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Old 01-13-2007, 10:44 AM
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Posted By: howard

I disagree that steroids does not equal more power. Maybe it does not in every case but HR power does involve strength as well as the other things FKW mentioned. There are exceptions of course but I think it is telling that you picked Morgan's best HR year and one of Luzinski's worst to use as a comparison.

I do agree with FKW and Dylan though that you cannot judge steroid use just on physique. I'm not as big as them but I am near FKW's age and in, by far, the best shape of my life. I'm not a body builder but I work out hard, am mostly muscle and my only fuel is a good diet and creatine. As I was scrawny for most of my life some of my friends "joke" that I'm on steroids. I take it as a compliment but it goes to show how easily faulty conclusions can be made.

I'm guilty of such conclusions myself. The first player I remember being suspicious of was Lenny Dykstra. He arrived at spring training one year looking so beefed up that I immediately thought he was on steroids.

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