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Jose Canseco at the plate in 1990. (Otto Greule/Allsport)
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Posted on 05/18/2002 9:55:51 AM PDT by Sabertooth
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"It's completely restructured the game as we know it," said Canseco, who has announced plans to write -- and apparently promote -- a tell-all book. "That's why guys are hitting 50 or 60 or 75 home runs."
Canseco, who announced his retirement earlier in the week, would not disclose whether he took steroids. He promised that details about steroid use would be made available in his book.
"Basically what it's going to be is the true story of my life -- good and bad, the ups and downs," Canseco told The Associated Press on Friday. "I'll name names and discuss basically everything and everybody involved in it. There are a million things I could talk about."
That includes fast cars, Madonna, failed marriages and his suspicion that he was "exiled" from baseball.
Canseco announced his retirement Monday, leaving the game with 462 home runs, 1,407 RBIs and a .266 batting average in 1,887 games with seven teams. He was hitting .172 with five homers and nine RBIs in 18 games for Triple-A Charlotte when he quit.
This statement is false unless you are talking about fat, not muscle. Excercise, weightlifting, and stretching each increase flexibility, not reduce it. Sitting on the couch watching TV while eating reduces flexibility. The idea of somebody being "musclebound" is a myth. If having large, strong muscles was detrimental to an athlete's performance, athletes wouldn't take steroids at every level from highschool on up.
There are steroids in every major sport except maybe golf. The problem is that not enough is done to stop it. If EVERYBODY was tested regularly and got kicked out of the sport for testing positive, use would go down immediately. But, winning and money are more important to players, management, and fans, than winning fairly.
LOL! I guess he isn't called a slugger for nothing!
Ditto that. Mrs. Fierro & I have been attending minor league San Jose Giants games and have had a blast (without spending a fortune).
I agree. I let my season tickets lapse back in 1998 (delayed reaction to the '94 strike), and attended only one or two games after that. I saw no point in paying all that money just to watch the Rangers get slaughtered in the post-season (if indeed they make it that far) by the Yankees every year.
Baseball, at least the "professional" version, is rapidly going the way of the dodo. League-wide, average attendance at games last year was over 800,000 fans down from the previous year, and continues to plummet. The rapidly-dwindling fan base of the game are sick and tired of unceasing public labor squabbles, overpaid over-drugged "athletes," greedy and venal owners, and a product that frankly hasn't changed with the times. In my humble opinion, major-league baseball is officially an anachronism.
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things".
Mantle was 5'11".
Reports are that a player strike is coming this August. I doubt many people will care but for a few SABRE members.
First of all, Bonds is only listed at 210 now (and he's only 6'2," which is not big for today. A few years ago, he played at 195. So, you've exaggerated like crazy, in order to make your case. Then you unmake your case, by saying that too much size "reduces flexibility." So, according to you logic, Bonds should be hitting FEWER home runs, not more.
As for flexibility, you must have missed the shot Bonds hit for his 53rd or 54th last year. He was jammed so far inside, it was impossible to do anything but foul it off down the first base side. And yet, he jacked it!
Steroids are also notorious for affecting a man's personality. They tend to make you aggressive and violent, to the point of going head-hunting and trying to maim other players with baseballs, or even with a broken bat (Sabe will know exactly who I'm talking about here). Bonds, on the contrary, has gone from junkyard dog to pussycat. If he's on steroids, I want to get some for my wife!
Mantle was 5'11".
The "Say, Hey Kid" was only 5'10" (and 170 lbs.).
Thank you! Sosa broke in at 175; he now weighs in at 220 or more.
Hate to burst your bubble!
While it not impossible that he has used steroids, you offer no proof, while ignoring the fact that he has an extensive year-round workout schedule.
That's another of the big differences between now and the old days. With the huge amounts of money now at stake, players, on average, keep themselves in much better physical shape than in the old days. themselves
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