(4 hours ago)Fake Messiah Wrote: I first heard about the Babe Ruth conspiracy theory from my son a few hours after I emerged from the amnesia of open-heart surgery. As I lay in the gray zone between yes and no, he asked if I believed Babe Ruth could even make it out of the modern minor leagues.
Wow, didn't waste any time, did you? You are without a doubt one dedicated conspiracy exposer.
Honestly, the question of how Ruth would have fared in today's league is a fair one. The art of pitching has evolved considerably since Ruth's time. Ruth struck out an awful lot as it was. Could he have handled the movement a modern pitcher puts on a ball? It's impossible to know. There's no question that he was unparalleled compared to his peers but baseball is hardly the same game now that it was then. Of course it's equally valid to ask how his modern day critics would have fared in Ruth's era - without the benefit of modern training tools and techniques, modern medicine and nutrition and having to travel to away games on a train.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
