Along with Alex Rodriguez’s admission of using performance—enhancing—drug use came a tidal wave of public and media scrutiny.

Really?

I love how steroids have only recently become so immoral.

If I’m not mistaken, I watched the entire country rally behind two of the most juiced-up athletes I’ve ever seen in 1998.

I’m referring, of course, to Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire.

If you honestly believed in your heart of hearts that those two added 50 pounds of muscle from some added time in the gym, then your ignorance has no limitations.

Now all of a sudden everyone thinks they should be left out of the Hall of Fame.

Last time I checked, steroids were considered an illegal substance throughout Sosa and McGwire’s pursuit of Roger Maris.

Rick Reilly wrote an article in 1998 for Sports Illustrated chronicling the home run chase in the form of a letter to his granddaughter.

He described the games in our country as, as “pure and shiny as I’d ever seen them.”

How he saw the pureness of the game when he wasn’t looking is beyond me.