1969. They actually sparred to make film for the fight. Ali said his arms were sore from the beating Rocky gave them. He also said only a computer made in Alabama could beat him.

Rocky Marciano vs Muhammad Ali: A lawsuit and an AI Super Fight - World Boxing News

A look back to the time Rocky Marciano fought 'The Greatest' Muhammad Ali in a computer-generated super-fight of heavyweight legends.

www.worldboxingnews.net

That was Marciano's game. He was not a big man and had short arms. So he would pound away and hit the opponent in his arms and they would get numb and heavy. Once that happened Marciano would go for the knockout.. He had a powerful punch

 

[TheFrontRunner]

Ole Miss 35 Tulsa 27 early 4th qtr (Ole Miss is punting it to Tulsa right now)

Middle Tenn 45 Miami Hurricanes 24 midway through 4th qtr

 

[warrior-cat]

My supper...

My Darling cooked a pile of steak..

What kind of turtle is that?

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Touchdown KENTUCKY!!!! 7-7

 

[_Rooster]

7 - 7

 

[warrior-cat]

 

[BBUK]

What kind of turtle is that?

Must be part snapping turtle cause I snapped at it as soon as I got the chance. That mug got bit badly... In fact you may say it was ate up! I toothed it to death!

 

[warrior-cat]

Offensive line woes continue.

 

[UK82]

O-line is abysmal.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

I think the Northern Illinois defense has been in the UK backfield more than Smoke.