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Originally Posted by Bababooyee
The difference is steroid use is clearly against olympic rules (even while steroids are legal in some countries). Steroids were not against baseball rules until recently.
Not to mention, baseball players, even back as far as the '60s, have been taking amphetamines in order to perform over the day-to-day grind of a 162 game season. A lot more players have used amphetamines, which have been illegal a lot longer than steroids. So, if we are going to call Big Mac a cheater, even while steroids were not banned by baseball, you're gonna have to be consistent and start the witch hunt for the amphetamine users starting from the '70s.
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I don't know what specific substances were considered banned substances in baseball back in the 1990s, do you? But I would have to imagine that all performance-enhancing substances were not allowed. I could be wrong but I would be very surprised if steroids were not against baseball rules. They may not have enforced the rules on all the banned substances but that doesn't mean that there weren't rules against these substances.
I don't know anything about players using amphetamines. I don't doubt it but I just don't know anything about it.