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GitRDun

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2. I agree that A-Rods stats can be called into question, but
Fri May 8, 2015, 01:40 PM
May 2015

I think history is a little more clouded than simply throwing out a few guy's stats.

According to Ken Caminiti, half the league was using steroids. That means pitchers had advantages as well. Clouds things a little in my mind.

Further, PED's go back to the beginning of baseball. See:

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/a-brief-history-of-performance-enhancing-drugs

Amphetamines were big in the era I grew up watching. Pud Galvin's elixur!

A-Rod is a known liar and cheat, even after baseball changed the rules to outlaw steroids.

However, I am not so sure I can condemn all of the guys who did steroids as they were not illegal for a long time, and, like amphetamines, oftentimes the teams knew and may have encouraged there use for all we know.

Just my opinion.

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