The opposite could also be true. Brack didn't think he was good enough and needed the extra push steroids would give him to even play at that level. I don't follow why it has to be more severe when you get closer to the majors.

Exactly. An independent leaguer using steroids doesn't tell us anything about major leaguers one way or the other -- merely that steroids aren't that difficult to come by. Which we already knew.

I think the minor leagues have a pretty strong steriod testing policy, what with the players not being part of the MLBPA until they hit the show. It almost makes sense a guy would risk his long term help for a standout season or two in an independent league if it gets him a chance with an affiliated league.

I agree with Larry that what Brack does in the NE League tells us nothing about widespread steroid use in the majors.

NE League isn't part of the National Agreement, so they'd have to have their own testing policy. Considering the nature of these leagues, I doubt there's any testing policy, it would probably cost way too much to implement.

When I worked for an independent league team, they had me work as a parking lot attendant, usher, field crew, scoreboard operator, announcer and official scorer. Some of these teams are pretty low-budget.

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All it proves is there's at least one idiot playing indy ball.

Danyy Klassen (Greece) and Andy Burnside (Australia) play for the Mudhens (Detroit AAA). They haven't tested positive (else it'd be frontpage news here in Toledo), so it looks like AAA is mostly clean.

And can we delete the *^% spam?

Yeah, there are a lot more minor leaguers in the Olympics than just the two "Greek" players who tested positive. Aren't almost all of the Greek team in the minors?

BTW, I see that Cuba won the gold. Australia gets the silver, and Japan the bronze. One of these days I'd like to go to an Olympic baseball game just to heckle the Cubans.

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I've lost all confidence that people are clean. I used to think there were just a few people who took drugs, but I am convinced now that if not everybody, almost everybody does. Check the Olympics: Women's shot put winner disqualified. Men's hammer throw winner caught with a urine replacement bag (Gattaca anyone?) Two Greek track and field stars evading controls. I think it's just hopeless. These people will stop at nothing.

So if that happens in a place with strict mandatory testing as the Olympics, what would happen in baseball where testing is spotty at best? These are people who would train for a year for an increase of .010 in batting average. Do you think they will stop at moral issues if they can get that average up with a pill or a shot? I don't. If it gives them an edge, they will do it.

It is really hopeless.

I like how the spam kinda can't decide which language it wants to be in.

Guys desperately trying to make the show are certainly more likely to exhaust any and all efforts to do so. Guys in the show are desperately trying to stay there, but I think it's a different kind of desperation, and they also have huge advantages in nutrition, coaching, strength training, etc..

Overall, MLB players (as well as NBA and NFL players) probably get the most support at reaching and staying at their peak of physical ability of any human beings in the world ever have. Some of them cheat, just as some people cheat in virtually every walk of life. To suggest that athletes cheat more than anyone else, (in regular life we see that cheating just isn't that prevalent), flies in the face of common sense. It flies in the face of our conventions of common decency and fairness.

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