You think that the NBA or NHL dosen't have drug issues? Please. But why oh why is Baseball center stage?
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Simple, because of the fact that several prominent players who were responsible for the return of Baseball to it's glorious postion appeared in front of congress (and technically the people of the United States,) and lied, or refused to own up to things they have done. Mark Mcgwire who during his homerun spell actively kept a bottle of Andro on his locker, but when his time came up before congress he reiterated that he was here to talk about baseball future and not his past. Or even the Rafael Palmeiro diatribe.
Is it any wonder that the average fan now looks at anything with a jaundiced view irregardless of whether they are proven or unproven. Witness the backlash against Ben Johnson when he was caught cheating, he became a pariah.
People expect records to fall, after all that is what they are there for. The athletes' of today own the athletes of yesteryear because of the advanced training, weightlifting, diet and regimen. But the Dietary supplements should end at protein and advanced branchchain amino acids. The fact that Mark Mcgwire used a secondary level steroid now colors that whole era, and will continue to follow everybody who came out of that era, Bonds, Palmeiro, Caminiti, Giambi, Sosa.
I expect Baseball to at least develop, more stringent testing patterns eventually, and this will be the only way remove that cloud over the game. But until they do the average fan is going to second guess everyone who makes a huge jump statistically. Although this is unfair to Bonds as he was a pretty good batting player before he launched into the homerun stratosphere, this will follow him around, because of who he is and the manner in which he achieved it.
