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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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I wouldn't really take these player's words on when they started doing steroids.
Here's a good article that looks at A-Rod's stats and comes to a pretty clear conclusion that if A-Rod started taking Roids in 2001 the only impact it had on his game was being able to play every day.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...rod/index.html
His stats actually declined during his alleged steroid period which were also the peak years of his career. Something doesn't add up with his claims.
It was also said that A-Rod wasn't a prime candidate for steroids because his body wasn't ballooned up to superhero dimensions. Anyone who's looked into the steroid issues knows this isn't the case. That's why it's hard to simply say that Bonds (and McGuire, etc.) started taking roids when their bodies started to change drastically. I'd say that's when they started to go overboard, not when they began.