If you were old enough to really enjoy and understand baseball in the late 90’s / early 00’s, you would know a thing or two about displays of power versus power.
Before launch angle and spin rate, there was big strong dudes throwing nasty pitches and swinging big lumber along with the aid of good old steroids. Feel how you will about the era, it still was a part of baseball history — much like the days of greenies and the specially marked coffee pots in the clubhouse.
Sidebar, this is not me condoning any of these practices, they were just the climate at the time.