So I'm not really a fan of baseball because I think it's boring (the most exciting part of going to a ball game for me is at PNC Park when the Pierogies race) but I've been reading about the steroid testing thing. Since Spring Training has started (I'm pretty sure), I thought maybe we could discuss these drugging problems.
Here's an article from today in the NY Daily News:
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[Donald Fehr] doesn't want to talk about the 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in the survey season of 2003. No, he want to talk about the "94%" of his players who were clean at the time. This is the same approach Derek Jeter took the other day, and with good reason. If it is true that Jeter has never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, then he is one of the innocent who weren't protected by a union that in the end couldn't even protect the guilty.
But Fehr, who runs this union, talking about that 94% is disingenuous at best. He sounds like Bill Clinton talking about all the interns he left alone.
More than anything, Fehr tries to do something everybody would like to do now in baseball: rewrite the record book. Only it is too big a job for him as it relates to his own record, and that of Gene Orza, his sideman at the union. There are too many facts that keep getting in Fehr's way, and not just about 5% of his members testing positive for drugs in a year when they knew they were going to be tested.
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That's not the whole article and there's a whole lot more out there about this.
So, baseball fans, I would like to know what your take is. Do you think steroid use muddies the image of the MLB franchises? Do you think it's a significant problem or that a few players are ruining it for everyone? What do you think of retroactive steroid testing? What is the real role of Congress in all of this?
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