Just chiming in to say AMEN.
And I'm also getting sick of this 2003 report. If it was legally agreed to be an ANONYMOUS test with ANONYMOUS results, then why are we hearing about SPECIFICS and NAMES ??
And why NOW as opposed to years ago?
Why one or two names at a time?
And most importantly, why at all ? To my understanding, these were findings related to substances that hadn't even been banned YET in 2003. They were the findings that led MLB to increase the list of banned substances LATER, once they had determined what other substances were becoming popular among these players.
But bottom line, if these substances hadn't been banned yet, what's is all this sensationalism over?
The NYT loves anonymous sources, and leaking secret information. They loved leaking top secret information during the Bush administration even if it hurt national security. I don't expect any leaks happening during the Obama years. Smearing Big Papi and Manny is just SOP.
All that anonymity resulted from one of the stupider moves in sports history. MLB finally decided that indeed steroids should be against the rules, and there should be testing, but because Selig is so weak he couldn’t push the PA to agree to having any punishment or even reporting. So they did all these tests, and all these players failed, and the end result of it was nothing. Actually worse than nothing, now that the “big report” has come out and said there were 100+ players that failed it’s caused all stats from that time to be doubted, creating a level of guilt for all players. They should never have agree to all the anonymity in the first place and should just go ahead and publish the list.
Must be a leaker somewhere, and other than gossip I have no idea why names would be leaked since apparently there will be no penalties from 2003 levied.