So Babe Ruth would have used 'roids?

Amazing what some people write and think.  A writer for the Daily Breeze, out of LA, says Babe Ruth would have juiced.

Babe Ruth would have done steroids, too. He did everything else. If all he had to do was drop his pants for a boost of power, well then, that wouldn't have been much of a departure from his habits. He was, after all, just a ballplayer, and it's always about chasing. But Ruth signed a few more autographs than Barry Bonds did, so he's considered colorful instead of cancerous.

Ruth was a ballplayer who lived larger than the rest, a glutton with two distinctions: He wore pinstripes, and no one ever got to see what Josh Gibson might have done to his record had he played in the big leagues.

Now, we've gotten to see what Gibson, another glutton, might have done, though with the name of Barry Bonds. And as the caravan of hatred rolled into Dodger Stadium Tuesday night, here it is, ladies and gentlemen: like him or, more likely, hate him, Bonds is good for baseball.

Quite a stretch to predict an athlete's behavior.  Especially an athlete like Babe Ruth, who dominated without PEDs.  Although the perception exists Ruth accomplished his feats drinking beer, in fact Ruth hired a personal trainer during the off-season.  There is little evidence that Ruth cheated for his advantage.  Hedonism is not cheating.

The writer also believes that hundereds of Bonds contempories used PEDs to cheat the game.  Further, MLB manipulates the 'hatred' of Bonds for financial gain.

f you despise Bonds because you believe he cheated, you must also accept that hundreds of players of his era likely did as well. If you despise Bonds because you need a villain in your life, that's OK, because you paid to see him play...

The animosity toward Bonds is worth hard currency. MLB knows this. On their own Web site, you can find an easy link to Bonds' Web site, and if you play the streaming media, you'll find it is generated by the league. Hatred is sparked by passion. Passion is what helps the game survive. MLB knows that a villain is worth billions, and is most certainly worth more alive than he is dead.

MLB probably likes steroid use about as much as the Tour de France loves blood doping.  Although the use of PEDs result in inflated statistics and achievements, drug-cheating will catch up with the games resulting in loss of credibility, health ramifications, and cynicism.

Babe Ruth partied hard, however that does not equate to drug-cheating.

And by the way, changing the rules on home runs past the foul pole would have added far more dingers to Ruth's totals than Josh Gibson might have prevented.

Comments

[drew smith]

I'm not so sure Ruth wouldn't have 'roided up. The first member of the 300 win club used monkey testosterone injections... in 1889. PEDs have been around a lot longer than people think.

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[Anonymike]

Good point made here. Testicular extract existed in the 1890s. Steroids were developed as a synthetic means of accomplishing the same objective. Probably, performance enhancement has existed since the beginning of time. Let's face it. Paleolithic hunters played for higher stakes than we do. So did gladiators. So did soldiers in the era when all fighting was face to face. Nothing new under the sun.