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You can't just look at the championships either. You have to look at the teams defeated. It's not as though the teams the Red Sox, Yankees, or any other championship team from the era BEAT didn't have steroid users. Please. You can't just ignore the whole epidemic and focus on 2 guys, regardless of what they did.
So is it better to have lost while having steroid users than win? Are they any more guilty because they beat other tainted teams?
It's hard to look at it so black and white.
There's also different levels of performance enhancers. Don't know what the full story is. I'm not making excuses. His name is now tainted and it sucks, but I'm not entirely convinced that he was using them on the level of a Bonds or McGwire, nor am I convinced that he was using them from 2004 onward.
I'm not saying he didn't. Due to the boy who cried wolf factor you have to say he probably was, but there is also such thing as isolated incidents and mistakes.
Rationally thinking, I find it hard to believe that anyone would use steroids from 2004 onward. 2003 was when the whole steroid blew up, and any reasonable human being who was using them, or something close to it, would stop. That's why I'm inclined to believe Ortiz and even A Rod when they say they've been clean since then. Doesn't absolve them of what they did, but I guess I give the benefit of the doubt that they have a shred of common sense. Even a moron would know not to continue.
But there are some stupid people....
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