Hardball on the recent PED brew, haha

[Snidely]

NBC's Hardball Talk, by Craig Calcaterra
( Jun 4, 2013, 11:04 PM EDT)

<http://tinyurl.com/hadballPED>

<quote>
Major League Baseball was hell-bent on hanging a few big-name players
out to dry. Major League Baseball decided that the most interesting and
important thing about steroids in baseball was who used and who didn’t
as opposed to what steroids meant, how they damaged the game and how
they damaged its users. It did that rather than asking the real
questions about PEDs. The ones that would make a difference. Questions
about PED habits. Players’ introduction to PEDs. Questions about their
actual impact. Questions about the culture of drugs in baseball that
could, hopefully, provide answers about how to stop it.
</quote>


Over at the Atlantic,
Matt Schiavenza thinks Selig is aocomplishing little more than wasting
any good reputation he's gained:
<http://tinyurl.com/SeligWindup>
<quote>
In his zeal to punish his players, Selig is cooperating with a
criminal whom the league was more than happy to sue just three months
ago. And, Selig is doing all this despite the fact that MLB
successfully implemented a testing and suspension regime that has
greatly reduced drug use at no cost to the game's popularity or
financial health. </quote>


In Prescott,
Jordan Kobritz isn't quite as negative:
<quote>
Don't hold your breath waiting for suspensions to follow MLB's actions.
They will be a long time coming, if ever. But that's not the point.
Selig has shown that MLB will do whatever it can to clean up the game,
even if those efforts will ultimately prove futile.
</quote>
<http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&ArticleID=120108>

I'm not quite sure how to classify the comments by Thomas Boswell at
the Washington Post; he seems to be both congratulating MLB for
pursuing the issue and saying it is only responding because it caught
before, and perhaps that it is patting itself on the back a little
strongly. But each time I try to pick a portion of the article to
paste in here for the flavor, I get frustrated because 2 consecutive
sentences seem to be 2 different directions.
<http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-06/sports/39789363_1_biogenesis-penalties-drug-testing>

Anyway, when do I get _my_ anti-aging treatments?

/dps

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virtuosity, currently soloing in obscurity in Mom's garage.
Bradley Wertheim, theAtlantic.com, Jan 10 2013

[M C Hamster]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:29:27 -0700, Snidely <snide...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I'm not quite sure how to classify the comments by Thomas Boswell at
>the Washington Post; he seems to be both congratulating MLB for
>pursuing the issue and saying it is only responding because it caught
>before, and perhaps that it is patting itself on the back a little
>strongly. But each time I try to pick a portion of the article to
>paste in here for the flavor, I get frustrated because 2 consecutive
>sentences seem to be 2 different directions.
><http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-06/sports/39789363_1_biogenesis-penalties-drug-testing>
>

I only had time to read one of the articles and it was this one, which
was, agreed, quite odd for lacking any coherent point of view. But in
particular I was curious who the "18 other big league players" were
who were under investigation in addition to Braun and Rodriguez. The
link goes to a story exonerating Gio Gonzalez, but doesn't mention the
other 18 players.

I presume none of these play for the Chicago Cubs. If they do, they
should certainly get their money back.
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