New to baseball, are you? Ever heard of Gaylord Perry? Corked bats? (I laughed out loud when Sosa's shattered and sprayed the contents of my old desk at work onto the field. Norm Cash, from 1961, was also proud of his loaded bat, so it isn't a new idea.) Stealing signs from the catcher? Denny McClain asking Mickey Mantle where to throw the ball to give him a HR to climb above Jimmy Foxx on the all-time HR list? (to 5th at the time, now 13th) Scuffing balls for the pitcher? Pine tar? Vaseline? MLB itself juicing the balls in 1998, including the one hit for McGwire's 70th? Performance-enhancing cheats are nothing new to that game.
How many games, wins, strikeouts, big names, etc do you want to toss out?
They always said that it’s not cheating if you don’t get caught as far as baseball goes. It remains to be seen but there’s a pretty good chance that Bonds, Clemens, McGuire, Sosa, et al. may have gotten caught.
Okay, let's accept all of that openly. The Chicago Black Sox too. Let's agree that baseball is fake. I'm okay with that. Just as long as it's acknowledged.