Three former baseball stars on hand at the American Meat Institute’s National Hot Dog Lunch on the Hill on Wednesday didn’t want to touch the thorny steroid issue with a foot-long dog.
When asked about the possibility that the 30 percent decrease in home runs this year is due to the league’s crackdown on steroid use, Bucky Dent (who never hit many home runs himself, save that one that really counted in 1978) told Yeas & Nays that it could be due to that or better pitching. “You never know what happens with home runs,” the Yankee great said.
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Legendary reliever Bruce Sutter, who wore a Cubs hat, said he does not know anything about steroids, but that the cause of the home run drought could be better pitching or the cold weather over the year.
And Oscar Gamble, sporting an Indians hat, protested that it’s only halfway through the season. “In summertime I think they fly up a little more than they do when they first start out,” Gamble said. “It seems like lately they’ve been picking up.”
