You're Ryan Howard ...

It pains me to say it – especially considering few things piss me off like the use of performance enhancers – but Sosa and McGuire did not do anythign that was considered illeagal at the time in baseball, and if it meant a run at history and millions of dollars finding a way into their pockets I can understand why they did it. I don't agree with them or sympathise with them, but I understand them. Myself, I would never use performance enhancers for the fact I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror, and the last thing I need is for my nuts to shrink.

 

Even without the chase (say, if the HR leader ends up with 52 or something), 1998 would have been a magical year for baseball that would have "made it exciting for John Q. Public," reviving the game to close to pre-strike levels.

The chase, indeed, catapulted the game far past those levels at the time. But it was still just three years since the strike ended. Nobody realistically expected it to be as exciting as, say, the 1993 season so quickly. I'd say Ripken's streak did more than the chase to "revive" the game at its lowest point. If it wasn't the chase, it would have been something else to bring the game a little higher (ex: Ichiro, three years later.)

 

Thanks, Satchel Pooch.

 

More importantly, it wasn't AGAINST THE LAW, either, assuming you are just talking about Androstenedione.

Bonds' stuff is.

 

I don't believe for a second that Andro was the only thing McGwire was on.

And again, for those of you who apparently haven't read this, Major League Baseball banned the use of "controlled substances." Steroids and other PEDs are "controlled substances." Therefore, Steroids and PEDs were banned by baseball. MLB was just dickless enough not to test for them. They had to be caught red-handed and, even then, I believe they would have only had to enter the league's substance abuse program.

And let's be honest here, if they weren't "illegal" and there was no problem with taking steroids, every player would have been shooting up as part of his pre-game routine. But they all knew it was cheating and that's why it was done behind closed doors. Defend it all you want. It was cheating.

 

we need to see pics of howard as a younger guy next to pics of him today just like the bonds side-by-side comparisons.

 

I didn't say it wasn't cheating, it was just cheating within the rules at the time. Absolutely either way it was unethical which is why I think most players with a conscience didn't use andro.

 

Why then do certain TV people need to say he's a rookie?

 

Whitlock is Ryan Howard.

 

How do you know?