yeah, everyone called it the steroid era for a reason. everyone was roiding. now that memories of JAGs have faded, all the focus is on the standouts and people seem to have lost the understanding that it was the entire culture at that time. no one bitches about ken caminiti, luis gonzalez, troy glaus and whatever other dude ballooned up and hit 40 blasts out of nowhere anymore because no one remembers those guys. no one remembers that nobody could keep an ERA under 3.50. everyone suddenly had 4 guys in their lineup that looked like canseco. that's what frustrates me. all the moralizing is post hoc finger wagging when we were all laughing about it at the time.
Here's an article from 1995. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-07-15-sp-24265-story.html
lulz at this quote.
lulz at selig: i personally don't think steroids even exist, at least so long as we are making a ton of money off them. perhaps later we can pin it on someone after the checks have cleared and i'm dead.