Report To Detail Drug Use In Baseball
A long-awaited report on steroid and performance-enhancing drug use in Major League Baseball, which is to be released today, will lay blame at all levels of the sport for a widespread drug problem and call for drastic changes in the league's drug-testing program, according to sources briefed on the investigation. At least 60 current and former players, including past winners of the league's Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards, are expected to be implicated in the 300-page document.
George J. Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader who has led the probe since his appointment by Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig in March 2006, is expected to call for MLB to outsource its drug-testing program to a state-of-the-art independent agency, immediately create an investigative arm to pursue allegations or evidence of performance-enhancing drug use among players, and add an education component to the program, several sources said.
The report will show that the performance-enhancing drug use is more rampant among pitchers than position players, but Mitchell will try to play down the names mentioned in an attempt to steer attention to the enormity of baseball's drug problem and the need for changes, one of the sources said.
The sources, who had been briefed on the contents of the report but had not seen it, declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the information. The sources declined to discuss names listed in the report.
You gotta be kidding me, did you read that last line? You would think we were talking about a CIA informant discussing the “family jewels”
I have few rather cynical thoughts on the topic(imagine that).
1. As a fan do(should) I really care if athletes are on steroids? Or am I only desiring to see the best possible athletic performance I can see, for the insane amount of money I paid for these tickets, and if performance enhancing drugs are how I get to see the best performance so be it.
2. Are the records set by ‘roid boys valid? Well if the batter is on ‘roids, the pitcher is on ‘roids and the outfielders are all on ‘roids sounds like a level playing field to me and I as the fan get more for my money.
3. How is Bobble Head Barry being on steroids any different then Tiger Woods having Lasik done, neither one of them is OEM any longer.
