I don't care as a point of baseball statistics. All the performance enhancing drugs should be legal, in my opinion. Or make Tommy John surgery and laser eye correction illegal. Every record comes with its asterisks. And at the time they were taking them (assuming they've stopped) many weren't against baseball's rules or even against the law.
What bothers me most about the Sosa news (and the A Rod news before it) is that those drug tests were only agreed to because the results were supposed to remain completely confidential.
To the extent that it is now against baseball's official rules (even if I think it shouldn't be) I agree it should be punished and harshly. But I don't hold it against the game.
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