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Originally Posted by RedLefty
That's it in a nutshell. Throwing is a pretty sucky thing to do to your body, and in the end we all finish with the same injuries.
Of course, some of the substances these guys use to dial things up a few notches (Prior was legendary in this regard) may speed up the breakdown process. There's just no way to repeatedly accelerate the arm/hand up to those kinds of speeds, then rapidly decelerate before punching through your leg, without hurting something eventually. It's not a motion we can do half a million times without consequences.
Pay me $100K/game and I'll give it my best, though.
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When you say 'Prior was legendary' in regards to performance enhancers, do you mean among his peers? The only media questions I ever heard about him were Jack McDowell talking about Tom House (onetime Prior guru) and how he was on the gas and maybe Prior was too.
I mean, I've always wondered if Prior was a 'victim' of steroids, yada yada, but that's not something ESPN, etc. every ran with like they have done with Sosa and a few others who have not tested positive or were not involved with Balco.