Posted by: Joe Hernandez (coach2hit@yahoo.com) on Thu Jun 8 11:01:53 2006

> just thought I would share this with all. I dont like Bonds but a good ref to Jack:
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> http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/060512
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> Mike

Hi Mike,

Thanks for sharing that article...it was an interesting read! As I read it, it struck me that the writer forgot another important variable...the "Magnus Effect". Without getting too much into Newton's Third Law...the faster a ball spins, the greater and steeper is the downwash (as well as the pressure differential would be greater)...the deviated flight pattern of a baseball due to the pressure differentials and the reaction to the downwash is what is called the "Magnus Effect".

Bare with me...The Magnus effect strength is proportional to the rate of spin as well as the relative velocity of the ball. The greater each of these, the greater the absolute deviation. A Magnus Effect also increases "fluid density". At altitude, flight deviation would not be as obvious as at sea level.

Now here is my point, and perhaps Jack Mankin can help us out, home runs would be easier to hit in San Francisco than lets say in San Diego. In San Francisco, a hit ball flies straighter than in San Diego thereby covering a greater absolute distance. Interesting enough, a curve ball would not be able to curve as much in San Francisco as in San Diego. San Francisco has seen some big changes in sea level over the last 100 years, topping off with "el nino" in 1998!

It would be interesting to see an analysis of the effect of this.

What gets me with the media is how they have had this under their nose for so long and now they pretend to just have discovered the steroid issue.

It takes no scientist to know, and the media should have asked those in professional bodybuilding (hec, ask Arnold, the Governor of California...he knows!)that if you were genetically gifted, worked-out every day on a "split" routine, did nothing else in between, ate 6 meals a day of the best foods, you might put on 10 to 12 pounds of lean muscle in a year!!

No human, and sports science as proven this, can put on 15 to 20 pounds of lean muscle in 3 to 6 months, maintain it with a grueling 162 game schedule, without using some form of performance enhancing drugs.

I am always amazed at the journalist level of "ignorance". Do they really think all this is possible on a diet of McDees? What is this "better" nutrition that Bonds claim to have...how about an example of his daily diet? That is why bodybuilders are not rushing to learn from Bonds his miracle secrets to bulking up.

Enough said...

Joe Hernandez