MLB Executive Council Approves Drug Testing Amendments

By Eric Fisher, Staff Writer, SportsBusiness Journal

Selig Says MLB Meeting Objective Of Having Toughest Drug Policy Possible

COMMUNITY SERVICE: Selig yesterday strongly hinted that punishment in the form of community service had been meted out to some baseball execs in connection with the Mitchell Report's findings, but stopped short of definitively saying so. In the Mitchell Report, Giants Managing General Partner Peter Magowan told Mitchell he and GM Brian Sabean did not properly follow through on suspicions of alleged steroid use by Barry Bonds. "I spent many months debating all that, and the important thing was to move forward," Selig said. "However, I think when somebody is asked to do many, many hours of community service, that's what we should do. We're trying to stop the use of all these things, working on it, and doing community service to me was a more meaningful mechanism [than suspensions] to solve the problem. ... I've said, and I think it's been misunderstood, that anybody disciplined is doing a lot of community service. And I think most people involved believe that that was their discipline."

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