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Originally Posted by malcolmk14
It is sad. Even guys like Barry Bonds who belonged in the Hall of Fame before the entire steroids thing. He had a very impressive career before 2001, when he hit 73 home runs.
494 home runs, 1405 RBI, 3-time MVP, 9-time All-Star, 2,157 hits all before he allegedly took steroids. That's a hall-of-famer to me.
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Well I think he started juicing up before the 2001 season. My guess would be that in 1999 after a tough year and injuries. Ultimately I think he was jealous of guys like McGwuire and Sosa and the hype that was created in 1998 with their home run hitting and didn't like not them getting talked about while he wasn't. Which I think was tough for him to take since he never was a very popular guy league wide and always had a certain amount of dislike attached to him. So when he was no longer being looked at as a great player while these other guys were...he joined in. Ultimately the owners not having any type of policy made this mess. They liked the rewards it gave them and the players were taking all the risk by juicing up. Players made the choice to take roids, but owners might as well have been handing them out with a big bag of cash as an incentive to take them.