Steroids next victim; who would hurt the most?

to baseball’s reputation would be to find out that not only was it a systemic problem among players, but that union and league officials knew how rampant steroid use was, yet did nothing about it, and actually signed players that were known users inside baseball circles.

To me, that would be more damaging to the game…and wouldn’t surprise me one bit. There are already allegations that Gene Orza tipped off some players about upcoming pee tests.

used PEDs but who the hell knows. I think Pujols would shock me, though.

would yield the biggest blow to baseball.

He’s the one guy I would bet money is NOT linked to steroids.

Imagine the chaos if he were!!!!

I would be worried about D-Lee and Soto .. and a lesser extent Ramirez. I would be alittle shocked if Soriano used them.

but at this point nobody would surprise me.

because that would add insult to insult.

Griffey, Johnson, Smoltz, Glavine, Chipper Jones, among the big stars.

Oh in case anyone missed it in another thread my favorite “defense” of why a reporter for the San Jose Mercury
is sure Maddux never took steroids ( He was #1 one on the list )

1. Greg Maddux: Adding oomph to the fastball would have hurt his game. Plus, as the Mercury News’ Daniel Brown sagely notes, "Anybody whose physique could pass for a sports writer’s seems beyond suspicion."

along with any Cubs. Typically (not always) steroids are going to make you bigger. you can see that in Bonds, Sosa, and McGwire. With that in mind, I don’t see Maddux, DLee, A-Ram, or Junior Griffey having took steroids but who knows.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3017957919029122909

Except for Maddux. Maybe Pedro and Glavine.

I agree with the first poster. No single player, except maybe Pujols, is all that damaging now that A-Rod is out. The real issue will be if it comes out that the union AND owners collaborated and covered it up, or worse, encouraged guys to take them.

But here’s who would be personally damaging to me.

Ryne Sandberg. After the speech he gave at his HoF induction, he’d just better be clean.

Andre Dawson.

Those are my only two heroes left. The rest of them can go to hell.

…so, yeah, Albert.

To throw another name out there, Tim Lincecum. He’s made his name on his unique mechanics, refused to ice his arm after games … in many ways, Tiny Tim represents a 21st Century approach to pitching. If he was implicated, the game would be set back quite a ways, though he obviously wouldn’t get ARod’s press.

would be to find out that the test results were not correct, and that those admitting actually did not have a positive test result (they passed, or were not tested). This would reflect worse IMO on all those involved. Test results can get mislabled, it has happened before, who is to think it cant happen again.

I am not saying that it happened once, just thinking outloud about how bad that would reflect on everyone.

Mariano Rivera
Randy Johnson

After all the sanctimonious crying for asterisks, the waxing nostalgic about how their childhood heroes did it the natural way, the judgemental and vindictive outing of sealed results and testimony -

After all of that the big shocking Act III reveal is that the sportswriters themselves were using the whole time – without their knowledge!!!!

MAN RAM

Cal Ripken Jr. would be devastating to the game of baseball.

Because imagine how bad he would have been w/o the juice.

does that officially make Maddux the best pitcher of his era?

I am sure there could be arguments made for others, but I would have to say Maddux should be crowned.

take time to read all 131 comments. So if this is mentioned ignore me or forgive me. I would be more surprised at how many fringe players would be on that list. It is a shame to think that because a player of fine caliber had been using. How many players that barely would make a roster took ’em? Maybe more than we would think.

more of a type of player.

I don’t want to point fingers, but any player that was a defensive, speed, singles player without much power for more than a few years and became a station to station HR hitter is already suspect. There are many examples of this with players who “changed their workout habits” in the late 90’s.

Guys that started hitting for power and average are less suspect to begin with. Mays, Mantle, Jackson, fit this mold and so did A-Rod.

A-Rod was the great hope for a “clean” player to erase the false stats achieved over the last 15 years and bring some integrity back to baseball’s record book.

Now that he’s gone, we may have to wait for a long time before Bonds’ HR record is eclipsed by a clean player. It’s heartbreaking.