Sammy was juiced (yawn)

Sammy was juiced (yawn)

The State Journal-Register, Springfield, Ill.: No region in the country was more riveted by the 1998 Mark McGwire-vs.-Sammy Sosa home run chase than was central Illinois. In an area historically split in baseball loyalty between the Cardinals and Cubs, the Sosa-McGwire power display tossed a fascinating daily firework into the always intense divisional rivalry.

Who could have imagined back then that what we were really watching was more a display of modern pharmaceutical achievement than of amazing athletic accomplishments? ...

It says a lot about our attitude about steroids and other such substances in baseball that most of us barely raised an eyebrow at the New York Times report recently that says Sosa tested positive for using a banned substance in 2003.