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It's the quicker-dicker-upper. It also enables Rafael Palmeiro to "call his shot" without having to remove his hands from the bat. It also makes sliding head first that much more enjoyable although it causes groundskeepers throughout the league to fill in irrigation trenches on the basepaths. It's also rumoured to have made Carl Everett taller.

BTF had a classic thread on Rafael Palmeiro and Viagra (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/primer/discussion/8592/) in the summer of 2002 but it appears to have been ruined in the changeover. Nearly every post has been reduced to its first line and others have been deleted entirely. It lives on, however, via the Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org/web/20031021234627/www.baseballprimer.com/clutch/archives/00003713.shtml#comments_287).

Congrats to Palmeiro on his 3000th hit.

(Why are we congratulating someone who admitting to using performance enhancing substances?)

Because all men dream of getting a standing ovation after getting good wood for the 3000th time.