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Posted By: Greg Ecklund

Can you also say that if players of that era were offered performance enhancing drugs they would turn them down?

Completely irrelevant, as are your references to Cobb and Gibson

I can go on with many examples of drugs/concoctions that have allowed players to play w/o pain, eliminate depression, reduce stress but I think you get my point.

The point is that many of those substances to alleviate the problems you listed are LEGAL, whereas steroids are ILLEGAL unless prescribed by a doctor.

What Sosa, Bonds, etc.. have done is what the public wanted them(athletes) in general to do, become bigger, faster and stronger

I must have missed the poll asking whether we wanted athletes to cheat or not. I think the owners deserve as much blame as the fans - I'm sure they knew something was up, but they chose to look the other way because McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds were filling their ballparks with fans.