Sorry son, totally incorrect. The increase in strength results in an increase in bat speed, which means you have a better reaction time. This makes the fast ball easier to hit. Perhaps the biggest boost comes from the added endurance, which means you can hit over and over again and won't have the added fatigue from all of the homers before. While you still need the hand-eye coordination, the added strength makes a huge impact. If it didn't, why would players bother using steroids?
Tony Gywnn was perhaps the greatest hitter of his time. With all those hits, it is too bad he wasn't on steroids. He could have dominated the triple crown.
While a heavier bat hits balls farther than a lighter bat with constant swing speed, the lighter bat swings faster and is the greater advantage. I can find this data again, but when I was taking my ME lab class and did the "softball bat strain experiment," I found a study performed which correlated bat weight with impact. For someone of constant strength, increasing the bat weight reached an optimum and then drastically lowered. The measured variable was the ball speed off the bat.
You are right that a person on steriods could increase their bat size, but they would be perhaps wiser to keep their current bat weight and use the increase in swing speed. Either way, the steroids has an impact.
The difference between Arod and Barry is Arod's consistency. He has hit 30-50 hrs every year. Barry hit 30-40 hrs until he turned 37 and then he put up video game like numbers, and the year he hit 71 hrs is the year he started with BALCO. If you think it is just speculation that Barry used steroids, read "Game of Shadows." Now I am not condeming Barry because pitchers were using it too.
Hey guys, i found a great t-shirt online today. I think its only a one day deal so if you want it, grab it.
http://www.shirtaday.com/
This was in the print describing the shirt. I always find it humorous (ironically) when someone makes an off color joke about someone or something else and says these things.Whether or not you really think Bonds "cheated" this shirt is still funny.
"Whether or not your Catholic, this is still funny."
"Whether you're a Republican/Democrat, this is still funny."
"I know this was a tragic death, buy you have to admit, this is still funny."
etc...
If it's truly funny, you shouldn't have to prequalify it.
Incidentally, I like Bonds. It was funny.
Why is this not on the baseball board anymore? Also, check out what came out on cnnsi last night:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html
While it's not perfect, I have been keeping an eye on things and have been managing threads lately. I think that if you check the different sections of the board, you will see a few "moved" links and things like this. When I see that there is a section that is better suited for the thread, then I do move it.
In the Football section, you will see a few threads that are related to College football. There is not a dedicated section for Non-TECH college football, so it stays where it is.
If you have any more questions, you may send me a private message for further discussion.
You can get 20/15 vision with lasik surgery so why not go for the enhancements that are perfectly legal and yet won't harm you? A personal friend of mine lost a son 2 years ago to the effects of steroids. His son developed a very hot temper and ended up killing his wife and turning the gun on himself. Baseball players from the high school level on up "beat the system" every summer by "beefing up" during the summer and report in the fall with 15-20lbs of mystery muscle. Then they quit taking the roids so they won't test positive during the school year. Ask any division 1 strength and conditioning coach and he will open your eyes to the national problem of steroid usage in NCAA sports.There is random testing but that is done during the season when they are playing. What can you do?
In all seriousness, I thought that the pro sports under the alumni section had to deal with Tech ulumni that are currently in the pros. I didn't realize that is meant all pro sports in general. For instance, the threads on Tim Rattay and Luke McCown's progress in the pre-season would belong here as they are Tech alums playing pro sports. I guess I misunderstood the designations.
Sorry. Back when we set this up, we tried to group some general interest forums under the groups that typically have the most interest in them. For example, gaming under students, pro sports under alumni. Sorry for the confusion. The pro sports forum is for ALL pro sports discussions, regardless of alumni. We allow SOME discussions of pro sports to stay on the Tech sports forums because they deal with recent alumni. This is meant to catch the rest of it.
Chris