text: for a speech may i have the main big name steriod users in mlb.? i would like if you can the year that they most likley took them and made that big hr jump. i have bonds mcgwire palmerio  and giambi canseco, and  ken caminiti both admited using steroids. canseco's book and caminiti's admission was what broke open the steroids scandal in baseballe.   bonds and sosa may still face perjury charges over denial of steroid usage. bonds later admitted using steroids. he claimed he did not know the cream contained steroids. mcgwire used steroids before they were banned in baseball and has admitted to their use.   palmiero was caught in a steroid test by mlb.   grimsley has confirmed bond's steroid use as well as admitting he and many others used steroids.  so for those of you who still don't believe bonds used steroids you have bonds own admission, you have testimony from several players and you have the indictment of his trainer for giving the steroids to bonds and other athletes like giambi and sheffield.  what more do you need.  a big blinking sign over his head saying "i used steroids".    bonds is also the perfect model for steroid use. he was always a pretty decent power hitter. normally around 35 hrs a year. on a good year he got close to 40. one season he hit more than 40. then at an age when most players retire and he was looking very washed up. all of his stats had been in decline, there was even talk about whether he'd retire. what happens next is bonds suddenly has his best year of his career. hits more hrs than he'd ever hit in a single season. the next year pretty much doubles his previous best season. he was 36 or 37 when he did this.   sosa again shows the same kind of pattern. sosa was not scheduled to start in his break out year. also the year he's reputed to have started using steroids. sosa had been dumped on the cubs, his third team and the cubs were out of patience with him as well. sosa came very close to being released in the off season. then all of a sudden he started hitting with power out of nowhere. sosa credited his hitting instructor. everybody laughed and figured he was a fluke. he was too old to be a real prospect by then. instead sosa went on to win hr crowns and his famous battle with fellow steroid user mcgwire for the single season hr record.   gary sheffield and jason giambi were both implicated by testimony and with reasonable certainty can be called steroid users. i think giambi has even since admitted using them.   other big names have had rumors circulated about them. pettite and clemens were two but both of those rumors were refuted. pitchers gain little from steroid use and risk much. so few pitchers use them. curt schilling and kenny rogers are two other pitchers who's names have surfaced in rumors. there has been nothing to back these rumors however.    i personally suspect schilling did try steroids. he matches the pattern for pitchers. most pitchers caught using steroids have been pitchers on the edge. guys who are in serious danger of no longer staying in baseball. schilling was blasted in his first couple years in the rotation and was shifted to the bullpen with less than spectacular results. until he became a closer he was in real danger of being sent back to the minors. then he got another shot at the rotation and a few years later learned how to pitch effectively.  schilling had all the trademarks. bullpen pitcher, bounced from team to team, in danger of being pushed out of baseball and getting up in the years to where he was no longer considered a real prospect.   other big names with credible evidence against them include fred mcgriff and frank thomas.   luis gonzales is another name that's been rumored as a steroid user. nothing hard in evidence has ever surfaced against him. he was a long time teamate of caminitti and like caminitti suddenly had break out offensive years in their early 30s.   the classical steroid user changes are illustrated in derek lee's sudden fame. gary mathews is another. both after being given up on by multiple teams, on the edge of being bounced out of baseball suddenly have all 