Roid's In Baseball

Well another day, another baseball player comes out and says he used 'Roids. Shocking. Like a lot of people I'm disappointed. No, that's notr true. I'm pretty damn upset but baseball did it to itself and Selig telling Christy Brennan with USA Today that he's thinking of suspending A-Roid http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/brennan/2009-02-11-bud-selig-steroids-baseball_N.htm is just flat out silly. It was supposed to be confidential. The argument of his 97 report is a joke since he wrote then turned a blind eye and had to know what was going on in the game. But that's a conversation for another day.
The point is I know it was illegal in the country and illegal in other sports but it wasn't in baseball. At least not formally once they threw out Fay Vincent. What the dirty car salesman should do (besides retire in shame for ruining the game) is get up and say enough is enough. We're testing everyone and we're doing random tests every week. They are testing for HGH and they are testing for everything. It needs to be like the Olympics. What could the players union say? --No. We refuse testing since all of the stars have come out and said they need it to perform.

What leg do they have to stand on? This is something I've never understand. If the average person has to pass a drug test for work why the hell shouldn't a professional athlete? Hell you don't hear the arguments in other sport. No you only hear it in baseball because Donald the Tyrant hates the owners so much he won't give a leg. I do enjoy the irony of A-Roid being brought down because the union screwed him. Way to go Orza. Way to be so concerned about your 10 Balco guys that you have ruined (or soon to ruin) 104 of your players. Well done. But I digress. My point if I had to take a drug test to work at freaking Taco Bell there is no reason why the players shouldn't. And if Selig comes out and actually takes a stance and demands it (something I would find as shocking as a HR king actually being clean) how could the Union possibly fight it?

So my hope is that Selig for once will actually come out with force and take a hard line and force the testing issue. Use the public sentiment for something useful that will actually clean up the game and not live in the blind past you helped create. Force mandatory testing, including HGH, for all players at least twice during the year. Oh and this time how about you don't warn the players they are being tested. Then maybe you can have one bright mark on your tenure as commish besides cheating tax payers out of money to build all brand new stadiums which you always brag about as one of your biggest accomplishments. But that's a conversation for another day.