Today on a local sports radio show, one of the guys said that 6 of the top 7 players on the active career home run list have been linked to steroids, and the exception was Pujols. He kept repeating this over and over on my ten minute drive home from lunch, so it wasn't just an isolated misstatement or me mishearing him.
I instantly recognized about 37 incorrect things about this statement, and keep in mind I'm not the one who is getting paid to know things about sports. In fact, I'm currently turning my brain inside out in order to accommodate an entire state's legal system, and most of my other knowledge and expertise is currently gathering a considerable amount of dust.
Anyway, (and firstly) I knew Griffey was the active leader with 600+ homers, and Thome had to be in the top 7, and neither of them were connected to steroids. So that's two non-juicers right there, in addition to Pujols.
However (and secondly), I highly doubted Pujols had already reached the top seven in the active leader list.
Third, this list sounds like it includes guys like McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, and Palmeiro. Toward the end, he even referenced "Sosa and Palmeiro" being on the list, yet still not swaying from calling it the "active" list. This makes the inclusion of Pujols even worse because I knew Pujols hasn't hit anywhere near 500 home runs, which he'd need to to be on this "past decade" list. Plus, Griffey still has to be on whatever list he's using, and he's clean. So, the list he's actually describing is more like "most homers from guys who played in the past decade not named Ken Griffey, Jr., plus Albert Pujols."
When I got home I pulled up the real list of active home run leaders. Here it is:
1. Griffey (clean)
2. A-Rod (dirty)
3. Thome (clean)
4. Manny (dirty)
5. Sheffield (dirty)
6. Delgado (clean)
7. Chipper Jones (clean)
What? No, Pujols? Shocking! Turn's out he's down at #13. And four clean to three dirty, not one to six? Again, I AM SHOCKED.
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