When did baseball become a welfare state? The Cardinals earned their championship.
Amen. I'm grouchy that the Cards beat my Tigers, but they won fair and square.
The bastards!
McGuire should be a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame based on his statistics alone. He is quite similar to Harmon Killebrew, though Killebrew could play more positions and had no suspicions of steroid use.
Since McGuire is a nice guy and not a total prick like Barry Bonds, I'm inclined to take him at his word that he didn't use steroids. He did tail off rather spectacularly after his 65 homerun 1999 season which indicates that even if he were juicing, he gave it up long before he had to.