Summary
Do you join the army of Bay Area sycophants who think [Barry Bonds] has been framed and decide steroid use isn't that awful, after all? Or do you take the more courageous stand and renounce juicing and all that goes with it -- even the star you've been rooting for all these years? It's no easy choice, because we're about to learn just how prevalent steroids were from the early '90s on.
We may well discover that every major milestone in a 15-year window has been soiled -- or just plain spoiled -- by players who were artificially strengthened by steroids. Not just personal achievements, but entire pennant races won and lost because certain teams had more steroid-users than the others. We could find out that "standup" players who've been honest and forthright about everything else, taking responsibility for the errors they've made or the home runs they've surrendered, were hiding a darker truth: They were cheating you, the public, all along.[Kirk Radomski]'s testimony will be everyone's nightmare: [Bud Selig]'s, the players', yours and mine. The commissioner might've hoped the worst of the steroid era was over after Bonds passed Hank Aaron. And the guilty players might've believed they'd escape punishment from the game's elders, too, after Jason Giambi was given amnesty for co-operating with [Mitchell]. Indeed, it looked like baseball was ready to move on.See the full content of this document
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New Tide of Steroid Shame Awaits
More baseball juicers will be named soon
By Bob KlapischHACKENSACK, N.J. -- Scores of major-leaguers are now squirming like fish on a hot dock, having learned that Kirk Radomski, the ex-New York Mets clubhouse attendant who admitted selling stero...See the full content of this document
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