Is It Bush's Fault That Racists In Baseball Are Flooding Politics In America, Or Is It Visa Versa?

I am certainly no San Diego fan, but I had some time and just happened to stumble onto the game in which, a short time later the Runge, Winters, Bradley affair took place.

It all began when plate umpire Brian Runge asked Bradley if he had flipped his bat toward Runge's direction after being called out on strikes ending the fifth inning and that Winter's told him that Bradley had done so.

In his book, JUICED, Jose' Canseco, claimed that more than 85% of MLB baseball players used anabolic Steroids. Many now claim that the bulking up steroid is the reason they were able to hit so many home runs, because it made them stronger. However, according to most drug analysts: Short term effects: slower reflexes, rapid pulse, dilated pupils, shallow rapid breathing, arousal, excitation, increased body temperature, distortions of perception (altered colors, shapes, sizes, distances, senses), exhilaration, anxiety, panic, sense of power, violent behavior, brain damage, convulsions, mood swings, hallucinations, memory gaps, dizziness, sleeplessness, constant yawning, mouth numbness, stomach discomfort, sweating, shivering, a feeling of separating from your body, weakness, clumsiness, decreased awareness of touch and pain, and sparse, incoherent speech, spontaneous abortion, congenital abnormalities. Long term effects: muscle tenseness, flashbacks of hallucinations, panic, profound depression, social withdrawal, lack of motivation and interest in life, anxiety, persistent speech problems, loss of memory, behavior similar to schizophrenic psychosis, coma, and heart and lung failure.

Not exactly, these qualities would help MLB baseball players, and, in fact, make it close to impossible for a player to time MLB pitching at all. The products work against speed of eye hand coordination, bat speed and clear vision, by blurring and distorting vision. The argument of records being broken because of steroid is ludicrous and an example of blear-witted, hebetudinous, thinking, and superstition, fed by bigotry to overcome education and science. These are evident in societies, which ignore logic and science in favor of superstition and preconceived and obviously absurd fantasies.

However, even more damaging, the argument that steroids, even if taken, according to Jose' Canseco' s book were taken by 85% of MLB players. Even if he was liberal in his estimate that would mean that the vast majority of major league players were using the same drugs that accusers point to Bonds, Sosa, McGuire and Palmiero used. That indicates a level playing field for the majority of players in the league taking a drug that hindered rather than helped hit a baseball thrown so fast that only a tiny percentage of humans in the world can hit with any consistency. So, then why a large percentage of the 85% challenge or break records?

For instance in 1907-1908 1907 and 1908, with a league-wide batting average of .239, slugging average of .306, and ERA under 2.4. That year, the Chicago White Sox hit three home runs for the entire season!

In 1930 when the ball was so juiced that it was evident to all, in both league's whole team batting averages went up by an average of 40 to 60 points over the averages of the period from 1901-1918, batting and homerun production nearly tripled.

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Professor Bagnolo has majored in: Cultural Anthropology, Architectural design, painting, creative writing. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, he was offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.
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