Andre Dawson took a poke at MLB over steroids, placing blame largely where it belongs:

"This was something that probably could have been nipped in the bud very early on, but it wasn't, as you know, in the best interest of baseball, so this is something that has come back to really bite them in the rear end," Dawson said. "I did what I had to do to play and get 20 years under my belt. I look back on it and I wouldn't do it any other way. I didn't need (steroids) in my body; I was blessed and talented and I took advantage of that."

The story also says, "Much has been written about how Dawson may have benefited from a voter backlash against players who came from the game's so-called 'steroids era.'"

Really? Or did Dawson have to wait nine years in part because his numbers didn't look quite so gaudy next to the numbers being put up in the late '90s and the early 2000s?

I would argue the latter.