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MLB and the Players Union,business as usual? - 8/8/2009 11:00:49 AM

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OMG Major league Baseball,apparently in concert with,The Players Association is once again up to old tricks as far as steroids are concerned.They have issuesd statements today that essentially give all the players on the famous list a fall back position.The union is asserting that due to the court order the players don't have access to what substance they were found positive for(this of course flies in the face of the fact that all players found positive were notified in 2003...and presumably told what substance they were busted with) For the leagues part they issued a statement casting doubt on the whole thing by stating they only had 96 names and the feds have 103...thereby placing in doubt any name that comes up.The discrepancy in the numbers is explained by the fact that the Feds added information obtained from the Balco investigation to add names to the list.Names that had one way or another managed to avoid detection in the original sampling.

All of this done moments before Ortiz's press conference in which he promised to "get to the bottom of this"...he can now either hide behind legalities...or outright claim innocence..

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RE: MLB and the Players Union,business as usual? - 8/8/2009 2:57:35 PM

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Perhaps I'm out of touch..if the disinterest exhibited here is any indication...perhaps it is actually true....fans don't care what these guys do to gain an edge.As long as the balls keep flying out of the park....all good.
High School athletes emulating these guys ,records cheapened by their drug enhanced numbers...and no reaction from CollarMe Nation....oh well.

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RE: MLB and the Players Union,business as usual? - 8/9/2009 2:24:03 AM

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The sad reality is it all comes down to money, for both the players and the teams.

Take steroids for a few years, build up your stats, sign the big contract and you are set for life.

The teams looked the other way until Congress started getting involved because the home run records and performance increases drove attendance up.

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RE: MLB and the Players Union,business as usual? - 8/10/2009 4:13:09 AM

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Not a good development. And my first thought is that this is all about the money and product endorsements.

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