Prince Albert Pujols, he reigneth

(btw, I only posted that because I find it "INTERESTING", not out of home team oneupsmanship)(but I've long been a fan of JD generally)

pre-AS break: 29:10
post-AS break: 17:21

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/sports/060822/s0822114.html

6.17.2001 = Justin Gatlin suspended 2 years for testing positive to banned substances.
7.30.2002 = IAAF reinstates Gatlin due to the nature of the offense ("unknowing effect of ADD medication")
4.22.2006 = Gatlin is tested after a relay race in Lawrence, KS.
5.12.2006 = Gatlin sets World Record in Qatar.
5.22.2006 = Steve Shasta scans Sports Illustrated
5.22.2006 = Steve Shasta posts doubtful post about Gatlin's legitimacy
7.29.2006 = USADA publishes results of Gatlin's 4.22.2006 test = positive for banned substances.
8.22.2006 = IAAF bans Gatlin for 8 years due to second positive test.
9.18.2006 = Haikunym denies any foreshadowing in Shasta's 5.22 post with regard to the events of 7.29-8.22 as they were "old news already".
9.19.2006 = Message board drama escalates to C-scale level post exchanges, feathers ruffled, will be forgotten in 24 hours.

B-scale: john vs the board on the old yanqui-bashing threads, the "White Sox: great or lucky" debates of 2005

A-scale: the steroid threads

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Now that my entirely sincere apology is out of the way, let's get back to the issue at hand: Albert Pujols, unlike Barry Bonds, is an aged steroid cheat who stains the game with his very presence!

* baseless speculation, much like the non-Gatlin drug rumours on this thread

But for the rest of you, I hope you take a sharp grounder to the gonads.

Pujols 30.4 VORP, .325 EqAvg

Fielder 29.6 VORP, .316 EqAvg

Prince Semien Fielder, he unworthieth.

your vendetta against Prince is just precious, Morbs.
keep up the good hatin'!

uh-oh, don't wake the shasta bias!

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The St. Louis Cardinals’ Albert Pujols has agreed to participate in tonight’s Home Run Derby in San Francisco, even though he is mired in a career-worst power slump. Pujols, who has 16 home runs, and Alex Rios of the Toronto Blue Jays were the final participants added.

Pujols’s homerless streak reached 22 games and a career-worst 74 at-bats in the Cardinals’ 7-0 victory over the Giants yesterday.

Rios, Minnesota’s Justin Morneau, Vladimir Guerrero of the Angels and Magglio Ordóñez of the Tigers are the American League’s representatives for the Derby. Pujols, Philadelphia’s Ryan Howard and Prince Fielder of the Brewers are the National League contestants.

Oh, for a career-worst power drought to mean 16 HRs at the All-Star Break.

ha, he sonned Ryan THE CLEAN SLUGGER Howard!

Albert Pujols
SEASON TEAM IsoP
2001 StL 0.281
2002 StL 0.247
2003 StL 0.308
2004 StL 0.326
2005 StL 0.279
2006 StL 0.340
2007 StL 0.241
2008 StL 0.238

2007 & 2008 are his lowest IsoPs of his career.

I thought power was supposed to increase through *ahem* age 26-28?

IsoP is negatively correlated with hair loss, if that's what you're implying.

Guy has plantar fasciitis! It's amazing he can hit at all. That shit is painful.

OBP is only important in regards to Barry Bonds...

hi dere:

Bonds IsoP:
2006 SF .275
2007 SF .288

Plantier fascistus?

are those 'roid adjusted stats on Bonds?

Prince Albert:
Ranks 4th in NL in BA (.357)
Ranks 15th in NL in HR (8)
Ranks 1st in NL in BB (41)
Ranks 1st in NL in OBP (.503)
Ranks 8th in NL in SLG (.594)
Ranks 3rd in NL in OPS (1.097)

hi bnw, i'm talking about POWER. not walks, not batting average, not on-base percentiles.

i am talking about POWER.

And how Albert's POWER seems to be waning as he enters the eversofaint twilight of his mid-twenties.