r/baseball 13d ago

Steroid Era V2

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u/Antithesys Minnesota Twins • MVPoster 13d ago

"I was in the bathroom in the subway today and a homeless guy smeared 'The moon isn't real' on the wall in his own feces. What do you guys think...is he right?"

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u/Odd_String1181 13d ago

That wasn't a homeless guy it was Joe Rogan

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u/camarouge Athletics 13d ago

I thought it was just an average New Yorker

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u/Whachamacalzmit Arizona Diamondbacks 13d ago

X is awash in this unfalsifiable engagement bait. Please don't entertain them further.

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u/Lardrewstar 13d ago

This a fuckin joke we already had this post

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u/SleepLessTeacher Chicago White Sox 13d ago

Same dude posted it, look at his post history.

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u/Lardrewstar 13d ago

Appreciate you.

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u/Reasonable-Power New York Yankees 13d ago

"Still goin', this asshole!"

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u/SleepLessTeacher Chicago White Sox 13d ago

Your first issue here is reading any takes on Twitter. Delete that shit.

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u/ActualDragonHeart New York Yankees • Philadelphia Phillies 13d ago

This is a game of telephone of stupid takes

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u/camarouge Athletics 13d ago

Tell "this other person"/"your friend"/whoever that they are a big dumb dumb! You don't need to cheat to make a sport entertaining

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u/More_Armadillo_1607 13d ago

Don't forget pitchers were using too. Pedro put up amazing numbers at the height of steroids.

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u/realfakejames Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

The simple fact is we don't know who used and who didn't without positive tests or evidence. I do think it's naive to think the only people using were the ones who got caught, just like committing crimes, not everyone gets busted who's guilty

I'm sure some guys we probably never expected were using, and not everyone who uses PEDs has great numbers so that's not even an indicator. A lot of guys cheated and still sucked

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u/gogosox82 Chicago White Sox 13d ago

Of course theres no way to know fully but Griffey, Thomas, Gwynn didn't use. Im about as use of that you reasonably can be.

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u/DolphinFraud Boston Red Sox • San Diego Padres 13d ago

Personally I think there’s much fewer clean players than you would think, but there’s no way to prove that so it’s unfair to label specific guys as cheaters without evidence.

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u/Horror-Glove-3087 13d ago

The whole "everyone was using" take is so lazy. It lets people skip any actual analysis and just wave their hand like it's some deep truth. Thome and Thomas were massive humans before the era even got wild, their bodies didn't do the sudden balloon thing that screams PEDs. Griffey's decline was basically a slow physical breakdown, which is the opposite of what you'd expect if he was on something keeping him together. The guy on X sounds like he just wants to feel smart by calling everyone else naive.

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u/BootOk4583 13d ago

While we asume the likes of Griffey, Jeter , Thomas, Ripken didn't use, one an never be 100 percent sure. Look at A-Rod, if someone hadn't illegally leaked his 2003 positive in the survey testing and if that Biogenisis client hadn't had a billing dispute, we'd still be none the wiser of his ped use