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Posted By: David Smith

As a follow up to my previous post, think of the poor player who didn't take steroids and played out of his mind for a year. He might have won an MVP Award if Bonds hadn't been juicing.

I thought of this when I was thinking about what either Wally Joiner said or what someone said about about Wally Joiner. They were talking about Mark McGwire using Andro (and possibly more) and brought up Joiner. They were saying if McGwire hadn't been on creative substances, Joiner's stats would have looked better and he would have made more All-Star teams.

With players getting bonuses for making the All-Star team, theoretically McGwire took (stole) money from Joiner....

Following that line of thinking, the same could be said of Bonds, except in his case, it would be worse because he stole someone else's MVP Award and that is remembered more in history than an All-Star selection.


David