[vhawk01]

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plenty of non-shortstacks have tried to beat redbean. he's unassailable unless you actually come armed with facts. you are making yourself look worse and worse with these 'refutations' which are basically hand-waving, and then laughing. they're not arguments at all.

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pretty sure I've won


not handwaving

strong knit of the most relevant items

Bonds tried to gain power and size--he did but plateaued
suddenly, it bursts to the next level at the same time his personal training squad is heavily involved with doping--part of that circle goes to prison
his numbers get a late career power surge that doesn't match the sabermetric expectations

I would value someone's reasoning skills and life abilities as lower if they did not think Bonds was doping

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Just to make a ridiculously obvious point:

Not everyone is going to match the sabermetric projections, and if I was going to go looking for people to be my outliers, the greatest hitter ever to live would be high on my list.