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I'm not going to bother anymore. It's pointless.Is this a last one to post wins thread. :confused2:
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No doubt improved concentration and alertness are important factors in the game.
I'm just trying to help the intellectually challenged understand why some might look upon the addition of 30lbs of muscle and strength differently from a drug that affects "alertness, decreases in fatigue levels and what not" as you put it.
I know I'm not on top of my game without a few cups of coffee in the morning. It improves my "alertness, decreases in fatigue levels and what not" as well - but I'd never compare the drug caffine to steroids any more than I would compare amphetamines to steroids.
As McGuire says, steroids make you stronger, but they don't help you hit.
Amphetimines, don't make you stronger, but they DO help you hit. Increased hand eye coordination/awareness is going to lead to more solid contact, which will lead to more hits, and hence, more homeruns.
The 1990s marked the dawn of a new era in professional baseball in which the sport’s best players began hitting unprecedented numbers of home runs. Between 1995 and 2003, several players hit between 20 and 50 percent more home runs than the top players of the past century, according to Roger Tobin, a physics professor at Tufts University. Tobin demonstrated how steroids might be the reason for this spike in a packed Friday lecture, “Sox and Drugs: Baseball, Steroids and Physics.”
“Babe Ruth’s record of 60 [home runs] was set in 1927,” Tobin said. “Over 71 years, this record changed by one. And then in 1998, Mark McGwire hit 70.”
To prove that steroids – which are used to increase strength by building lean muscle mass – might explain the spike in home runs, Tobin broke a home run down into its major components.
“First you have to hit the ball, which means you have to bat and you have to not strike out and not walk,” Tobin said. “The reason for dividing it up this way is that whether or not you hit the ball has really rather little to do with how strong you are.”
Because strength is not correlated to whether or not a person hits the ball, Tobin suggested looking at a player’s number of home runs per balls in play. Before 1980, 10 percent of all balls that the top baseball players hit would be home runs, he said. After 1980, however, that statistic increased to near 15 percent.
“But then you look at, say, McGwire – his average was 18 percent,” Tobin explained. “There were two years when he was close to 20 percent. Think about it: if you actually hit the ball, one out of every five was a home run.”
If a player is already good at hitting the ball, the added strength from steroid usage increases the speed of the bat’s motion, Tobin said, which would explain the higher number of home runs. A 10 percent increase in muscle mass – which is common if someone uses steroids – leads to a 3 percent increase in a batted ball’s speed, he added. Because of the rarity of home runs, this small increase in speed is enough to raise the proportion of balls that make it over the fence by 30 percent.
“Home runs are particularly sensitive to these small increases in muscle mass,” he said.
http://thedartmouth.com/2010/01/25/news/baseball
Dont bother Synovia. JoeSixPat is a specialist in the area of the google search cut and paste opinion.As McGuire says, steroids make you stronger, but they don't help you hit.
Amphetimines, don't make you stronger, but they DO help you hit. Increased hand eye coordination/awareness is going to lead to more solid contact, which will lead to more hits, and hence, more homeruns.
Dont bother Synovia. JoeSixPat is a specialist in the area of the google search cut and paste opinion.
:singing: Amazing. Just Amazing.
Now if you and ausbacker could just convince all those who play professional (and amateur) baseball that increased strength has nothing to do with balls traveling out of the park, you guys might just be able to put an end to steroid use.
I take it you use a search engine that tends to disregard the Laws of Physics in which balls hit furtherer, by stronger players WON'T leave the park?
Do you seriously disagree with a Physicist who's research supports that "radical" notion that how strongly a ball is hit has some correlation with home runs?
Where's your evidence that says that Steroid assisted strength has no effect or a negative affect on how far a ball travels. (And be sure NOT to use a search engine, otherwise I will mock you! )
Could you please point out where I said that Joe?
No, you can't, because you're just making **** up. Of course increased strength helps hit balls go further. ******* troll.
As McGuire says, steroids make you stronger, but they don't help you hit.
Amphetimines, don't make you stronger, but they DO help you hit. Increased hand eye coordination/awareness is going to lead to more solid contact, which will lead to more hits, and hence, more homeruns.