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FWIW, that comment in the first post was a joke. None of this even bothers me a tiny bit in any way, and as far as I'm concerned I view basically every athlete since the dawn of time with the same level of apprehension. Mike Schmidt is my hero, but I not only assume he was one of the many 70's Phillies who took amphetamines like Flinstones' vitamins, it would not surprise me in the least to find out that he was also taking anabolic steroids. It also wouldn't change my opinion of him one way or the other. Same with Mays, Aaron, Mantle, Santo, and anyone else who I love and who played during the steroid era.
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"I pretty much popped everything cold turkey. We were doing steroids they wouldn't give to horses."
-- Tom House
"In 1973, the year I first ran for Congress, the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce concluded a year-long investigation that found--and I quote--'drug use exists...in all sports and levels of competition...In some instances, the danger of improper drug use--primarily amphetamines and anabolic steroids--can only be described as alarming'"
-- Henry Waxman
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