Michael Gee hits my thoughts on steroids in sports pretty much spot on, and adds a theory about the proper discount in baseball’s PED era:

Several years ago, I came up with an unscientific but satisfactory method of accounting for PEDs at election time. I discount a player’s stats from the Steroid Era (roughly 19993-2004), by approximately 20 percent as raw numbers. The continuing increase in evidence that users outnumbered users by a 10-1 margin during that period may, if anything, make me reduce the discount. If a ‘roided-up slugger takes a ‘roided-up pitcher deep, what exactly was his competitive advantage?

In short, my policy is more or less amnesty. If everyone’s cheating, nobody’s cheating, because cheating only makes sense if you’re doing something your opponent isn’t. I’m sure we’re just days away from a report that some undernourished specimen like David Eckstein tested positive, too. It’s only logical. If the stars were taking PEDs, the benchwarmers, middle relievers, and September 1 call-ups would have had to be either puritanical or daft not to be taking even more PEDs than the big fellas.