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Welcome to baseball, the only sport that could ban Pete Rose but not a drug many experts consider an anabolic steroid. Ah, it’s a beautiful game, and a beautiful summer in which baseball’s most prodigious slugger has given new meaning to “hitting the ol’ pill.”
Forget the days when you said a grooved pitch was right in a hitter’s kitchen. Now it’s in his medicine cabinet. I don’t want to be a Grinch in this historic chase to break a record held by a guy that nobody really liked anyway. But I don’t think we’re seeing a test of how many home runs Mark McGwire can hit in a season.
It looks instead like a test of how many home runs a chemically enhanced Mark McGwire can hit.