hawk1689 said:
Mathguy64 said:
And if you had ever watched Biggio from 2000 on you would know he dramatically changed his swing to take advantage of the Crawford boxes.
I'll bet you think O.J. didn't do it too. Biggio tore his ACL and MCL on August 1st at age 34. He played 155 games the following season.
Yes, most of the Rangers were on steroids in the 90's. 95% of MLB was on steroids at that time. Aside from Palmeiro, none of those players ever tested positive. If I apply the Astro* fan think, there is no "proof" they took them. I'm not intellectually dishonest though.
If you guys can't tell the difference between pointing a camera at the catcher's signs and then relaying the pitch to the hitter versus a league wide drug issue...I can't fix your baseball acumen.
There's not much of a difference at all. It's two different forms of cheating.
The difference is that you think that steroids were league-wide but sign stealing was isolated to the Astros (or maybe Astros, Red Sox & Yankees). It's as naive to think that as it is to think that Biggio had a HOF career in an era filled with roiders but was somehow clean.
I think the Astros were probably more egregious than most, just like Jose Canseco was more egregious than Biggio, but it is, to borrow your words, intellectually dishonest to think that the Astros with all of that talent and with such an enormous advantage wouldn't have blown everyone else away.
It would be dishonest to say that I'm not trying to make myself feel better - I'm an Astros fan and I do want everyone else to have
also cheated so that I can enjoy the title, just the roidy 88 A's or 01 DBacks can enjoy theirs...and maybe it wasn't as prevalent as steroids but it is truly dumb to think it was not widespread at all.
I do think the Rangers were innocent though - the W-L record shows that. Maybe y'all can hang some sort of sportsmanship banner up.