Amazing hitter
could care less about the PED use, all of baseball used it
Saved baseball
People forget that baseball was on its way to becoming the "NHL" as we see it now around the time that the Marlins won the WS in 97'. (Meaning games being broadcasted on stations no one has heard of like "Versus" or random "NBC" affiliates because the sport was dying slowly) In 1998, when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire went shot for shot chasing the HR record created more buzz for the sport then anything. (coupled with the Yankees dynasty) Add that to the year that Barry hit 70 HRs and the sport was back. They knew those mofos were taking something.
And now they want to pretend like that era never happened even though the owners and the commish all got rich off of it. Lol.
And now the sport is back to where it was 20 years ago. **** near dying slowly. Esp now that the "marquee" names are starting to retire or get old. (Jeter/Arod/Pujols, etc)