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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
The increase in size of foal crop did more damage than anyone ever seems to realize. If you triple the major leagues to 90 teams dont you think the overall quality of player would go down? Wouldn't the overall quality of play suffer?
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You have a point...in that it would be harder to not run horses if fewer of them are around in the foal crop.
As for the quote above, I don't see how an increase in foal crop can be compared with an increase in number of baseball teams. Perhaps, I can see it being compared to an increase in human population size, and the effect it would have on the quality of major leauge baseball players. Or, how the increase in number of Breeders Cup races might result in the softening of the overall quality of those races.
Sadly, the trainer crop has also increased wildly since the days of Man O' War and his 1,680 foal crop. 9,760 trainers started at least one horse in the year 2003.
All joking aside, I can be very well be wrong....perhaps medications (both legal and illegal) really have little or no effect on the long-term soundness of horses and the amount of time they need between starts.
I just wish the great Barry Bonds wouldn't always need the day off, everytime he's played a game the previous night. But hey, someone has to be a fan of his I guess.