While taking steroids isn't going to enable everyone to hit 60+ home runs in a season it may enhance the ability of someone who couldn't otherwise do it. For Babe Ruth it seems to have been something in the beer, hot dogs or cigars that did the trick. I wonder if McGuire or Sosa could have broken the records without the performance enhancing drugs ?

I recall that Floyd Landis in his tour "win" was more or less out of the running after a really bad day. The following day he came back like gangbusters in the mountain stages and left everyone in the dust. At the close of that day's race people found it incredible that he could have performed at that level drug free and of course it turned out he was indeed "on" something. So maybe I'm one of those "born every minute" but I give Lance the benefit of the doubt. If it turns out that he was "dirty" I'll feel as I did when I found out there isn't a Santa Claus after all.