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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
Put Mickey Mantle in today's game without PED's and he would never be able to escape the cloud. He could not drink, keep himself healthier, benefit from modern surgery, hit 750 HR's and might never sniff the Hall of Fame even if he stayed clean as a whistle.
We see guys like Chris Davis who have never been implicated in anything answering questions about PEDs every day. What makes anybody think Mantle would be any different?
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And who knows which of these guys would have stayed clean? It's nice to romanticize athletes of the past as having more character, but at least some of that is nostalgia bias.
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