Posted on 03/20/2005 2:16:15 PM PST by Coastal
Despite pressure from a Congressional committee, Major League Baseball is intent on allowing its newly re-written drug policy to work before seeking any more changes from the players association, Commissioner Bud Selig said at a press gathering at HoHoKam Park on Saturday.
A year after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his Senate Commerce Committee told Selig and union chief executives Don Fehr to toughen baseball's steroid-testing program, the top ranking members of the House Government Reform Committee told them to do it again at the end of an 11-hour hearing on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
MLB responded to Congress by negotiating tougher penalties and more random tests in the existing policy late last year, finally signing off on the new deal in January.
"There are a lot of people, including people in our medical group, who think this program will work very well," Selig said. "Look, would I like tougher penalties? I would. They asked me about federal legislation and it's something that baseball would not object to. But in life you have to deal with reality and this is a subject of collective bargaining. This is the program we have."
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the top ranking Democrat on the committee, proposed that MLB support legislation that would adopt strict national penalties for failed drug tests from the professional level down to the high school level. And some MLB owners have been talking since the hearings about adopting the stricter Olympic program with its wider array of banned drugs.
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Shame on Selig and MLB.
No surprise here.
He is so clueless. Baseball has been ruined. The last 10 years of records are bogus. He will be flushed like the t*rd that he is.
Calling for Selig's resignation!!
Bud Selig's campaign contributions (detail)
$2,000 Republican
$40,000 Democrat
$10,000 soft money
$1,000 special interest
total: $53,000
I'm willing to accept steroids as part of the modern game if only players will admit to it, and bring it out into the open.
Steroids are delicious. They taste just like chicken.
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