The joke is the "steroid era"& baseball's hallowed records.

First steroids have been around a long time. Players flipped when Boston OF Fred Lynn reported after his rookie year. He had gained a ton of muscle & was popping the ball out of the park. Performance enhancing drugs do include 'amphetamines' and they have been around a long long time. Steroids used to be legal in the sixties. They were sold off the shelf at Sal's Sporting Goods in the 60's, & yes athletes did take them. I've known ball players who played in the late 60's who took dianabol. The change was personal trainers and gyms available after games on the home & on the road. The benefits became huge.

Baseball records went to the wayside when they lowered the pitcher's mound. Now all pitchers are clones of each other. Tall robots that can throw decent velocity. Few pitchers under a certain size. The days of Eddie Shantz and Warren Spahn are over. Pitching is a big man's game with the lowered mound.

Spare me the piety about baseball records. The game was segregated and the records may have been held by many of the black ball players who couldn't get on the field. It's a great game & I marvel at the plays I see made in the field. Guys come in to play in shape. I doubt we ever see another Smokey Burgess silhouette on the field.

This crap - along with caricatured salaries - have ruined baseball. Oh, to go back to the fifies and sixties. Baseball, as America's favorite sport, is, alas, no more.

KC, it's sure not the players anybody cares much about.

The individual players.

It's the game.

You could put anybody or anything in the positions, and there would be a fair share of brilliant plays.

Fact is, cheaters are making lots of them.

Still a great game.

Played by a high percentage of punks and bums.