how not shocking is this Company claims '98 balls were juiced?

Question

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=164329

i just read sporting news, that all i know

McGwires testimony was a big disappointment to many fans , say what you want that was a big cop out shame on him

bob Gibson was why

The lowering of the mound in 1969 was because or bob gibson

like i said it was bob gibson

a big mean black man was kicking a little white boys a s s

Answer 1

Ok, did you actually see the #70 homerun. I did. He hit the stadium club (the area just above second deck but just below 3rd deck). Juiced or not, it was going out. Also, that game was last game of year. Neither team would be affected by the outcome. The pitchers were not pitching around him, they were challenging him. That is what happens when a pitcher loses a challenge.

Now, the ultimate fact, McGwires feat was not a flash in the pan. He was always a power hitter. His HR numbers steadily grew year to year as he became more discipline at the plate. He knocked on the door of the record the two years prior. Steroids did not make him a good hitter. Altered balls did not make him a good hitter. Don't be upset that he excelled at something you could only dream of being good at. People need to leave him alone and stop speculating on how he did what he did. He was a talented athlete, that is how he made his accomplishments.

Answer 2

I can hit a .50 core softball out of a 280-300 foot softball field but I seem to always leave the .44 core softballs short.

Anything that enhances a player's chance to hit a homerun must be considered be it a taller or shorter mound ("The lowering of the mound in 1969 was intended to "increase the batting" once again, as pitching had become increasingly dominant"...) - a juiced-up ball or steroids.

I'm sorry but when guys like Brady Anderson start hitting 50 homeruns in a season - somethings up - somethings "juiced" up! Sure - the McGwire / Sosa homer battle - it was good for baseball, it put fans back in the seats after 1994. That seemed to be the intent and purpose, the bottom line. Lets get over it and move on. McGwire did nothing wrong, "illegal" at the time. He'll eventually get in the hall-of-shame - I mean hall-of-fame and so will Bonds and Sosa and the all the other juiced-up roid babies. It was a different era with different rules or lack of rules and players should be compared to their respective peers during the same years they were playing.

The balls were juiced and Major League Baseball endorsed it. Your welcome Mark and Sammy and Raffy and Brady...

The lowering of the mound was not solely because of Bob Gibson, "1968 is generally considered the “Year of the Pitcher.” This title is especially appropriate for the American League, where the league slugging percentage (.340) was the lowest since 1915, and on-base percentage (.300) was the lowest since 1908. Batting averages suffered especially, falling to their lowest point (.231) in history, worse than the deadest of the dead-ball years. The two best teams in baseball, Detroit and St. Louis, were led by the two best pitchers in baseball. Detroit’s Denny McLain cruised to a 31-6 record, the first man to win 30 since Dizzy Dean in 1934. St. Louis’s Bob Gibson won 22 games while posting a miniscule 1.12 ERA, the fourth smallest in history and lowest since Dutch Leonard's 0.96 in 1914. Both men won the Cy Young Award and the MVP. Other pitchers followed their lead, with both the AL and NL posting ERAs under 3.00, the first time that had happened since 1918."

My point - MY POINT - was that this was an example how change (or altering something) can bring about significant results. Gibson's 1.12 stays in the record books regardless of when or why the mound was lowered - he had an advantage over hitters - McGwire had an advantage over pitchers because of the ball or the 'roids or whatever. His record and accomplishments should and will stand!

Answer 3

There was an obvious conspiracy to get more homeruns to produce more fan excitment and thus more revenue. Where the hell is the FBI when you need them to investigate something that de-frauded the people of something that only now is coming to light. We all got to see people who were all 'roided up belting balls that have a golf ball core into the stadium parking lots. I would never say it is easy to hit a homerun as there is still an unmistakable atheletic quality to be able to do it with the hand eye coordination along with the body control to deliver the force, but when we started to see half swings leaving the park???????

Answer 4

I say this is all some BS. Why didn't they come forward before? Seems kinda fishy its coming out the same week they are voting for HOF.

Answer 5

THE PLAYERS JUICED AND THE BALL, WHAT A COMBO!!!
IF BONDS IS GUILTY THEN SO IS MCGUIRE. HIS RECORDS STILL STAND BUT NO HOF FOR HIM.