When Mark McGwire broke Babe Ruth's home run record in 1998, America celebrated the return of baseball after the devastating 1994 strike. What fans didn't know was that a bottle of androstenedione sat openly in McGwire's locker - a steroid precursor banned everywhere except Major League Baseball. This episode reveals how baseball's steroid era wasn't an accident but a calculated conspiracy to save a dying sport. After losing 800 million dollars and 60% of fans to the strike, MLB systematically enabled performance enhancement through institutional blindness, media complicity, and union protection. From shortened ballpark dimensions to manipulated strike zones, from team doctors prescribing HGH to reporters avoiding obvious questions - everyone who mattered conspired to make heroes superhuman. The real scandal wasn't that players used steroids; it's that baseball needed them to.












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