Bonds trial to begin March 21st

[padrefanforever]

I'm sorry but thinking pitching back in Ruth's day is better than today's pitching is utterly ridiculous.

Satchel Paige hates you too

And who said there was better pitching anyway ?

[HollywoodLeo]

Right, show where it states 37 is a retirement age? Dumb fuck.

It's not a rule. It's just what happens.

[GiantsFanatic]

Do me a favor, continue the ad hominem attacks while asking me to prove obvious baseball truths. Please.

Usually your suppose to prove something with facts, just just crap out of your ass.

[HollywoodLeo]

Satchel Paige hates you too
And who said there was better pitching anyway ?

Roy Halladay doesnt care.

[HollywoodLeo]

Usually your suppose to prove something with facts, just just crap out of your ass.

The fact that sports players start declining in skill in their late 30s is so well known that there's no need to post statistics. It's like asking somebody to prove water is wet.

[General]

Usually your suppose to prove something with facts, just just crap out of your ass.

Derp derp herp.

Another Look at Why the Hall Ballots Are So Crowded | FanGraphs Baseball

There are 616 players in my sample, former All-Stars who played their last game between 1977 and 2006. It turns out that the number of good players who retire in any given year is remarkably consistent, despite two league expansions and recent All-Star roster expansions. In any given year, about 20.5 good players retire. (The average is 20.5 and the median is 20.5; round up if you want, but you’ll lose half a player either way.) Their average age at their final game is also remarkably consistent, right around 36 every year.

We good?

[GiantsFanatic]

The fact that sports players start declining in skill in their late 30s is so well known that there's no need to post statistics. It's like asking somebody to prove water is wet.

I agree partially because it depends on the sport, football, and basketball has their wear and tear through out, but baseball is different, their have been countless players who have played through their mid 40s.

[padrefanforever]

Right, show where it states 37 is a retirement age? Dumb fuck.

Just a quick search for shits and giggles of what people have come up with as the avg retirement age for MLB and Pro athletes. It appears that the avg. retirement age for MLB players is about 32. Keep in mind people retire for many reasons, the body failing is but ONE.
Chacha

What is the average age of retirement of the MLB?
Average retirement age for a MLB player is 32. However there are many players that last much longer than that. ChaCha

Yahoo

Whats the average age that a professional athlete retires?

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
The average world class athlete retires from his sport at the age of 33. Incredibly, the average NFL player is retired by the age of 28, the average world class wrestler by 24, and the average elite gymnast by 19.

[GiantsFanatic]

Derp derp herp.

Another Look at Why the Hall Ballots Are So Crowded | FanGraphs Baseball




We good?

Its only took few F bombs for you to bring that out

And nope, we will never be good, you will take shots at my opinion, just like PFF and Dirty Vagina and I will fire back, simple as that.

[padrefanforever]

The fact that sports players start declining in skill in their late 30s is so well known that there's no need to post statistics. It's like asking somebody to prove water is wet.

Most start declining before that.....It's the superstars that we notice decline later since they were so far above everyone else in skill level to begin with. Just like Bonds who couldn't get it done w/o cheating.......

[GiantsFanatic]

Just a quick search for shits and giggles of what people have come up with as the avg retirement age for MLB and Pro athletes. It appears that the avg. retirement age for MLB players is about 32. Keep in mind people retire for many reasons, the body failing is but ONE.
Chacha

Yahoo

So wait, one person is saying 36, one is saying 32, nice consistency there.

[General]

Its only took few F bombs for you to bring that out

And nope, we will never be good, you will take shots at my opinion, just like PFF and Dirty Vagina and I will fire back, simple as that.

Hey, disagree all you want....this is a forum, after all, and it exists to foster discussion. But don't degenerate into name-calling, that adds nothing to discussion. Although I am partially to blame for starting it; whatever, I guess, INTERNET IS SRS BUZNES.

Also, I will agree with you that nobody really cares about Bonds anymore - notice how he's not really in the news much. The whole Bonds-steroids thing is a thing of the past, most people have made up their minds one way or the other and don't give a fuck.

[padrefanforever]

their have been countless players who have played through their mid 40s.

In baseball it's by far and away mostly pitchers that qualify for this late life in baseball. There are VERY few mid 40's position players that you could point to as a precedent for your loony argument.

[General]

So wait, one person is saying 36, one is saying 32, nice consistency there.

36-37 is the average retirement age for All-Stars, i.e., the kinds of players that we actually discuss. 32 (or, probably even lower) is the average retirement age for MLB players, period - including those who retire at 24, 26, 28, etc., due to injuries, lack of performance, etc. It's natura for the All-Star age to be higher, because it factors out all (or most) of the retirements due to poor performance.

[padrefanforever]

So wait, one person is saying 36, one is saying 32, nice consistency there.

You say that as if there must be a definitive age whereby a player MUST retire..... damn the law of averages to the 7th pit of hell

Leave it to a Giant fan, who has a Bonds mega mancrush, to show how dumb a human specimen can actually be