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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (111435)	2/17/2008 1:08:49 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Respond to of 132070

skeeter, You aren't saying anything different than I am saying, but as usual you are more interested in disagreeing and attacking me than actually paying attention to the point I making. I am saying there is a difference between going from hitting 40 home runs to 70 home runs or going from throwing a fastball 92 MPH to 102 MPH vs simply recovering your best form a few days or weeks sooner off an injury. That seems like a pretty basic point to me. I think the average fan thinks about those two scenarios a little differently for logical reasons. There is nothing in Pettite's record (including recent years when he has been clean) that indicates HGH did anythng for him other than get him back on the field faster after he was hurt. The same is not true of McGwire, Bonds, Sosa etc.... IMO, had Clemens just come clean like Pettite, the whole thing would have practically been a non-event because he did nothing illegal. In addition, his original clean stats, stats while he was supposedly taking drugs, and recent clean stats are all reasonable when adjusted for ballbark, league he pitched in etc... What riles the fans up is a dramatic difference in the level of peak performance, not quicker recovery. You are allowed to think it's all wrong and still understand the difference. I am telling you the way it is and why.