Their decision to use came in a very, very, very different time, when reporters were nationally chastised for talking
about androstenedione and Bud Selig was unequivocally thrilled that an armada of big, beefy baseball boys was helping people forget about the strike owners caused.
The sporting press, after ignoring steroids for decades, even turning on one of their own for writing
about Mark McGwire's use of
androstenedione in 1998, * made a sudden 180 - degree turn only a few years later.