CalPolyTechnique
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You are dodging the point. Yes, they test now after a major scandal that included Congressional Hearings. How enlightened of them.
When players started juicing it was patently obvioius and a major point of discussion. MLB wasn't "behind on testing", they didn't test at all and actively promoted the spectacle of a skinny LF like Sammy Sosa suddenly chasing the HR record. MLB spent years NOT testing because they were making billions of dollars off of it.
When it was really clear players were juicing, MLB willfully turned a blind eye because they were making money hand over fist. There is no debate about it, it wasn't being "behind on testing". But if Roger Goodell has a HOF Owner challenging his demands of 50 Million per year (plus a private jet) and he isn't going to whisper in the ears of people working for him?
Seriously?
You're helping yourself to hindsight.
Baseball at the time (circa early 2000s) did not have the internal penalty protocols in place to even suspend players first-time positive tests of performance-enhancing drugs in 2003
"Baseball management's drug policy prohibited the use of steroids without a valid prescription since 1991, but the enforceability of those rules was repeatedly questioned by the union, which did not reach a drug agreement until August 2002.
There were no penalties for a positive test in 2003 -- those were survey tests conducted to determine if it was necessary to impose mandatory random drug testing across the major leagues in 2004."
http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=4264062
That's (the article link) is a proper retelling of the events.
You want to simply jump from "hey, that guy clearly looks like he's on steroids!" to "there's a MLB conspiracy," as if in reality the players' union, investigation, fact-finding, et cetera, didn't all factor into how this issue evolved.
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