re: Mark McGwire: "I could have hit 70 HRs without PEDs!"

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It's not like the pitchers of that era weren't juicing, also. I would say that the field was pretty level. Mac and Sammy's steroid use doesn't bother me at all.

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My post had nothing to do with whether or not he juiced and when he started. Just a fun little factoid that many probably don't know about McGwire. This was more in reference to him being a baseball prodigy all along and to one of the posters who said he never would have made it past AAA without PEDs. But, I personally do not think he started using PEDs until he got around Jose Canseco. McGwire wasn't small but he was fairly lean for his frame until he'd been in the MLB for a few years. I think he went in hardcore with PEDs at the tail end of his time in Oakland.