There's no rewriting the chapter in Major League Baseball history on performance-enhancing drugs.
The rampant use and blind eye to testing will forever taint the 1990s and early 2000s, when so many longstanding records were obliterated by genetically engineered super-humans.
That was reinforced yesterday when Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa and others failed to gain election to the Hall of Fame.?
But the league and players' union came to the table today and took a step toward righting those wrongs.
MLB announced that players would be tested for human growth hormone throughout the regular season and there would be increased efforts to detect abnormal levels of testosterone.
"This is a proud and a great day for baseball," commissioner Bud Selig said following two days of owners' meetings. "We'll continue to be a leader in this field and do what we have to do."
The announcement was not just a breakthrough for the game of baseball, it was a big step forward in owner-player negotiations. In less than a decade, the MLB players' union turned an anti-testing stance into the most thorough testing in all of sports.
The players' concerns were justified. The thoughts of frequently getting pricked with a needle or being falsely outed by an inaccurate test are troubling. But the players opted for what's best for the game, not just what's best for them.
Maybe the Hall of Fame embarrassment played a part in the negotiations. Maybe it didn't. That would be another case where players can't rewrite recent history, but they can avoid repeating it.
Source: http://www.pennlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/01/major_league_baseball_cant_rew.html
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