MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

True. Does he look any different today than he did 5 years ago? Maybe the drugs are different now then when Bonds became a thanksgiving balloon, but Judge is 6’7 280. He’s always been about the same size.

 

Reminder: Everything except the Toronto-Baltimore doubleheader starts at or about 4 p.m. EDT today.

 

Did Lance Armstrong look like a thanksgiving ballon?

 

I'd go with Kershaw. He suffers -- relatively speaking -- from his mortality in postseason. It's not like he has sucked in October, having gone 13-12 with a 4.19 ERA in postseason, but it's a greater departure from his regular season than many would presume.

 

Either one assumes that baseball's drug testing regimen is efficient and effective or one doesn't. If one does, then Judge, Pujols or any other current player must be deemed innocent unless they fail a test. If one doesn't, then my advice is to stop caring, since by your lights it's obvious baseball doesn't. I can't think of any more crabbed and unpleasant way to follow sports than holding the notion all extraordinary accomplishments are suspicious just because performance enhancing drugs exist.

 

All they're all irrelevant, right? Hasn't everything been determined?
You could kind of see this coming with the exception of the NL East weeks ago. But with all the possibilities of division titles and jockeying for seeding position, you'd have thought back in April that something of consequence would be determined today.

 

Because of Yom Kippur?

 

257 seems like a low number for the history of the Yankees.

 

You spelled American League wrong.

 

Of all the past star Yankee pitchers, only Guidry was a super high strikeout guy. Clemens, too, I guess, but when he was a Yankee, he only once had over 200 in a season. The greatest Yankee starter was probably Whitey Ford, hardly a high strikeout type.

 

That last part is where I fall on this. It is unpleasant to assume PEDs are involved every time some player does something special. It is also unfair to those players. Show me real evidence of PED use or STFU. Doing something great does not constitute real evidence.

This may sound contradictory, but I also don't have much patience for people talking about Judge being the clean home run champ. We don't know that. Just as we can't assume he is on something, we can't assume he isn't. Bonds holds the real record. Don't like it? Root for someone to break it.