The whole PED thing is actually irrelevant. It makes great fodder for folks to argue and debate about but at the end of the day every era had its own share of players trying to "game it" whether through PEDS, greenies, coke, ball doctoring, bat loading or corking.. you name it they did it. And in every era it was never brougfht up until MLB decided that the bad press was bad for the establishment. MLB has never made decisions based on good of the game, only good for MLB. At the end of the day players just built better mousetraps....
While Clemens, Bonds and many others may or may not have egaged in the use of steroids (never tested, so never tested positive) their accomplishments can not be just deleted from history as society wants to do with everything else tahat is feels is controversial.
The same media that is bashing some players and not others with either reasonable suspision or actual failed tests and bans are the same ones who with the same reasonable suspisions were hailing the players as saviors of the sport during their playing years.
As for Clemens himself, he is statistics clearly show that he was one of the top 5-6 pitchers in baseball history. Many dominant years and longevity (regardless whether PEDS helped)
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