I was kind of wanting to read it myself. I mean, say what you will about the guy's character, the one thing he probably is not is wrong.
This is from a Jayson Stark piece about the steroid testing this season:
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No matter how you break down the numbers of the last couple of years, though, there is one eye-popping area where it's obvious there has been a dramatic difference:
All of a sudden, no one is hitting 50 home runs anymore. Or 60. Or 70.
In the 10 seasons from 1993 through 2002, hitters reached or passed 50 home runs 18 times. Which equaled the number of 50-homer seasons in the 118 previous major-league seasons put together. In the last two seasons (since the launching of major-league steroid testing): Zero.
And in just a four-year period from 1998 through 2001, Mark McGwire, Bonds and Sammy Sosa combined to blow past 60 homers six times. Before that, only Roger Maris had reached the 60s in the previous 71 seasons.
Since 2003, however, no one has come within a dozen of 60. Even Bonds hasn't gotten within 25 of 70.
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