Also, I posted before I read the article, and I completely agree with Downey's take on Sammy. He has never failed a drug test, he didn't back down at Congress, he declared that he never took steroids (albeit through an interpretor, but who cares), and the only mistake he made was with the corked bat. However, what proof do we actually have that a corked bat makes the ball go farther? As far as I know, we have none (if I'm wrong on this, please correct me). Plus, this quote from the article is more telling to me than the actual corked bat: