"First, and it is true, he is playing against pitchers that are also juiced up. In the days of Ruth and Maris guys would be throwing 70-90 MPH fastballs, today they are in the mid 90s, often throwing 3 or four other pitches to complement their blazing fastballs."
I think you're seriously overstating the difference in pitchers repertoire's from the early days of baseball to today. Pitchers weren't throwing 75 mph heaters back in the day, and steroids is not the kind of thing that would magically add 5-10 mph on somebody's fastball, pitchers use them more for injury recovery and to delay the aging process which a pitcher's arm goes through. Offensive feats from guys like Maris in the 60's and surrounding time periods are impressive because that was a period absolutely dominated by pitching.
"Cubs fans know that Sosa hits the most useless home runs in the world. He may get 60 in a season but 40 of them are when the games are 10-0."
I really hope you don't actually believe that Sammy Sosa hit 2/3 of his home runs in largely meaningless situations.
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