Word: palmeiro
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...only former big leaguer with a beef. Today's hitters, thanks to smaller ballparks and steroids, hit far more home runs. Gossage contends that players from the 1970s and '80s whose numbers don't compare with those of modern-era hitters like Barry Bonds and Rafael Palmeiro (both of whom have denied knowingly using steroids) have been wrongfully overlooked--Andre Dawson and Jim Rice, to name a couple...
There was a doubleheader of sorts last week as bloggers ripped into the Baltimore Orioles' Rafael Palmeiro, first for testing positive for steroids five months after testifying before Congress that he had "never used steroids--period" and then for claiming that he had unknowingly ingested the 'roids...
...took a deep breath. "If a player answers no, he simply will not be believed," he said about the anticipated questions of his own steroid use. "If he answers yes, he risks public scorn and endless government investigations." So unlike fellow players on the panel, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, who flatly denied taking steroids, and Jose Canseco, an admitted abuser, McGwire essentially took the Fifth. Mighty McGwire, the man whose eclipse of Roger Maris' home-run record galvanized a nation and who became this magazine's 1998 Hero of the Year, tried to draw a walk rather than swing...
...opening day, drugs have dulled the allure. First, leaked grand jury testimony revealed that Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi had allegedly taken performance-enhancing drugs. (Bonds denied knowing those substances were steroids.) Then, in a splashy new book titled Juiced, Canseco wrote that he had injected McGwire and Palmeiro with steroids and noted that they were far from alone in their drug usage...