i don't like the argument that players back in the day rocked 'performance enhancement drugs'
we're comparing bennies aka speed with the highly sophisticated supplements of today. steroids have little to do with it. it has nothing to do with the juice arnold took back in the day either. i saw so many heads in college with kitchens full of the illest shit which made many of my homies huge. they've all lost significant bulk since they all stopped taking most of the shit they were taking.

but nor do i think that the supplements these players are taking is what's ruining the game, IF by ruining the game we are talking about the argument that some like mushnick advance that today's gaudy offensive records are meaningless because everyone is putting up big numbers plus we've lost the ability to compare players across eras. there are far more factors, including the much smaller parks of the past 10 years versus the past 40, that have led to the offensive explosion.