Bonds, McGuire, Clemens and Sosa were the faces of it during their time. I completely feel their arrogance afterwards about not admitting fault has brought them to where they are today.
On the other hand, the Bonds/McGuire/Sosa era of HRs was absolutely exploited by MLB, probably so much so that it made the league IMO, the talk of everything during that HR chase. I can't remember a bigger season in modern day than that year. MLB fully knowing what was going on, now throws those guys to the garbage bin when they benefited and as an organization were to blame as much. Who's to say their PEDs didn't help with their muscle recovery? Surely each of them were very talented but HOF calibre without it? We'll never know. They do deserve to make it in the HOF for the conceited, I'll give them that much.
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