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Bud Selig Defends MLB Steroid Testing
Major League Baseball commissioner said Tuesday he does not expect to be called as a witness in either Barry Bonds’ or Roger Clemens’ pending federal perjury trials.
Selig, appearing as a guest on Dan Patrick’s radio/television talk show, said he was “saddened” by the indictments against Clemens and Bonds, but added that the two former players’ cases aren’t matters for baseball.
“Those are cases between those people and the government and really have nothing to do with baseball, per se,” said Selig.
Clemens, who was indicted Monday in Washington, faces charges that he lied to Congress in testimony about his alleged use of steroids, while Bonds is accused of lying to a federal grand jury, also about performance-enhancing drug usage. Both are scheduled to be tried early next year. Read More >>
MLB Hosts DEA Backing in Fight Against PE Drugs
With a focus on fighting performance enhancing drugs, officials from all facets of professional sports including those from the MLB met with the Drug Enforcement Administration held at the Office of the MLB Commissioner, Bud Selig in Milwaukee. The forth said meeting hosted by the MLB as the sport most affected by scandal as well as others looking to avoid further issues.
Among those attending included Bud Selig and Dan Mullin, Senior Vice President of Major League Baseball’s Department of Investigations, represented Major League Baseball.
“Major League Baseball is very pleased that these joint meetings with the Drug Enforcement Administration have been so beneficial for each of the organizations in attendance,” said Commissioner Selig. “The shared resources and the collaborative nature of the relationship between our leagues and the government are essential to the long-term efforts to rid sports of performance-enhancing substances. Our game will always remain vigilant on all fronts in the fight against performance-enhancing drugs.” Read More >>
Is the Jim Parque HGH case different?
Admitting that he used human-growth hormone going into the 2003 season, but for a different reason then one initailly asumes when hearing about baseball and performance enhancing drugs. Jim Parque admitted to taking HGH but said he used it to overcome a shoulder injury.
The former pitcher for the White Sox and Tampa Bay admitted, “I’m Jim Parque, former major-league pitcher, and I took human growth hormone.”
“With my career in jeopardy, I turned to performance-enhancing drugs, like some other players did,” Parque wrote for the Sun-Times. “I never had needed them before, but with a shoulder that wouldn’t heal, it was realistically the only thing I could turn to.”
But certainly in the case of Jim Parque, it is being looked at as if he came forward, and admitted something that he had felt guilty about. As if it is more noble.
Bud Selig’s Proposed Drug Suspension Change
With the advent of the recent events including Manny Ramirez suspension turned MLB minors training camp shed some light on MLB commissioner Bud Selig’s feeling on the current drug suspension rulings.
“It’s a negotiated solution, but to be candid, I believe that should be changed,’’ Selig said. “Their logic was OK — look, guys get hurt, they can go out on rehab, and so and so forth. But I think that’s something we need to really change in the next labor negotiation.”
Manny Ramírez, who recently served a 50-game suspension for having a prescription for a banned female fertility drug that hides the effects of steroids.
Ramirez hCG Prescription Scapegoat denies
Dr. Pedro P. Bosch had been linked to the Manny Ramirez investigation, and was being looked into the DEA. How did he fit into the picture exactly? It was said that he was the source of the prescribed drug Manny Ramirez was caught taking to hide his use of steroids.
Manny Ramirez had stated after the accidental uncovering, “Recently I saw a physician for a personal health issue. He gave me a medication, not a steroid, which he thought was OK to give me. Unfortunately, the medication was banned under our drug policy. Under the policy that mistake is now my responsibility. I have been advised not to say anything more for now. I do want to say one other thing; I’ve taken and passed about 15 drug tests over the past five seasons. I want to apologize to Mr. McCourt, Mrs. McCourt, Mr. Torre, my teammates, the Dodger organization, and to the Dodger fans. LA is a special place to me and I know everybody is disappointed. So am I. I’m sorry about this whole situation.”
The investigation has become complex, yet it only looks to get harder for both the MLB and the DEA as they seek the truth in this matter, despite Bosch breaking his silence the facts remain to be uncovered. Ramirez whom is looking to focus on the future in completion of his 50 game suspension may not be able to shake the fact that he is now part of a bigger investigation that will only continue to carry his name.
“ESPN even ran a clip showing me as I was leaving my office and getting into my car,” Bosch said in a statement issued through a Miami publicist. “I consider the allegations of ESPN outrageous and slanderous, and issue this statement to correct the misrepresentations made by ESPN.”
Michael Weiner Heading UP to the MLBPA
Michael Weiner has been named the head of the MLBPA executive board, successor to Donald Fehr, with a unanimous decision by way of players, managers, coaches and trainers alike.
“I am honored to have the confidence and backing of the executive board, and I look forward to talking to the full membership to discuss the future of the union and answer any questions they may have,” Weiner said.
This has been an official vote but wil not officially take office until after the executive board meets again after the current MLB season to formally announce him into the position.
As a 20 year veteran of teh union, Weiner has already been accustomed to the ins and outs that the position woud entail with his role in salary arbitration, collective bargaining negotiations, and the implementation of baseball’s drug-testing program.
Fehr himself predicts a “pretty seamless transition. The people on the other side know him well, have known him for a long time, know he’s very smart and very thorough, and know he’ll be very professional to deal with,” Fehr said. “But they also know he understands the interests of the players, and he’ll do his damndest to make sure those interests are served.”
MLB Steroid Leverage
Sosa and Palmeiro have made their statements officially known after having testified to the House Government Reform Committee about the conduct as a player for the game of baseball and that using steroids was cheating, but what does this mean?
Baseballs first black eye were the the 60 plus years of segregation, now proceeded only by the MLB league wide phenomenon thought of only as greed over integrity. What has quite literally been a turn your cheek mentality until it is so far in your face you can only hope to redirect the question or assume ignorance.
“Performance enhancing drugs will always be a problem,” said Selig. “We don’t have a test for HGH. We are trying. We are spending a lot of money (trying to develop a test), but I am comfortable with where we are. People say we should have known, but 20 years later it is easy to be smart.’”
MLB DEA Team Up
MLB president Bob DuPuy confirmed the leagues cooperation with the DEA investigation. Federal investigation into how Manny Ramirez obtained hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) which became a banned substance from the MLB last year because of the masking effects it has on detecting steroid use.
Allegedly doctor Pedro Publio Bosch and his son Anthony Bosch, said to be the middle man between the doctor and Ramirez, are the focus of the investigation and whether or not Dr. Bosch is the source of other illegally obtained prescriptions.
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