The Next Big Scandal That is About to Break...

[Millard Baker]

Remember when it was announced last year that MLB would anonymously test all baseball players to investigate the extent of the AAS 'problem' in the sport?

Players were notified months in advance, yet 5-7 percent still failed the test.

Guess what?

The tests were not anonymous.

And the feds are (il)legally in posession of that info.

Given the number of leaks thus far, it wouldn't surpise me if we were to see that list in the press in the coming months.

As many as 100+ athletes could potentially be outed.

[bg65]

I would bet all that I own that Sosa was using

[KCSMAN]

hell ya he was. no question asked. if they waned to test all athletes in every sport. i bet at least 50% would not pass. they need to face it as long as there are sports there will be steroids.

[novicebb]

Originally Posted by administrator

Remember when it was announced last year that MLB would anonymously test all baseball players to investigate the extent of the AAS 'problem' in the sport?

Players were notified months in advance, yet 5-7 percent still failed the test.

Guess what?

The tests were not anonymous.

And the feds are (il)legally in posession of that info.

Given the number of leaks thus far, it wouldn't surpise me if we were to see that list in the press in the coming months.

As many as 100+ athletes could potentially be outed.

Thats no big whoop. Even if it wasn't legally in the possesion of authorities, I am sure that it would still be leaked and appear in the papers. I don't think that it will be that big of a story unless a majority of those 5-7% that failed are high paid stars and superstars. If it is someone such as Rafeal Furcal, Jose Hernadez, Kevin Millwood,Polanco Hernadez or players of those calibers are announced as users, I don't believe it will be a big whoopla. Most of us believe that the usage is higher than that. Especially those that know a thing or two about AAS usage. Most of these athletes I believe are either abusing AAS or aren't be properly educated and advised on usage. If you are taking the right AAS, cycling correctly and you are in a league that at that time had no testing or even off-season testing, shouldn't even be that high of a percentage of players getting caught.

[madman]

I thought the failure rate on the test was around 40%. I know to do away with the testing they had to stay under 5% but from what I think I remember MLB player blew away the minimum.

[sixpack9]

Did anyone see Sean Salisbury on ESPN after the Bonds/Giambi thing broke? He said that when he came into the NFL he witnessed a couple of players inject in front of him and that the pressure was there to do it but he refrained. He insinuated that steroid use was rampant in the NFL when he came up in the 80's. However, he said he now believes steroid use is less than 1% or possibly 0% in the NFL today due to the random testing and the NFL's drug policy. I guess he didn't talk to David Boston!

[Edbaseball]

They all laughed at Jose Canseco when he stated after retiring that approx. 70% of all major leaguers were on one type of steroid or another! I believed him then and still do today!