Critics Debate If '03 MLB Testing Results Should Be Made Public
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Debate Continues Over Whether '03 Drug
Test Results Should Be Made Public |
In the wake of the N.Y. Times report that former MLBer Sammy Sosa has joined Yankees 3B Alex Rodirguez as being among the 104 MLB players that failed a test for performance-enhancing drugs during MLB's survey testing in '03, columnists and TV analysts continue to debate whether the remainder of the list should be revealed. In Tacoma, Dave Boling writes MLB should "just go ahead and release all the names." Turning over the full list "wouldn't be stirring up the mud, it would be clearing the air." Boling: "Please tell us we are not going to have to go through this 100 more times" (Tacoma NEWS TRIBUNE, 6/18). In Toronto, Richard Griffin writes, "This drawn-out litany of guilt is baseball's version of the infamous water torture. Drip, drip, drip. When will it stop? We're all going insane" (TORONTO STAR, 6/18). ESPN’s John Kruk: "They should get the names out. All these players now are complaining that, 'We’re lumped in with the steroid era. We’re clean. We’re playing the game clean.' ... It’s supposed to have been anonymous. It’s not. The names are being leaked out by someone, so if they’re going to be leaked out and eventually they’re going to come out, somehow, somewhere down the line, get them all out now." But ESPN’s Buster Olney said, "I totally disagree with you. They should keep the names private because that’s what they were meant to be. ... Imagine in your own work place, if your boss said to you, 'Hey, we’re doing a test. We’re doing a survey. Don’t worry, no one will ever find out about it.'" Olney: "It comes down to this: two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because two names have gotten out, I wouldn’t throw the other 100 names out there." Reds manager Dusty Baker: "I don’t know what’s best at this point because I’m a bit confused about the whole thing. Why only one or two names if there is a leak?" ("Baseball Tonight," ESPN, 6/17). In Boston, Bob Ryan notes MLB Commissioner Bud Selig's belief that the "emphasis should be on the future ... makes sense," but baseball is "more about the great continuum of past and present than any other American sport" (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/18).
ANOTHER BLACK MARK: Houston Chronicle columnist Richard Justice said of Sosa's name being leaked, "This is a real embarrassing thing for the (MLBPA). They were charged with destroying the samples. They did not. I believe they didn't do it because they wanted to challenge the validity of the samples and get the positive tests below the benchmark of mandatory testing and in doing that and not destroying the tests, they have done real damage" ("Outside The Lines," ESPN, 6/17). SI.com's Jon Heyman said the union "should never have had a list." Heyman: "If there was a list, they should have burned it, ripped it up, thrown it away right away. … It's just the biggest mistake the union's ever made" ("Jim Rome Is Burning," ESPN, 6/17).
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