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Originally Posted by rats60
Assumed? So everyone in the 90s was using steroids except for Bonds and Clemens? It should be assumed that they were using much earlier. Bonds had an unnatural jump in power from 1990-92 to 93-94. How do you know he wasn't doping then?
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We don't, I say assumed based off what has been reported by ESPN, testimony from Brian McNamee, and what was wrote in Game of Shadows for Bonds. I don't think there ever will be a definitive answer, unless either one of them truly owns up to it which won't happen.
I'm perfectly fine with both of them being in the Hall. I'm not going to sit here and preach "The Sanctity of the game." Sure in our minds the game of yesteryear is sacred, and it might still be to plenty of kids, but we all know it's far from it.
Professional Baseball has been wrought with Scandal for most of the 20th century, and at this point PED usage doesn't matter. Whether it was injections from quack doctors, taking different animals testosterone, popping amphetamines like candy or taking HGH, a good chunk of the Hall is guilty. And that doesn't even begin to factor the other members who are in there of questionable character due to certain beliefs they had pertaining to players of color/different ethnic background.