Monday, August 16, 2004

In Year 1 PSS (post steroid scandal), Bonds is still dominant. Maybe he was clean after all. Giambi has been hurt, and Sosa has dropped off considerably.

Of course, there could be extenuating circumstances in both cases. Giambi has his mysterious illness and tumor--it's like the old time Kremlin over there, any pronouncement of his health is always guarded and very little information leaks (a suspicious person would suspect that the public isn't getting the full story and that something is going on, but I don't have any idea what). Sosa may be suffering the ill effects of a dearth of cork in his bat. That's enough to slow anyone down....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

cho here.

i've been away on vacation, so this explains the delayed response...

drake, sosa used a corked bat once. ever. only one time in his entire career. do you have data showing otherwise? didn't think so... in fact, he has over 8 bats already in the hall of fame, and they checked those bats and those all came back without cork.

now, you have one data point and you are going to try to tell the world you know with 80% confidence (based on one data point) that he always / usually uses a corked bat & that the primary reason for his drop-off in production is because he hasn't been using corked bats recently...

single data-point extrapolation is... dumb.

also, sammy doesn't use steroids... ahem.