How can I clean up these anchor points created with Object/Blend/Steps without messing up the rest?

Creating a drop-shadown effect on text using Object/Blend/Steps. When expanded it leaves the steps as paths. I'm hoping there might be an easy way to get rid if these? (there's a lot of them to do manually) Object/Path/Simply won't do it without messing up the entire path. 

Any magicians out there? 🙂