This may be an unpopular opinion in here but I could care less if he is on the juice. I think everyone makes too much of it. Who gives a crap, it still takes incredible hand eye coordination, an unbelievable amount of training, tons of travel etc.......... to be as good as Phil Nevin is for chrissakes. Everyone is so quick to jump on the wagon on this issue as if steroids are actually hurting the game............gimme a break. The fans have treated him like a dog for years and I couldn't care less about that either. Steroids are unpopular and despised because that is what everyone wants the public to think. I'm sorry if I pay $65 for a ticket I want to see some scoring and some hitting. I love the game of baseball, but it is the fans that demand 40-50 homeruns from their star players not the players. Most of you would be calling him a bum if he hit 12 homeruns, he hits 73 and hes still a bum. I got a surprise for you boys.........everybody cheats.........everybody...........you do..........he does.......she does.....everybody.............at their profession and in their life. If anyone dare tries to tell me they haven't then I will give you my home address and need you to come over so you can walk across my swimming pool.
My point is this...........if you are going to stand on higher moral ground about steroids being cheating then you need to stand there also when Pettitte balks every time he throws to first, or when Gonzales' back foot is out of the batters box, or when Rickey Henderson ran out of the base line, or when Mike Scott walked four staight hitters on 16 straight pitches then struck out Ryne Sandberg, Andre Dawson, and Keith Moreland on 9 consecutive pitches that were suddenly unhittable. Cheating isn'tnew in sport, only the media attention to this particular form of cheating is new and the social conscience has jumped right on board with it, just as they always do. Who cares, he still has to make contact it may just go a bit further, good for him and good for the fans. Steroids are a decision and I understand that they are considered illegal by baseball, but so is gambling.............anyone up for a game?