[Alberta's Child]

I frimly believe that Major League Baseball has never recovered from the 1994 strike. That was the last year I paid my way into a big-league game (I did go to one game on a company outing, though), and I maintained a semi-disinterested detachment from the game even as my formerly beloved Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in professional sports over the last 12 years.

MLB basically looked the other way as steroid use became widespread in the 1990s -- mainly because ridiculous offensive numbers were good for business.

Kirby Puckett, Don Mattingly, Ozzie Smith, and Tony Gwynn . . . baseball lost a bit of its nostalgic charm with each of these retirements, and it's never been the same since.

[Dolphy]

MLB basically looked the other way as steroid use became widespread in the 1990s -- mainly because ridiculous offensive numbers were good for business.

Absolutely...and there is something unseemly about the race to distance themselves from the men whose backs they rode.