I guess you could also select such comedy options as "Sign Rey Ordonez to an extension" in his greatest hits.

Anyways, this was a month ago:

Portfolio.com

Former New York Mets G.M. and current ESPN on-air talent Steve Phillips has a new theory: Thanks to the Mitchell report, drug testing, and overall increased scrutiny, the steroids era is over and teams that play small-ball can thrive.

On the Mike and Mike Show yesterday, Phillips said "at the current pace we're on this season, Major League Baseball would be down over a thousand home runs in 2008 compared to the 2006 season."

Lets take a look at the home runs now:
2006-5386
2007-4957
2008-2134 (4735proj)
DIFF 06/08 (651) DIFF 07/08 (222)

Not quite a thousand anymore eh? MAN I SURE HOPE TEMPERATURE DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING It's warming and catching up to last year, when everyone was injecting horse steroids into their eyeballs.

Since using steroids only means you hit home runs, and never some other wacky power stat like, I dunno, lets check DOUBLES?

At bats per Double/Home Run
2006-18.32/31.07
2007-18.24/33.85
2008-18.73/35.10

Oh you wacky steroids, what won't you do? Like take plate appearances and figure out what a seemingly small change of .005 would do to an entire season!

OBP
2006-.336
2007-.336
2008-.331
(2006PA+2007PA/2 *.336) - (2008PA*.331)
DIFF= 1129 Hits&Walks over the entire season


In other news Mark Prior was eaten by a raccoon.

Labels: IHateU, Inccorect Predictions, steroids

Cinderella story Rick Ankiel & 2002 World Series MVP Troy Glaus are the latest MLB players to be connected with performance enhancing drugs.

Both players have allegedly received PEDs (HGH for Ankiel, Steroids for Glaus) from an Orlando based pharmacy.

Jayson Stark of ESPN wrote a good article about the double standard we are seeing applied to these popular players as compared to the treatment that Barry Bonds has received.

And as you can imagine, that's the angle I'm interested in as well. It's obvious that Glaus & Ankiel are just one of many many many MLB players who have used HGH and/or steroids. Why do you think most players haven't said anything bad about Barry Bonds? They know how hypocritical it would be. MOST PLAYERS IN MLB HAVE USED PED. Get that through your heads people! And for God's sake: GET OFF BARRY BONDS' BACK. You seriously look foolish witch hunting this one man because of why again? Because he broke records? Seriously? You think that makes it make more sense to witch hunt him than every other MLB player who probably used steroids or HGH? I really don't get the logic. It's OK to single out one player because he's better than everyone else? Yeah. Really, that makes a lot of sense.

Also consider these two things:

#1 As I mentioned before the pitcher that Barry Bonds hit #755 off of tested positive for steroids. He wasn't accused of taking steroids, he actually TESTED POSITIVE. Think about that. How many other juiced pitchers has Barry hit home runs off of?

#2 Troy Glaus was the 2002 World Series MVP. You remember who lost that World Series? The San Francisco Giants & Barry Bonds. Are you going to tell me that winning the World Series isn't "making history," are you really? And don't tell me that because the shipments that they've caught happened in 2003 and 2004 that means Glaus wasn't on steroids in 2002. PLEASE. This is just what they've been CAUGHT with.

Give me a break.

It is officially time to get off of Barry Bonds' back and accept the fact that your favorite players are just as "guilty" as he is.

Labels: Barry Bonds, hgh, Rick Ankiel, steroids, Troy Glaus

Ever want to know the odds to someone turning 37 and putting up a 73 Homerun season?
53,000,000 : 1

This blog entry does a nice job of showing just what an oddity that season was:Kermit the Blog

*Ingest steroids*

~Mike

Labels: Barry Bonds, IHateU, Obvious, steroids

Hello everybody and welcome to my first of many posts here on Big Show Baseball. I am happy to have the opportunity to blog about the greatest sport ever created. I hope you all enjoy the site.

Now, I am going to get something out of the way right off the bat so there is no confusion. I am a St. Louis Cardinals fan. That means that from time to time, I may get a little excited about another Albert Pujols walk off home run or a Chris Carpenter trip to the mound that turned into a ten strikeout, complete game masterpiece. But I am not going to go Bill Simmons on you and write about the Cardinals every single post. On top of that, when in an argument, I usually do not let the Cardinal red blind me to numbers and facts.

For instance, I am not one of those Cardinals fans that think Albert Pujols was completely robbed in the MVP voting last year. That vote could have gone either way and I believe Ryan Howard deserved it just as much as Albert Pujols. Besides, as a fan, I'll take a World Series championship over Albert Pujols winning an MVP any day.

But enough about the Cardinals. The upcoming baseball season is going to be a great one. The Barry Bonds home run chase is probably the most anticipated event of the summer for some and the least anticipated event of the summer for others. The arrival of Daisuke Matsuzaka and his famous (and possibly not even real) gyroball to Boston has been one of the hottest offseason topics and promises to be one of the biggest stories of 2007. As usual, the national media will focus a very trained eye on New York and Alex Rodriguez and his struggles. Will the Cardinals be able to repeat as champions and become the first team to win two titles in this decade? And of course, where will the steroid scandal lead us next?

The answers to these questions and many others can only be answered throughout the season. We hope you enjoy following the 2007 Major League Baseball season here at Big Show Baseball. Here is to another great season of baseball.

--Ryan Reynolds

Labels: Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Chris Carpenter, Daisuke Matsuzaka, gyroball, Ryan Howard, St. Louis Cardinals, steroids