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Old 06-13-2012, 02:25 PM   #7
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Default Re: Your All Time MLB team

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I know he was a three time MVP and then went on to win four consecutive MVP awards after an 8 year "break". A guy whose career best 49 HR's (up 15 from just a year before), then hit 73 without any help? Puh-lease.
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All I'm disputing is his ability to play at that level before he needed a bigger hat and shoes.
I'd also point out that during that, "8 year break", he was an All-Star every year, won four GG, four SS, and finished in top top five in MVP voting four times.
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I don't think hypocrisy is the issue unless you are trying to make the case of steroids being no more of a performance enhancing drug than a drug that mimicks caffeine, albeit with more severe side effects.
Couldn't the same logic be used for anabolic steroids that you're using for amphetamines? After all, anabolic steroids are a drug that mimics testosterone, albeit with more side effects. See how that works?
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