I AM SOOOOOOO SICK OF ALL THE ROID STORIES, IT IS WHAT IT IS AND NOTHING CAN CHANGE THAT. PLAYERS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT AND MORE WILL, LETS JUST ENJOY THE BEST GAME IN THE WORLD AND MOVE ON. CHEATERS ARE IN ALL SPORTS SO DONT THINK ANY SPORT IS CLEAN. GET OVER IT PLEASE AND ENJOY THE GAMES USING YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT AND NOT THE MEDIA GOONS.

I gotta be honest, If Albert Pujols ever is found to have taken steroids, I will be crushed.  However, I will continue to watch the game as an eternal optimist that one day the sport will clean itself up.

As long as I don't find out the guy selling beer in the stands is using PEDs then I'm good. Hell....let's be honest. I would still go to watch. 

I would be disappointed, but it would have no impact on my love for baseball as a sport. I don't love baseball because of the people who play it. If anything, it's the other way around. I appreciate those people's abilities because I love baseball. I'll turn my back on a  player, but not on the sport.

Another roids story!.......Please excuse me while I bang my head on some wall!

How about the fact that baseball is boring as hell to watch compared to football and basketball.

I have to admit that if Griffey or many of the stars from the late 80's used PED's, it would bother me.  I'm trying to evolve my position though, because a truly "purist" stance might cripple baseball indefinitely.   Wojciechowski has been writing for years, so maybe he's not thinking in the long-term. 

See... if that's really how you feel about watching baseball, that's a MUCH better reason to hate it.

Wojciechowski is an idiot because this should be an article about Pujols, not Jeter. And he's an idiot for other reasons too.

Jim Thome. I would have a hard time believing that he DIDN'T take steroids at some point in his career.

 The only ped I could see Jeter using would be Viagra

Have mistakes been made? Of course. But then again, who hasn't made a mistake? Hell, Gene made one when he wrote this article.

I lol'd.

Seriously though, I would be a little surprised if it turned out Jeter had used, but I wouldn't lose my faith in humanity. Sports are something I watch for entertainment... I don't hold athletes up on some pedestal and look to them for moral values.

Really?  You mean ...  Bounce bounce  bounce bounce two bounce  bounce bounce two bounce  bounce bounce two bounce  bounce bounce two bounce  bounce bounce two whistle free shots repeat... ISN'T boring?

You HAD to go there?

I am with Pat here.  Not so much that the article is offensive.  I have moved past that feeling long ago.  It is now just tiresome, short sighted, and reeks of the "hollier-than-thou" writer moaning about steroids as if no player ever in the history of the game ever tried any kind of quick fix to attempt to improve their game.

For some reason, only writers seem bothered by the steroid thing as a group.  Maybe it's because there is no steroid to make them write or talk better or to get them a bigger paycheck?  Fans (again, as a group) just don't seem to give a damn.

Steroids isn't the total reason why I no longer have faith in baseball anymore.  It is the straw that broke the camel's back though.

amen to that.  however, after reading the entire article, one has to conclude that gene has got to have the biggest man-crush on derek jeter that anyone has ever had.

If any player gets a positive test it would not surprise me... it's part of the game and has been for some time even when we embraced it back in '98.

A lot of these people who are so against steroids and their use in baseball are the same people who were cheering and jumping for joy 11 years ago when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa made their assault on Roger Maris' single season home run record. 

No worries about PED's......cybernetics is the next technology that will be used in sports; such implants will make PED's look like baby aspirin.

steroids are the only reason players hit so many HR's, without steroids baseball would be boring...steroids should be the HR King 

I grew up on baseball and football.. & with all the issues with football players over the years- I've never lost a love for the game.. This is the first real issue baseball has actually ever had- so I doubt I'll lose the love that I have for it.. Especially since it appears they've long corrected the issue.  It's not like these are recent test we're finding out about.. This was years ago.

I guess I'm saying, it doesnt appear that you can be a true fan if you can stop loving the sport bcuz a few players made mistakes in the past..

I doubt if very many would drop baseball if Jeter or anybody else turned up in the roidhood.  Most of us average Americans, whether we admit it or not,  Have our heroes.  It would hurt Joe/Jane  Average if his hero if his/her hero turned up using the needle, etc.  It would take some time getting over it but he/she would not give up on baseball IMHO. Coming from a different era, Mickey was my hero.  As I grew older and saw his weaknesses it took me back.  After a while and some pondering he was still my hero and I still follow BB.

Yet, Hank Aaron set the all time home run record without 'roids' that's lasted since 1976, and Babe Ruth's season home run record was untouched until Mark McGuire.

Nope, no such thing as home runs before the 'roids'.

How bout we just move forward.There is a reason why the names were with held.It would not surprise me if it was infact the BITTER Canseco leaking the names.Time to move on.There is a better plan in place for testing.So moving forward..

Hey, I'm all for everyone on the juice, aluminum bats, tightly wound balls, 250-ft outfield fences, astro turf. How about doing away with pitchers and just put balls on tees. NOT!!!!

I don't hate steroids. I hate how their use overshadows the rest of the game.

Correction to the above information:  In 1998, Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris' record that stood since 1961.  Before Roger Maris broke his record, Babe Ruth had the record from the 1927 season.  Sorry for the wrong information in my previous post.

