Great Video "Are athletes really getting bigger, faster, stronger?"

I’d like to see Babe Ruth try to play in today’s baseball game and I would love to see Ronald Acuna play in yesterday’s babe Ruth baseball days

Let them play an entire season and then compare stats

People are downvoting without watching video.

Ignorance is bliss I guess.

There were always elite athletes, I just think as a whole athletes are bigger faster and stronger.

Compare the last man on the roster now to the last man on the roster 50 years ago.

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Babe would dominate.

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Babe only faced two pitchers in his career who could pitch above 90 MPH

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Babe only faced two pitchers in his career who could pitch above 90 MPH

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source ?

Would he have a career .342 batting average? No
Would he still be dominant and contend for HR titles every year ? Yes

Babe Ruth used the heaviest bat in baseball history.
I'm sure with todays lighter bats he would have been able to adjust to slightly faster pitching.

Eye hand coordination is still there.

35 years later, over 40 pounds heavier

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The Washington Redskins' fabled “Hogs” offensive line from 1982 weighed an average of 280.2 pounds.

Last season, (2017) the average Washington lineman weighed 321.4 pounds.

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Derrick Henry

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They debunk the myth of athletes getting bigger/faster/stronger.

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in the 30s and 40s. nfl lineman were 200-230 lbs. That ain't a myth

I love over the years how this board has argued that evolution happens overnight from generation to generation...

...and the presumption that the latest generation is automatically bigger, stronger, faster...simply by being the most recent human incarnation.

Nevermind that evolution is about the slowest fricking million years thing in nature and that its known previous, not too distant people...10 generations ago...were actually bigger and taller than the shrimps we are now.

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Myth debunked: Our medieval ancestors were probably bigger and just as tall as us says a new study.

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See...we don't always trend upwards, sometimes we regress.

Don't get me started on the giant humans 10,000 years ago. Grab some Joe Rogan weed if you'd like to know more.

But, but, but...Evolution! Gatorade, better nutrition, Power Bars!..Everything that is last is automatically best! My 3rd grade teacher told me so.

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I've always argued this, and thought that it's illogical to think that all of the greatest athletes in history just happened to be born in the last 30 years.

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Honestly, who cares? Even if it were true that players from past generations wouldn’t be competitive today, why does that matter? That shouldn’t diminish that player’s accomplishments in any way.

It’s like saying, “Let’s see how Napoleon’s army would have faired against tanks.” Or “Alexander Graham Bell didn’t invent my smartphone.”

Our society criticizes the positions and physical condition of long dead men because those men made the horrible mistake of sharing the majority opinion and maximizing their potential at the time they were alive.

So what if Jesse Owens isn’t as fast as the modern athlete? Would the modern athlete have been that fast in Owens’ time? It’s a pointless debate.