It's time to grow up. Baseball is played by human beings, not by fictional heros.
List of ways to "enhance performance" in baseball (not including Viagra):
1) steal signs
2) steal bases
3) tip off batters as to what pitch is coming.
4) cork bats
5) scuff the ball
6) put vaseline on the ball
7) spit on the ball
8) pretend to tag a runner
9) come off the base to take a throw
10) scuff the ball with sandpaper
11) "Accidentally" throw at the head of the batter
11) cut the ball with a razor blade
12) hidden ball trick
13) pretend to be hit by a pitch
14) amphetamines
!5) steroids
16) anti-depressants
17) booze
18) HGH
19) new designer drugs.
20) Tommy John surgery.
The greatest moment in baseball history, Bobby Thomson's "shot heard round the world" was on a pitch he'd been tipped to expect.
Here's our check on the utopian moralists: ask a group of young athletic physicians if they would take HGH or steroids to give them a chance to play major league baseball, knowing the health consequences. I've done this. If they're honest they'll almost all say 'Yes'.
Here's the great jazz guitarist John Pizarelli doing Take Me Out To The Ballgame.:
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