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March 21, 2004
Brady's Bombs
Posted by Nick
Did Brady Anderson take steroids when he hit 50 jacks (26 more than he hit in any other season)? Jim Palmer seems to think maybe he did. But here Brady gives a deeper explication of what he thinks happened.
''Because I only hit 50 home runs once, it was, in fact, an aberration. However, it was not a fluke... 'Nothing can be considered a fluke that takes six months to accomplish. Rather it was a culmination of all my athleticism and baseball skills and years of training peaking simultaneously. This was my athletic opus.
''Hitting in front of (Roberto) Alomar, (Rafael) Palmeiro, (Bobby) Bonilla and (Cal) Ripken didn't hurt either.''
''I know what I accomplished, am proud of it, and know that it was done with integrity... I'll state this once again: It was 26 more home runs than I hit in any other season, but that's just one more home run per week, just one more good swing. That is the data that simultaneously comforted me and haunted me, the small difference between greatness and mediocrity.''
UPDATE: JC has more on Brady and Ken Caminiti here.
... if you are one of those people who thinks the Palmer standard is a good one, then you would have to say that if Anderson had some help from steroids, he also had to improve quite a bit on his own. His hitting power grew a lot more than Caminiti's, and we know he was on the juice.
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Nick Schulz is the Editor of Tech Central Station and has worked in media circles and the ideas industry as a writer, editor, television producer and policy analyst. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The National Post of Canada, The Baltimore Sun, Investor's Business Daily, The Washington Times, National Review, Reason, Policy Review, and several other publications. He is also, it should be said, a rabid sports fan whose fandom is inversely proportional to his overall athletic ability.
1. Seth on March 23, 2004 10:40 AM writes...
The "only one more x per y" argument is one of the most dishonest. Using that logic, if only I took one less swing per hole in my golf game I'd be on the PGA tour. If only that putt fell in and didn't roll past on each hole - it's so tantalizingly close.
And yet it's everything.
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