Major League Baseball is likely at the tail end of a scandalous era in which numbers were artificially inflated, records broken, and the players generally appeared superhuman. The era was defined by steroids, and it produced an era of tarnished reputations. Yet, the steroids era resulted in wild popularity and business success for the MLB. The National Hockey League is also suffering from an epidemic of super sized athletes and juiced-up statistics. However, in hockey, the problem is not anything illegal; but nor is it good for business. In hockey, it's the pads that are juiced.

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