| deej, you're actually wrong. That'd be a dull quiz. This topic definitely doesn't lend itself to relying on the verifiable, and even what truly constitutes verification is in doubt, since so much of this is based on hearsay and anonymous reports and leaks from anonymous sources. Very few have been caught failing a drug test - almost two entire generations of baseball, however, were cheating. Nearly all the best players, at the plate and on the mound, were cheating. Clemens, Pettitte, Tejada, Gagne, Pudge Rodriguez, Sheffield, Giambi, ARod, Luis Gonzalez, Manny Ramirez, Sosa, Palmiero, McGwire, Canseco, Ankiel, Brian Roberts, Bret Boone, Benny Santiago, Gary Matthews, Matt Williams, Ken Caminiti, Troy Glaus. That's a tiny fraction of the players I've heard reported at various times. How many MVPs in there? Cy Youngs? And even many of the guys I haven't heard reported in any official connection, are obvious candidates to have used - Piazza, Bagwell, Pujols, Albert Belle, David Ortiz, Adrian Beltre, the entire Blake Street Bombers lineup (Bichette, Burks, Castilla, Galarraga, Walker), Nomar, Jeff Kent, Jim Edmonds, Juan Gone, Brady Anderson, Carlos Delgado. And on and on, and even the list of obvious suspects like that wouldn't include pitchers, since besides maybe a Mark Prior case, no one would even really know what to look for. It's a lost generation, it's just a shame it can't be stricken from the record books. |