Life is inevitably unfair. The world is the antithesis of sound moral order in which liars, thieves, and cheaters paradoxically raise the ladder while the honest are left at the wayside. There are no rules in life. I understand this. The sooner you do too, the better off you will be. Hell, over the years I've come to embrace this fact...I am going to make shit tons of money selling drugs to dumb Americans. Most of these drugs I wouldn't even consider putting in my body but to each their own i guess. You want you're son on Adderall XR so he can do better than his friend on his SATs? Okay, $149.19. You want your teenage daughter to take a beta blocker to ease her anxiety before her big musical performance? Ninety 200mg pills of Toprol XL, $255.22. You can't fall asleep because you are a dishonest bastard that hates what they have become? Thirty tablets of 10mg Ambien, $173.46. I'm not going to judge you and I expect you no to judge me for being a hypocritical prick either. I was raised to value honesty over all else and I most certainly do support free market competition but there is a significant difference between being a liar and a hypocrite (believe me, I've embraced the difference). I hate liars and will openly tell you about any of my life decisions (good or bad) with such frank blatancy it will make your head spin. Cue the hypocrisy...
Steroids have ruined baseball. Oh but what about "don't judge people" or "do anything to get ahead" so on and so forth? For the record, I firmly believe in all of my previous arguments and will stand by each until death. Baseball, however, is not the real world. Baseball is a game. Baseball has a simple set of rules that all must follow.
Think about how awesome the concept of baseball is. Baseball allows men to compete in a game on a level playing field. Competition at its finest with the prospect of not only fame but also fortune (ridiculous, more than some countries make, snoop dogg type fortune). Its like war but minus all the dead people. It tries to civilize the instinct, cut-throat, win at all costs mentality that spans generations back to the Roman Empire and before. It's like WWF but not scripted. It doesn't get any better than this.
It is really simple at its core. All men follow the same rules. You can't cheat or you are forever banned. It's a world that even God can't create.
This awesome simplicity (theoretically) allows for the measure of greatness across generations. Statistics are the tell-all. You perform against peers of similar abilities and amount a career that paints a picture of your talent. Legends can be created. When you mess with the purity of this cut and dry system, fuck you. Fuck you Bonds. Fuck you Sosa and fuck you McGwire. I'd like to give a nice fuck you to all steroid users (for performance enhancing purposes) at all talent levels. From Alex Rodriguez, to Jeremy Giambi, to the all of the cocksuckers who played with and against me at UMaine.
You are all cowards that have ruined baseball for not only me but for everyone in its history. You have tainted the untaintable (i possibly created the best word ever..). Generations of statistics are worthless. And the worst part of all is that you don't have the guts to admit it.
"Everyone was doing it"... No, not everyone was doing it.
"I did it to recover from injury"... No, you didn't. You did it to get paid.
"It doesn't help that much"... This is the most ridiculous statement of all.
Barry Bonds was a hall of fame baseball player regardless, I am not taking that away from his undeniable talent. But you're expecting me to believe that a man at the age of THIRTY SEVEN years old all of a sudden hits 23 more home runs in a season than any other season in his life, 12 more than any other player in the history of baseball from its inception to the 1990s, and 3 more than other cock-sucking cheaters of the late 90's and 2000's? Bonds jumped from 49 home runs (an incredible number also boosted by PEDs) to 73 home runs!!!!!! Seventy fucking three. In the history of baseball (or most any sport for that matter) when have the best years of your career come after the age of 35? I'll tell you who it has happened with. Bonds, Sosa, Sheffield, Clemens, Pettitte and other cheaters. 73 home runs. That is stupid. It is ludicrous to believe that taking steroids doesn't help increase your stats. Just dumb. I will be perfectly content never talking to you again if you believe that they don't because you are fucking wrong. It's so obvious it is painful.
In 2001 there were 8 hitters that hit 40+ home runs (3 at 49), 2 with 50+, 1 with 60+ and 1 with 73. In 2009, one year after the steroids testing policy was implemented, there were 5 players who hit 40+. None even reached 49. No 50's, no 60's, no 70's. That is an unmistakeable drop off. Not to mention these 40+ home run hitting players could still be on the undetectable human growth hormone.
Amidst all of this, boy do I love watching home runs. I am a hypocrite, but I am not a liar...
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