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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
Pickoff Moves, Lunchtime Edition
Mickey Mousing The Angels
The Chronicler puts on his Quincy, M.D. hat today and analyzes the Angels offense, concluding the team's failures, Paul Gutierrez notwithstanding, lie elsewhere than with its hitting coach. I'm inclined to agree; this team is operating as designed, more or less, with the exceptions that you might reasonably have believed that Finley would have some value at the beginning of the season, and that Dallas McPherson could in no way have been forseen to have taken a dive by way of his hip giving out. Skeptics would counter that signing a 40-year-old is a bad idea under any circumstances, and McPherson's limited performance in the first half wasn't anything to write home about, either.Better To Have Loved And Lost Than To Start Third And Finish Third
Jon notes that yesterday's 7-5 loss, though surely frustrating for the White Sox, is still better than never having seen the sweet highlands of the postseason through the telescope at all. With the collapse of Chicago closer Dustin Hermanson, the Sox now anoint Bobby Jenks their new closer, part-time, with Marte getting ninth-inning calls against lefties, and Jenks versus righties. This just doesn't get better, ever.Dayn Perry On Bonds' Return
From a strictly law-and-order perspective, I can understand Dayn Perry's argument against Giants fans cheering on Bonds upon his return. "I see them as being willfully ignorant or perhaps wittingly valuing their own entertainment over notions of competitive integrity. That’s not something any good baseball fan should be a part of." No, Dayn, there's another argument you're forgetting, though frankly I doubt it's one many of them would make. Steroids, we're told, are banned because they're bad for the kids. Maybe that's true, but if we banished everything from public life that could be bad for children, automobiles, liquor, power mowers, knives, and countless other items would also get chased from the retail shelves. The idiocy of the "ban steroids" camp is its infantilization of civil society, not to mention the servile attitude it subtly implants in the heads of the populace. That is, if Barry has to undergo random drug tests, how much easier is it for the state or even other employers to start demanding suchlike as a normal consequence of employment? I'm no Bonds fan, his impressive accomplishments aside, but the alternative -- already in practice -- is simply disgusting.
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Libertarian? FWIW, a person could take anabolic steroids and live a healthy, normal life. (They won't be able to get off it since the test-estro levels would be disastrous . . . ) Testosterone therapy is the closest thing to the male fountain of youth that there currently is, and it should be legal. Of course, it can be extremely harmful if done improperly, but as you said, infantalizing the subject, which is what the media does, won't help anybody.
Bonds is amazing, though. Even if you look at the first 5-10 years of his career, he produced impressive power numbers using a light bat, choked-up grip and swing arc. He has the finest swing in baseball, just a beauty of rotational dynamics.
Bonds is amazing, though. Even if you look at the first 5-10 years of his career, he produced impressive power numbers using a light bat, choked-up grip and swing arc. He has the finest swing in baseball, just a beauty of rotational dynamics.
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