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Originally Posted by Moonlight Graham
I'm not going to pretend that I know everything about this steroid era, but I get the feeling that the powers that be look at cheaters in different ways. The cheaters from the old days, for the most part, did it for the team and winning was all that mattered. But the PED users of the 1990's-2000's did it for themselves. Hitting the farthest home runs and being on Sportscenter every night came first-team success was second. And of course the big contracts that came with all those homers. Same with some of the pitchers. Strike outs were the only outs that mattered to them. Again, I'm not saying that I personally believe this, but it's just the overall feeling I get. However, if some of these PED guy would have just come out and admitted it immediately and addressed the reasons why they did it, maybe it would be a different story at election time. If nothing else you could at least respect them more. Just my two cents.
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Regarding the 'old days' cheaters, please give examples of their 'doing it for the team'. All the cases I can think of were totally self-serving: Cobb,Speaker and Wood betting, the Black Sox. And while yes, for PED users it was about stats, stats ultimately mean more money. Also, I think people forget that many PED users were doing it as minor leaguers, just so they could make it to the majors….at the expense of clean minor leaguers who, as a result, had just one more obstacle (steroid users) to get by. It has always been about money, but PED users got some glory from their cheating as well.