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Originally Posted by SniperSB23
Maybe I'm overestimating what the public knew since I was playing college football at the time so juicing wasn't exactly a foreign concept. Even in high school football it was common knowledge which prominent players around the section were juicing. I just find it funny how naive everyone is pretending they were back then (like they couldn't interview a doctor about andro) and how outraged they all are now when the evidence was all right before their eyes. I remember my friend jokingly emailing me in the spring of '99 to take Jeter high in my fantasy baseball draft cause his head had blown up over the offseason. Sure enough his slugging percentage jumped 70 points higher than it has ever been at any other point in his career and after the year he signs a 10 year, $200 million deal and get off the juice. I can't say I blame him, or any of these guys in the least. There was just too much money to be made to allow other guys to get a competitive advantage. I blame the game for allowing that to happen.
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I agree.
Lets get something straight... I HATE A-Rod. But I at least give him credit for stepping up and admitting the use... even if it was 3-4 years too late. I'm tired of the guys that are saying "I didn't do it" even though we all know they did. If you did, OK fine, everybody did for the reasons Sniper listed above, just admit it. Don't do the Barry Bonds and claim like you didn't know.
I would LOVE to see Jeter on that list (although he won't be from '03, like you said, just '99.)