Why Should We Assume that Everybody in Major League Baseball Used Steroids?
into the hysteria. Any time somebody mentions a good player or accomplishment from the “steroid era” someone points out “well you have to assume everybody was on steroids at the time.” No, I don’t. I don’t need any proof that so and so didn’t use steroids to be able to say they are a great player. That’s totally backwards from how our country is supposed to work. A person is innocent until proven guilty not guilty until proven innocent. I understand that there wasn’t testing for steroids and so far the test that Alex Rodriguez failed is anonymous so for some athletes you can make an educated guess. But there are hundreds of baseball players that there is not even educated guessing proof. I’m not about to accuse every player that had a spike in their stats for a season. Brady Anderson breaking out for 50 home runs is better obvious, but plenty of other players in the history of baseball have just had career seasons that were abnormal. It probably happens in all walks of life. It happene
