| Osborne you stole what as going to be my first thread starter. This is a great one. I have a friend that loves to talk about todsys teams being better than yesterdays and therefore players more dominant. If you took their playing weights and left the comparison art that he would be right. I contend if football players at the dawn of the sport had access to the training techniques of todays athletes you would not see the huge gap. I mean look at speed. Deion Sanders still holds the draft combine 40 yd record time at like 4.28. He came through in 1989. In Track and Field, hold a record for one decade and you're a man among men. Holding a speed record for two decades? Almost unheard of. My point is it is slowing down. We are reaching our physical limit and everyone has the techniques.
Sports having two divisions: Juiced and clean? No. I thnk it would be immoral to dangle a carrot in front of someone to entice them to put their health at risk.
I definitely think there needs to be some education with regards to what is a steroid and what is not. Protein drinks, creatine, glutamine and many of the like are not steroids. Have Mark McGuire on tv with a bottle of Androstenadione and he becomes a cheater. That stuff was marketed as a precursor to steroids. The stuff was worthless. Unfortunately people started looking at all supplements as cheating
So I don't think you modify any recxord keeping procedures to reflect equipment changes. If you really wanted to make a case for it though, I would start with golf. Look at Tiger Woods bag and then look at Walter Hagens bag full of kindling at the PGA Hall of Fame. It makes old time basaeball gloves look like a Pentium
It really does depend on the sport. You can go through cycle after cycle of steroids. If it was so beneficial in ibncreasing home run output you would have had 10 guys hitting 60+ home runs in one seson, five of them would have been pure contact hitters. I'm positive they would not help you hit a curve ball. |