Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 01, 2007
GMs on Drugs

Major League Baseball expanded testing to include just about everybody:

A newly released and obtained 5-page memo from Commissioner Selig, outlining the breadth and width of attempts to eradicate drug use in MLB--including steroids--all personnel--players (Major and Minor League), non-players (Major and Minor League), Umpires (MLB), executives (Club front office personnel, managers, coaches, trainers), and the Office of the Commissioner (all employees of the Office of the Commissioner, MLB Enterprises, MLB Properties, MLB International, MLB Productions, and MLB Advanced Media)--will fall under the testing program as the players now currently have: unannounced testing for banned substances, including steroids.

Good. Now we can find out if Billy Beane's been jucing to keep the Athletics in contention. :-)

I guess this levels the playing field. The execs need to go through the same indignities as the players.

Hat tip, MetsBlog.com, which speculates:

...the $2,000,000 fine should raise eyebrows as to whether teams have attempted cover-ups of substance abuse...

You mean, maybe Oakland or San Francisco knew what was going on with their players? Where's Claude Rains when you need him!

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DAng...from the name of the blog, I totally got the wrong idea...thought that some GM might've been caught with drugs too or something lol.

Posted by: Yamen at March 2, 2007 02:05 AM

re: claude rains, casablanca & chinatown

Yeah, they can round up the usual suspects, but in the end, someone's going to turn to Jake and say "it's chinatown, Jake, just let it alone" or words to that effect.

the basebasll steroid scandal makes the la water supply conspiracy of 40's LA in chinatown or the resistance fighting escape from casablanca intrigues of bogart and bergman seem simple by comparison.

--arthur j kyriazis, philly

Posted by: arthur john kyriazis at March 2, 2007 05:28 AM
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