Also Texas executes somewhere around 20-25 murderers a year. I’m sure they have more than 20 murders per year. So clearly they are not executing all murderers. Not even decent fraction. I think they have something like 800-1000 murders per year. Which considering their diverse population which includes gun toting republicans, is moderate, ranked about 23 out of 50 states per capita. Maybe it does work? Unlike say, New Mexico which doesn’t regularly execute people, (once since 1976) and has the third highest murder rate.

Your advice to get tougher (execute more murderers) would probably actually help quite a bit. But I’m sure you looked up the facts about this, before you posted.

Making sabermetrics illegal is asking to make logic, reason, and math illegal.

You must be new here, plenty of commenters would probably be all for this.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/deterrence-states-without-death-penalty-have-had-consistently-lower-murder-rates

For every year since 1990, states without the death penalty have had lower murder rates than states with the death penalty, at times that difference has been as great as 46%. In 2010, a person was 25% LESS likely to be murdered in a state without the death penalty than people in states with a death penalty.

So….you were saying?

Granderson is a horrible CFer now, Jeter is a horrible SS and they still play him there, Weeks is a horrible 2B, Young is a horrible everything, Hamilton is a horrible fielder, Fielder is a horrible fielder (1/2 of detroits lineup are poor or worse fielders).

Teams still sacrifice defense for power as much as they used to.

This is especially remarkable given that such excellent “fielders” like Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi and Miguel Tejada regularly wore gloves at this time.

There will always be people who assess the risk/reward in favor of crime. Bank executives and baseball players. There is just SO much money at stake, and even if PEDs only help marginally, that margin can make the difference–you heal quicker, you are back on the field faster, your next deal is for millions more.

If you disagree with me, you are clearly pro-shoplifter and don’t want to address the problem.

Before fabricating some convoluted “PEDs probably let you hit the ball harder and increase BABIP” theory….know that BABIP did not change during the height of the steroid era it varied within the same range it did before and the same range it has since.

I could be wrong, but I believe in football you just lose your game checks and don’t have that $5M signing bonus from two years again tampered with.

But I guess this is the price current Major Leaguers have to pay for the sins of the past generation.