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First off...if steroids made it so damn easy to hit homeruns it seems like everyone would be hitting 70 home runs per season? Dont dissmiss the talent.
2ndly, this is baseball's mess. They knew it was going on and they did nothing because they needed the revenue to make up for the strike.
This is not the Barry Bonds on Steroids era...This is THE STEROID ERA. All the stats will be different.
People evolve, in this case drugs evolve, baseball parks get smaller...
As much as people want to compare records from 1920 to 2000...you just can't. In 1920 the ball was like a sand bag, the parks were 25% larger, the bats were heavier, there was no science behind athletics (legal or illegal)....I mean come on...
When Ruth was doing what he was doing he would hit 400% more home runs than his next closest competitor in some years. If someone did that now they'd hit 200 home runs.
Anyone that can stop and think for 2 seconds would realize hitting that many homeruns back then is far more impressive than now....steroids aside.
Yes yes...the pitching is more advanced now...but thats the only arguement
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