http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/08/25/jim-thome-having-one-of-the-best-age-39-seasons-of-all-time/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Mon, 20 May 2013 11:43:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/08/25/jim-thome-having-one-of-the-best-age-39-seasons-of-all-time/comment-page-1/#comment-67309 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:28:28 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=8791#comment-67309 Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children!?
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Seriously, this has nothing to do with Bonds. Please spare me the outrage.

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/08/25/jim-thome-having-one-of-the-best-age-39-seasons-of-all-time/comment-page-1/#comment-67308 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:00:56 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=8791#comment-67308 You do know that people have bet on baseball since the beginning of the sport, right? How do we know that all players don’t bet on baseball? Perhaps we should ban all players from baseball until we can prove that they don’t.
Also, if Hank Aaron had outproduced all other players in the history of baseball by nearly 100 OPS points at the age of 39, I would have to say, yes, he used steroids. Since he didn’t do that (and didn’t have his feet grow three sizes when he was 36), I’m going to guess he didn’t. If you have evidence to the contrary, please post it in the space below. Thanks.

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/08/25/jim-thome-having-one-of-the-best-age-39-seasons-of-all-time/comment-page-1/#comment-67307 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:29:06 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=8791#comment-67307 tiger prez:
You do know that steroids have been around since the late 50′s right? Are you 100% sure that Aaron wasn’t using as well?

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/08/25/jim-thome-having-one-of-the-best-age-39-seasons-of-all-time/comment-page-1/#comment-67306 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:43:22 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=8791#comment-67306 Imagine the kind of numbers Bonds could have put up if he was using some sort of performance-enhancing agent (alas, none exist). Now that would have been a season!
For now, I’ll guess we’ll just have to be happy that he was the greatest player ever (twice the player Ted Williams was, obviously) at an age when most players are cashing their pension checks.

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