[Jerry Helper]

It's just so hard to know who did what. At this point, it seems almost naive to assume that all but a very few stars from that era weren't juicing. There are the obvious ones who literally morphed into different human beings, like Bonds, Sosa and Brett Boone. But then there countless guys who publicly failed tests or who were named in the 2003 drug tests who never really had a body transformation. I'm not sure that just because someone didn't turn into the hulk it means that they never juiced. Look at someone like Andy Pettitte.

I guess I'm just a cynic after watching player after player lie about this, only to be proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. Bonds, ARod, Clemens, McGwire, even someone like Braun from the later years. It's hard not to look at any eye popping numbers from the 90s or early 00s and wonder. I'm sure people will disagree with this, but what about someone like Luis Gonzalez in 2001? This is a guy who never hit more than 31 home runs in a season, who suddenly hit 57, a mark only 4 other men had ever hit in the history of baseball before the steroid era. And he hit it the same year Bonds hit 73 and Sosa hit over 60? Cmon. You have to jump through more hoops to think that was a coincidence than to assume he was probably juiced.

Also, there will never be the amount of evidence on another player that compares with what Bonds has against him. And that's because Bonds had an entire book written about him by two investigative reporters. He was the best, so that's what happened. But I'm convinced that if two investigative reporters from a top tier newspaper decided to write a book on any of these other guys, they'd end up with the same proof. It's just that Bonds was the only one worth the time or money