Look at the facts:
Cal Ripken:
Ripken's consecutive game streak? Obviously the result of Cal's legendary work ethic. There's no way that Ripken was around steroids. Not in Baltimore. Not when he was surrounded by class guys like Brady Anderson, Manny Alexander and Rafael Palmeiro. Those three guys may have been teammates of Ripken's back in 1996 but Cal had nothing to do with steroids. Cal had nothing to do with Anderson's 50 homerun season. There's no reason to assume that Cal collected more total bases and posted a higher slugging percentage in 1996 than he had in the five previous seasons with the help of anything other than good old fashioned elbow grease.
Tony Gwynn:
In 1988, at the age of 28, Gwynn hit .313. The next year, his average went up to .336 but that blip was followed by seasons of .309, .317 and .317, the last coming when he was 32. But all of a sudden at 33, Gwynn apparently found something that allowed his average to skyrocket to .358. At 34, Gwynn hit .394. At 35, he hit .368 followed by seasons of .353 and .372. But Gwynn wasn't on steroids because there's a completely logical explanation why a 37 year old Tony Gwynn was hitting 59 points better than the 28 year old Tony Gwynn.
2007-12-27
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