Superchuck, I think you missed the full story: Miggy has been tested 3 times this year and is clean. His b-12 was tested before any of Rafy's comments went public (hence Miggy wouldn't have time to cheat), so Rafy is just a bastard trying to point fingers elsewhere. Furthermore, Miggy has been one of the biggest advocates in getting MLB to make sure steroid policies get full translation to spanish and explanation in spanish during training camps in the spring.

As for athletes not knowing what they're putting in their mouths, maybe at the high school level, but you when you make millions of dollars a year due to your body and not your brain, you know damn well what goes in and out of your body. Especially because the most famous baseball players get death threats and hate mail every day, there are plenty of bastards out there who would pay to have these guys hurt or off'ed completely. When we consider Barry Bonds, he acknowledges he doesn't like white people in general, he's the reverse of Manix, and yet his Balco boy is white. You think he doesn't know what he's taking from a white boy, no way in hell. Especially if you combine the fact that Barry gets hate mail and death threats from white racists all the time (he's talked about that plenty in interviews). Sorry, i just don't buy that guys getting paid millions a year for what their body does, and guys who actually have education and are smart, like the Bond's and Palmeiro's, don't know what's going into their bodies. I'd buy it if a teammate told a latin player whose brand new and can't speak a lick of english and can't afford a translator, "take these, they help with the pain after a game..." But, even then, over a prolonged period of time, the kid would realize there is something in that pill that's working its magic, and then wonder, especially when testing time came around, am I going to get caught.

That's my two cents, Raffy will forever be an Ass and Barry deserves to have his home run total frozen at 500. He would have hit 500 had he kept up his typical 30-HR a year pace with the occasional 40-HR year in there. Never would have gotten much higher though, that's for sure.