Back to the subject, Rocker is probably more right than anyone admits even if he doesn't express it well. How much mileage did MLB get from the McGwire-Sosa home run chase and Bonds' all-time records? How many pitchers got more life on their fastballs because they were juicing?
If it were not for the known harmful side effects, cumulatively and initially, plus the example it sets for young men trying to be like their sports heroes, steroids wouldn't really be a problem.
I've often said the only difference between steroid abuse and Tommy John surgery is that one is done under doctor's care and the other isn't but both often leave you with an artificially-enhanced better baseball player than what you started with. So why is one of them "cheating" and the other isn't?
If steroids could be mainstreamed and done under the care of physicians, would it still be "cheating"? If it's out in the open and everybody knows, is it still "cheating"? Cheating those who set records before the steroid era, certainly, but there have been a ton of medical advancements the players of yesteryear didn't have from laser eye surgery to arthroscopic surgery. Why would regulated and control steroid therapy/training be any different?
I miss the old Mile High Stadium.