Juicing Appears Out In the 2008 MLB season

Witness these home run stats YTD for both National and American Leagues. Good but not great. Look how bunched up they are. No one has put it out of reach, Sosa style. No Usain of batting in HRs. Injured Ryan Howard is there, so's A-Rod, now appearing with his teammate Giambi, the Stache Hero. But none are excelling with one month to go. The statistics here are boring. I don't know much about standard deviations but I bet there is nothing to talk about. But this is a good thing. Boring but good. Good because it's normal. Now we see what natural human ability can do. Maybe 50. Late in the season the lack of it can makes things seem more sluggish and low but at least it's true, unjuiced illegally, so that when it does happen–Babe, Gehrig, Aaron–you know it's something with more meaning.