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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I think what brought attention to baseball was that players who could hit maybe 40 home runs were now consistently hitting over 60 dingers a season. You didn't have to be nosy to notice.
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I think it was more about guys like Brady Anderson who went from a career 15 hr a year guy, to 50 in one season.
Or even clemens who was pitching better at age 42 than he was at age 32.
i read a quote about Armstrong today which sort of sums it all up for me...
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"His whole story kind of falls into the category of, sometimes good people do bad things, or, conversely, sometimes bad people do good things," said Stan Teitelbaum, author of "Athletes Who Indulge Their Dark Side." "In a way, it's the 'Whatever Syndrome.' There used to be a strong sense of indignation at things like this. How could my hero be this way? But when we the people, we the public, get disillusioned so many times, we shrug our shoulders and we just say, 'Whatever.'"
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The guy has cheated and lied, of that there is no doubt. That being said he has dome yeomans work for countless others as well.