In B. Ruth and H. Aaron time majority of food was done homemade.  These days so many chemicals are in foods people bodys react differently to those foods.  Furthermore, instead of giving people something that can cure something they will pay sciencetist to make a medical drug that will provide a bunch of side effects, so then you have to take more medical drugs to help stop, or prolong the side effects.  You have herbs out there that stops/cure medical conditions, but the (legal drug dealers pharamacutical comapanies/ government) do not want that information out, (ex: please rent or buy and show students the movie Tucker the car that will never break down the cars all exist till today) government stop Tucker claim it would put people out of jobs like mechanics.  In 2005 before hurraine katrina there were no job openings at certain jobs really no one was hiring.  After the hurricaine hit people of Louisiana where a little everywhere.  In Houston, Texas a job fair was held all who were not hiring now have job openings, I thought it was nothing.  Welfare had a waiting list, after hurricaine katrina all welfare had openings, but I thought it was nothing. When someone wants to invent to make the people lives better, and Tucker is not the 1st and will not be the last to invent/create something that will better people lives, government will come in for the wrong reasons to stop what is best in the long run. Why do I have to go to a whole food store to get the best foods that is good for our bodies, you can not just go to a regular food store to get this things.  If something wrong with me as a sports player when seeing the doctor, once the doctor tells me whats wrong and if a player has to take medication that cause all these side effects and I have to (play/go to work)  doctor says ok well if you do not want to feel nausea, depress, or have blur vision because of the mediation your taken, the doctor gives more meds to take.  Some medications will mess up your liver and kidneys, so dieting and working out, and taking these medications causing all these side effects does not keep all in perfect body conditions, these days our bodys go through alot, I wish we could have 4 day work week, a 6 hour shift instead an 8 hr, but it was the Unions-AFL and CIO with the NLRB  that help get an 8hr work day, I do thank them for that, but going back to an bullet by your name at the hall of fame no its not the players fault they had a contract they sign/commitment, so should the palyer say hey I cannot (play/go to work today) I am on to many meds, or my body not like it use to be, just not feeling well today, can I sit this season out, yeah right OK WHO FAULT IS THIS IS SURE IN HELL NOT  WE THE PEOPLE.

I can speak needing energy, I take thyroid, water pill, and diet pill, plus a B-12 or Omeag-3 shot twice a month.  Since college I train my self not to eat after 7pm, and no fast food or red meats and fry foods.  Guess what I got married had a baby all that went out the door.  After giving birth with in year back to regular weight.  All the sudden after I start back to work and with in six months I am gaining weight.  No I am not eating in fast foods, yes I am working out.  My body started to change, and you cannot help that your body getting older.  Now as I said to keep up with family and work, home, my activities, family activites, and other things I have to be on the pills provided by my doctor I mention above I feel like SUPER GIRL, CATWOMEN, AND WONDER WOMEN.  I am not tired so when my son needs me to do this, husband, home,school,work,play or anything else I am on it.  After I eat lunch like most people they need to sleep or nape I don't I am ready for whats next. cause you try to come home, you will not sit down cause you have a soccer game, baseball, football game etc. to weekdays on to weekends when do you get rest, and if you have more than one kid that is active you do not get rest.  A human needs rest  and energy to think and to work to pay bills.  Pat I don't know if you have family but if you don't when you do you will know exactly what I am talking about cause an adult energy is nothing compared to a kids/toddler energy, and if they sold a toddler energy yes I would buy it. I just feel like none of these guys where like the 6 million dollar man or the bionic women, or robo cop, me I do not see nothing to it because it wasn't that long PEDs were sold in GNC stores, and as long as body building is aroung PEDs will be too. 
For one I can speak on being a stay home mom its one of the hardest jobs, when I was a stay home mom for a year when my son ws an infant I could not feed myself watching and taking care of him and the house hold.  At least at work you can get a lunch break I bought slim fast so I can at least drink something with vitimins and minerals casue I did not have time to just break and feed myself.  The steroids I just do not see nothing wrong with it unless like I mention if the person was like robo cop, 6 million dollar man, or the bionic women then yes they should be called to the carpet.

I couldn't agree more about moving forward.

The goal of any athlete is to maintain daily competitiveness. Today's athletes simply use different methods than their predecessors did. Many books have been written and numerous stories have been told about what past athletes (mostly Hall Of Fame members) did off the field before "the steroid era". Those athletes have been praised and glorified for their on-field performances. Today's athletes are villified and abhored for doing the same things. Elitist fans and "baseball purists" need to accept that today's great athletes understand nutrition and weight training and that they use knowledge gained from the internet to hone their bodies into athletic machines. The amazing numbers some of them achieve are not obtained solely by using any type of drug, but by compiling and adhering to an efficient training schedule and by taking advantage of today's bandbox ballparks.

Bottom line.The media is not always right.They can and will say anything to gain notoriety.They don't even have to have proof because of the fact they will never reveal their sources.My advice is to make your own unbiased assumptions about the game.example.. media gets a tip that a certain ball player tested positive for a banned substance...next thing you know  he smacked out his girlfriend and ran away with his dope dealer.I take everything with a grain of salt when coming from the media.The media don't care what they say.Because they never have to back it up.And if it comes to a lawsuit so be it.They pay and move on to the next sap they are going to attack at will.

umm ya forgot corked bats. :)

Thank you for the clarity.  Mantle and Mays weighed around 188 in the peak of their careers, they'd be dwarfed by 50% of the 2nd basemen in the game now, the lowered mound, tiny parks and diluted pitching talent, when combined with bigger, stronger athletes would have produced big HR numbers even without PEDs.  When you add in the fact that the salaries now allow players to work year-round at the game instead of selling, suits, insurance or working for liquor distributors as players did until the 70's, all these things taken collectively are a bigger factor than PEDs.  The game changes and yet remains baseball, that flexibility while maintaining a sense of permanence is part of baseball’s appeal.  

its not boring if you know what the game is about. i bet you watch womens synchronized spitting or one legged man butt kicking championships religiously :)