Ezthinking google sammy Sosa steroids.
Your at the top of the list lol

Are you really saying Sosa didnt take steroids? I personally don’t care baseball did this to themselves.

Maris was 27 when he hit 22 more HRs than he ever hit and then never came within 28 jacks of it in a season. Must have juiced in ’61.

However, many sportswriters feels that Sosa in particular was merely a good power hitter who transformed himself into a freak of nature with ungodly power for a few years.

Palmerio…okay, he was a great player. 3,000 hits and over 500 home runs is a huge achievement.

But still…contrast those two with, say, Barry Bonds. Bonds was already a HoFer before 1998. He had that natural, once-in-a-lifetime baseball talent that Sosa didn’t have.

What are the “history or facts” that show Sosa and Palmeiro were not helped by steroids?

More generally, your argument is bunk. You have proven an obvious point that everyone agrees with anyway (steroids alone can’t make someone good at baseball) and then act like this shows that steroids have no effect. It does not follow.

I understand why people react against the self-righteousness of the anti-steroid crusaders, but I think that in denying that steroids have any effect, you are over-reacting.

Still, I think it is a long shot.

As Top Gun taught us:

Slider: Goose, whose butt did you kiss to get in here anyway?
Goose: The list is long, but distinguished.
Slider: Yeah, well so is my Johnson.

Good job by Jim. Good job by Sammy.

You don’t like history or facts then. Cool enough.

They simply makes players stronger and shorten the recovery time between strenuous workouts and games, which is a godsend for a sport with 162 games every season.

However, I do think they’re capable of pushing players with a fair amount of talent past the threshold of being merely “good” into superstardom, or near-superstardom.

Players like Sosa and Palmeiro fit that category in my opinion.

Frankly, any time someone passes Sammy Sosa on the all-time HR list is a good day for baseball, particularly when it’s a great guy like Thome.

lets not forget so easily the guy who really is considered the greatest 3b of all time…Brooks Robinson.

In the good ol’ days they called it the Fountain of Youth. Great story for kids. Ponce de León struck out in the 1500′s looking for it. Kids learn this story at about 12. As it concerns steroids, so should everyone else.

who cares about corked bats Sosa was juiced out of his mind. My roommate was a huge baseball fan I remember he never liked Sosa earlier in his career and I remember him being this skinny center fielder. Then watching a game couple years later I could t believe it was the same dude he was huge.