Perfect ending to steroid era

The mistrial in the Roger Clemens perjury trial has provided the best ending to the steroid era.

It was suggested by the trial that no one was definitively guilty and undeniably innocent.

From News-sentinel.com:

Performance-enhancing baseball probably started earlier than we realize, hit its stride with the bogus Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa love fest and peaked when Barry Bonds' head was mistaken for an entrant in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Very few elite power hitters from the performance-enhancing era emerged unscathed, with Ken Griffey Jr., Frank Thomas and Jim Thome being the most prominent apparently clean hitters to come to mind.

Few admitted guilt. McGwire did so only in order to return to the field as Cardinals' hitting coach. Sosa not only failed to remember any encounter with steroids, he forgot how to speak English. Andy Pettitte came clean and was largely forgiven, as was Jason Giambi. Bonds stuck to never “knowingly” using performance enhancers. Clemens denied, denied, denied.

But the era, like the Clemens trial, came to an abrupt, unsatisfying end. Now we don't know which records are legitimate, although Bonds' regular-season and career home-run marks will never resonate like 60 or 61, 714 or 755. Most can still recall Bonds' 73 in a year. Do most people know his career total? I had to look it up. It's 762.

With this trial, the final unsatisfying chapter of the steroid era is all closed now.