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Don't ask why, just wave goodbye, Baseball WeeklyBlame it on the juiced baseball. Blame it on the juiced players. Blame it on the shrinking strike zone. Blame it on the shrinking pitching talent pool. Blame it on the easy-to-hit new ballparks. Blame it on the easy-to-see baseball. Blame it on all the new bat companies. Blame it on all the underground steroid use. "Hell, blame it on global warming," Toronto Blue Jays manager Jim Fregosi says. "We're blaming all these damn homers on everything else, so why not?" Welcome to the era when major league baseball games start looking like your kids' T-ball games, when Jermaine Dye and Tony Batista become household names, and when we yawn at 40-home run seasons. Just wondering, but considering that Fregosi, 58, was a six-time All-Star who hit 151 career homers, how many would he hit in today's environment? "I wouldn't want to hazard a guess," says Fregosi, who saw 180 runs scored in the Blue Jays' recent 10-game homestand, "because the figure would sound ludicrous. "But you can't even compare players from the past anymore. You've got to judge the players by decades, not their overall stats.
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