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He denied them specifically in an interview with Bob Costas within the past year. Give me a little time, and I'll come up with the quote.

No need to. It was "No". He said he was getting tired of being asked. But he is still against a testing program for baseball and for him. Till that changes, baseball will still have a steroid problem.

OK, thanks. I believe that the Players Association will eventually agree to the drug testing program - they will have to.

Which leads us to the general question of drug testing. I am fortunate enough to be self-employed. Well, I did it on purpose. Even though I work much longer hours than the average office worker, and have to MAKE myself take a day off when I've got pending projects, it's a choice I gladly made. For one thing, I do not, and will never, have employees. When I divide up the mail for the suckers ... other building tenants with employees, I see all the directives from the State of California, including drug testing.

I don't do drugs, unless you count Long Island Iced Teas as such. I will probably never have to be asked to partake in a blood test, unless I get ramp checked some time. But I have a distinct distaste for drug testing in professions where life and limb are not at risk. Bus drivers? Airline pilots? Air traffic controllers? Amtrak engineers? OK, go ahead. I don't want my jaunt on the Starlight Express come to grief because the engineer is toking.

But the guy in the mailroom? Sheesh. Remember when it seemed like a good idea to send the smokers outdoors? Not too long a path to the attempts to tax fast food, is it?

But that's a whole different discussion.

So, who knows why Barry Bonds isn't calling for steroid testing in the MLB? Maybe it's for reasons other than CYA. I don't dare speculate. Perhaps he has philosophical objections to drug testing.

BTW, there is a difference between the supplements that Mark McGwire took and steroids.

And steroids don't enable a batter, like Bonds, to drive a pitch up the middle off the pitchers whose SOLE JOB is to get Barry Bonds out. Mike Myers is about to lose his job if he keeps that up.