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Originally Posted by TheGuardian
that's not how they work. do you even know the difference between an anabolic steroid and an adrogenic steroid?
Steroids do not increase or improve "fast twitch" muscles. This a long ago exposed myth. Fast twitch fibers cannot be isolated by any compound.
What perils? Do tell. How many deaths a year do we have in the United States are from steroids? Big fat ass ZERO. Second, try sticking to the discussion instead of personal attacks. It's just a cover for not being able to argue intelligently on this topic.
Second, steroids don't improve hand eye coordination. If you can't hit a curve ball because your hand eye coordination doesn't allow you to, no amount of juice in the world will improve that, no. Period. Can you hit the ball harder? Sure. And my question is WHO GIVES A ****?
How does it impact your life in a negative way?
When a baseball player takes steroids does a child in Africa die or something? What am I missing? What part of a baseball player taking something has a negative effect on your life? Just answer that. YOUR LIFE.
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What part of "I don't really care if they're legalized" was lost on you? They don't negatively impact my life at all. Go ahead and inject yourself with as much centrifuged horse semen as you'd like; I don't give a large-rat's ass.
And you've again missed the point regarding hand-eye coordination. I never argued they
did improve hand-eye coordination. Like I said, they can't help you
recognize a curveball. That said, they can help you get the bat through the zone faster. If you can get the bat through the zone faster, you can gain back what you lost in slower pitch recognition. Hitting a round ball with a round bat isn't just a matter of swinging at it - you actually swing
down on a baseball to drive it. You try to hit the front half of the ball with a downward strike as your wrists rotate through. It drives the ball forward while generating backspin and the backspin then generates loft.
The difference between driving that ball by hitting the front half while the ball is still right at the front of the plate, your arms are fully extended and your wrists are rotating through the hitting zone or spiking it into the dirt for a double play is literally thousandths of a second. If you don't have the freakish ability to recognize a pitch that Pujols has, you can make up for that extra split second with additional batspeed.
The perfect way to hit is through quick wrists and perfect hand/eye coordination. However, a suitable proxy is by making up for the slower pitch recognition through added strength that allows you to get the bat into and out of the hitting zone quicker. Yes, that absolutely makes a difference in a hitters ability to hit a drive a breaking ball. It can also allow them to foul off a couple more pitches to stay alive in the AB and wait for the pitcher to make a mistake.
So to admit that you can hit a ball
harder with PEDs is to also admit that you can hit a ball
better.
You clearly don't know enough about hitting to know
why PEDs absolutely impact it. It's not just "have club, hit ball", the mechanics involved are significantly beyond that.