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Posted By: David Smith

1, 4, 3, 2, 21, 13, 12, 16, 50, 18, 18, 19, 21....

See a difference there?? Going from a low to mid teen's Home Run hitter to 50 is quite a jump, especially when you go back to hitting Home Runs in the teens again.

Something that sticks out THAT much is going to get people's attention. If the powers that be investigate or opposing Managers start confiscating bats and find nothing, do you think they are just going to quit? NO. They are going to keep digging and I am sure one of the things they would look into would be steroids. I mean they had been known for years and Ben Johnson had his Olympic Gold Medal and World Record taken away for cheating with them and that was back in 1988.

The Commissioner's Office put in rules about steroids in 1993 it is just that the Players Association didn't want to abide by them or have testing for them. I think an aberrant stat like Anderson's could have been investigated and the Players Association could have given in on ONE player being tested, especially when it came to a lead-off hitter like Anderson.

Anderson using steroids for one year and having a CAREER year as far as Home Runs goes and then quitting was a smart thing to do. He did it and got away with it. If he strung a couple of those years together, people would have REALLY wondered what was going on and there might have been investigations sooner by the Commish's Office and Congress.

Just doing it once made some people stand up and say, "Huh?". But like I said, he got away with it and probably helped his future contracts because the GM and Owner said to themselves, "He did it once so we might as well give him a big contract just in case he does it again" because they would have hated not signing him and then he repeated the Home Run binge with another team.

So, he does it once, gets away with it and signs more contracts for big dollars or he continues, gets investigated, found out and then kicked out of baseball for cheating. Give me a break, that is an EASY question to answer as to why he gave up what he was doing....

David