Actual breaking Landis news: Sample had artificial testosterone

2.1 GPA here!

 

Sosa did get busted for using a corked bat. Cheating is cheating and he's certainly guilty of at least that one instance of it.

 

Isn't it true that a corked bat dosn't really help that much anyways?

 

If you're just trying to make contact with the ball, it could help because it helps you get the bat around faster. If you're a power hitter, it's not likely to help much because there isn't as much mass connecting with the ball.

Unless you get creative, like Sosa did.

http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/bats-new/corkedbat.html

Sammy's corked bat was different. What makes Sammy Sosa's corked bat interesting is that it was not corked in the usual way, by drilling a hole in the end of the barrel. The cork-filled hole in Sammy's bat was in the taper region at the middle of the bat. This would have a different effect than has been described above. Instead of lowering the moment of inertia by removing mass from the end of the bat, Sosa's corked bat would probably have had a very similar moment of inertia (perhaps even a little higher) than an uncorked bat of exactly the same dimensions. If the taper region was weakened then the bat might be more likely to flex during the swing, a feature which is currently being designed into some of the newest aluminum and composite baseball and softball bats. If the bat flexes during the swing, and if a player can time the swing just right, then the tip of the bat is moving faster than a rigid bat would be when it meets the ball. For a wood bat, the bat speed just prior to the collision is the single most important factor in how fast the ball comes off the bat. So, it is conceivable that Sosa's specially corked bat could give him a slight advantage for hitting the ball faster and farther. Sammy consistently claimed that he used this corked bat occasionally in batting practice to put on a homerun show for the fans. However, as he found out to his embarrassment, using such a bat in a game situation is not a good idea. In batting practice the hitter is hitting balls which are pitched so that he can hit them, in order to help him warm up his swing mechanics. In a game when the opposing pitcher is purposefully trying to jam the batter with a pitch to the inside, a bat which has been weakened at the taper/handle region will break very easily.

 

Its not that he cheated. Its the fact that he lied to his momma.

He

Lied

To

His

Momma!

I can't wait for the AP to get comment from Momma Landis.

I don't think I can ever believe in anything as wholly pure as that once-angelic Mennonite cyclist in bicycle shorts pedaling his way through the French countryside to win something as fashionable as a yellow jersey. The whole scene just exudes testosterone.

Oh wait ... Its FOOTBALL season.
I won't give a shit until February. Unless Ben Roethlisberger says otherwise!

 

Why? Is Ben a Mennonite?