Carlton Fisk did not hold back when asked what he thought about players that used PEDs:
“You don’t blame people for not ratting them out; you blame the people who abused the pharmaceutical world,” Fisk said. “It’s not like you are taking a couple of aspirin and you don’t know what’s going on. (Non-prescription steroid use has been) a federal offense for a long time, regardless of whether baseball was recognizing it and putting rules into place. The people who did it … they were breaking the law to start with. It doesn’t have to be a baseball law. They knew what they were doing and the reason they were doing it. Now they are sorry because they are getting called out.”
Fisk also points out the long term damage the steroid era did to the game:
“And steroids, during that time, probably did as much to escalate players’ salaries as did free agency, as did arbitration, and all of that stuff. It did more than just put home runs up on the board or money in the guys’ pocket.”
As baseball salaries went up so did ticket and concession prices so fans were impacted too.
Joe Posnanski has a different look at the era and thinks players accusations like Pudge’s are not helping.
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