Originally posted by PhlabibitEven if true, that means that MLB didn't think it desirable to ban steroids for competitive advantage reasons, so they didn't. Hence, their use at the time couldn't possibly be a deliberate violation of the rules of baseball to gain a competitive advantage i.e. cheating.
You confuse "didn't think" with "turned blind eye". The steroid monsters were getting fans in the seats, and that's what MLB wanted at the time.
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