Steroids part 2

Just when Baseball thought that it has cleaned up its act and rid the sport of steroids another huge star tested positive on a random drug test. On Sunday, Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Manny Ramirez failed a drug test and later admitted to using performance enhancing drugs. This comes after Manny had been given a 20 million dollar new contract during the off season.

Along with the recent admittance by Alex Rodriguez, and the positive testings of Andy Pettite, Jason Giambi, and Roger Clemmens it is becoming a safe assumption that many more players than we can imagine have used steroids during their career. The question then becomes is the era that has come to be known as the Steroid Era completely tarnished. Should every record set during this time be thrown out.

While that might be radical many people are proposing that we should put an asterisk next to any record set over the past decade. Personally I don't have a huge problem with records being set with players who were on steroids. First of all so many players were doing it at the time that it was basically an even playing ground. Barry Bonds who allegedly took steroids hit seven home runs off Andy Pettite, which is tied for second most against any pitcher. Andy Pettite has already admitted to taking steroids and Bonds clearly won that battle.


Last, steroids were not illegal when all these players were using them. How can we discredit the achievements of players who were only giving themselves an advantage by something that was legal at the time. Although we should not look highly upon past steroid users we should in no way let it taint their records.